It takes a lot of Courage to maintain a successful small business in San Francisco for 52 years.
San Francisco is losing one of its genuine landmark restaurants.
The owners deserve their well earned retirement.
After 52 years serving customers in the outer Richmond District of San Francisco Pacific Cafe will close its doors for the last time on August 30th.
We have dined at this restaurant many times. It’s a sad occasionand a loss for San Francisco.
Excerpted from The San Francisco Chronicle 8.28.2026
In recent weeks, customers have lined up for hours, even longer than the usual wait, for a table at Pacific Cafรฉ in San Francisco, hoping for one last bite of crab-stuffed petrale sole and a final complimentary pour of wine before the Richmond District mainstay closed.
Co-owners Frank Gundry and Ross Warren recently announced that Sunday, Aug. 30, will be their last day of service, after putting the restaurant up for sale for $195,000 this spring so they can retire. At least one potential buyer is interested in preserving the business as Pacific Cafรฉ, said Gundry, who started as a waiter soon after it opened in 1974 and became co-owner in 2014. But Gundry, 78, and Warren, 80, arenโt willing to wait for negotiations to go through to retire โ nor are longtime staff members, host Roy Manabat, 80, and cooks Jian Huang and Roger Li, who are both in their late 60s, Gundry said. Without a buyer in place, the future of the restaurant as regulars know it remains unclear.
โWeโve been so busy and swamped you hardly have time to get your bearings,โ Gundry said. โWe didnโt realize how popular we were.โ
Pacific Cafรฉ hostess Maureen Fitzsimons and co-owner Frank Gundry check in with customers waiting for a table outside the restaurant.Heather Diehl/For the S.F. Chronicle
Pacific Cafe at the corner of Gear Blvd and 34th Avenue on its last weekend – photo Lee Heidhues
The crowd of diners waiting for the last call at Pacific Cafe – photo Lee Heidhues
The staff of Pacific Cafรฉ in 1978, including then-server and now co-owner Frank Gundry, front right.Courtesy of Frank Gundry
Pacific Cafe. CLOSED – photo Lee Heidhues
It takes a lot of Courage to maintain a successful small business in San Francisco for 52 years.
The blogger knows words cannot describe the horror of the Balkan wars over 30 years ago. The architect is dead. I hope Ratko Mladic does not Rest in Peace.He may have been convicted by the International Criminal Tribunal and perished in Prison.
Being permitted to live out his life in prison was not an adequate punishmentfor his war crimes.
Journalist Chris Hedges. He’s been covering the Bosnian conflict for the New York Times and offers insight to the current political and social atmosphere in the former Yugoslavia. This week marks the anniversary of the slaughter of thousands of Muslims in Srebrenica as they were attempting to retreat from the Serbs. Investigators from the international war crimes tribunal are currently exhuming the graves of that former U.N. “safe area.
Excerpted from The New York Times 8.27.2026
Ratko Mladic, the former Bosnian Serb general whose actions during the Balkan wars of the 1990s led to him being called the โButcher of Bosniaโ and who was held responsible for Europeโs deadliest massacre since World War II, the killing of some 8,000 Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica in 1995, has died in custody in The Hague. He was 83.
The Srebrenica massacre,[a] also known as the Srebrenica genocide,[b][8] was the July 1995 genocidal killing[9] of more than 8,000[10]Bosniak men and boys in and around the town of Srebrenica during the Bosnian War.[11] It was mainly perpetrated by units of the Bosnian Serb Army of Republika Srpska under Ratko Mladiฤ, though the Serb paramilitary unit Scorpions also participated.[6][12] In addition, 25,000 to 30,000 Bosniaks, mainly women and children, were abused and forcibly moved out of Srebrenica. The massacre constitutes the first legally recognised genocide in Europe since the end of World War II.[13]Srebrenica massacre – Wikipedia
Theย Srebrenica massacre,[a]ย also known as theย Srebrenica genocide,[b][8]ย was the July 1995ย genocidalย killing[9]ย of more than 8,000[10]
His death was announced on Thursday by Serbian state media. The authorities at The Hague said he died while hospitalized there, but did not provide a specific cause of death.
Mr. Mladic was captured on May 26, 2011, in a farming village north of Belgrade, Serbiaโs capital, after almost 16 years as a fugitive, ending one of the longest manhunts in modern history. His 2017 conviction by an international tribunal on charges of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes marked the end of a dark and bloody chapter.
More than 30 years after the end of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992-1995), Srebrenica remains emblematic of its brutality. And no one is more closely linked to the genocide that took place in the small town in eastern Bosnia than Ratko Mladic, the former commander-in-chief of the Bosnian Serb army.
Although the United Nations had declared Srebrenica a “safe area,” Bosnian Serb forces attacked the town. Within just a few days in July 1995, they expelled women and children, then killed more than 8,300 unarmed Muslim boys and men in the nearby village of Potocari โ on Mladic’s direct orders, according to the verdict handed down by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague 22 years later.
At the time, Srebrenica was the largest massacre in Europe since World War II.
At the time, Srebrenica was the largest massacre in Europe since World War II. The ICTY classified it as genocide. Mladic was also held responsible for other war crimes beyond the Srebrenica genocide. Under his command, the years-long siege of Sarajevo began at the start of the war. The city was shelled for more than 40 months, killing around 11,000 people, including more than 1,600 children.
Mladic always claimed that he targeted only military objectives. But numerous reports and intercepted radio communications indicate that civilian facilities and residential areas were also deliberately attacked. Around 100,000 people were killed during the four-year war in Bosnia, while some 2.2 million were driven from their homes in cities and villages across the country, half of its total population at the time.
Full disclosure. The blogger admits he eats an occasional cheeseburger.
The treatment of cattle is cruel and unusual.
The average consumer does not see the cruelty of the slaughterhouse when shopping for beef at the neighborhood supermarket. The beef is nicely packaged in plastic or served up by the ‘butcher’ behind the counter.
Now Donald Trump, a notorious consumer of McDonald’s cheeseburgers, has signed an Order to permit more beef imports. He expects sky high consumer beef prices to drop. The beef industry is in an uproar. It’s just a ploy to boost his floundering presidency before the November 3rd midterm election. Just 69 days away.
The beef is nicely packaged in plastic or served up by the ‘butcher’ behind the counter.
Donald Trump, a notorious consumer of McDonald’s cheeseburgers
Excerpted from Wisconsin State Farmer 8.26.2026
Beef prices have inched upward near record highs, with cattle numbers in their lowest in 75 years due to ranchers culling herds due to years-long droughts that dried up grazing lands and drove up feed prices. The advance of the New World screwworm forced U.S. officials to close the border to Mexican beef, further tightening supplies. Reuters reported that U.S. meatpackers have beenย shutteringย processing plants in response to soaring cattle costs.
Cattle futures fell to eight-month lows shortly after President Donald Trump announced on Aug. 21 plans to allow up to 300,000 metric tons of ground beef imports into the United States at reduced tariff rates in an effort to lower consumer prices.
The Oklahoma Farm Report noted that live cattle futures fell $3 to $4 per hundredweight and feeder cattle futures dropped $3 to $6 per hundredweight Friday morning, immediately following Trump’s declaration on Truth Social that beef imports would be “sold at 25% below current market prices”. By market close, however, many contracts had recovered much of those losses.
At a time when U.S. cattle numbers are at historic lows and ranchers are slowly rebuilding herds after years of drought, high input costs, and disease-related trade disruptions, the administration’s move has triggered pushback from farm and ranch groups and Republican lawmakers who are often aligned with the president on agricultural policy. Many warned that the move could weaken cattle markets, slow herd rebuilding, and benefit meatpackers more than producers.
Criticism was notable coming from Montana Republican Sen. Tim Sheehy, who represents one of the nation’s top cattle-producing states.
“I’ve advised President Trump against this course of action for a year because American ranchers have been struggling against packer monopoly for decades and this will harm them…” Sheehy posted on X. “This action will make it more difficult for American ranchers to rebuild our herd and bring prices down for the American people.”
This entire story is ridiculous on several distinct levels.
Not the least will be the pious hand wringing and finger wagging directed towards 49ers owner Jed York. A foolish act? Given that prostitution is illegal.
Otherwise, so what?
First is the fact that prostitution is illegal throughout most of the United States and is the reason that this billionaire this story gets any attention.
Second is the undeniable fact that the billionaire owner of the San Francisco 49ers owner Jed York could be so stupid and put himself in this precarious legal position.
Jed York. Busted
It’s embarrassing for Jed York, embarrassing for the San Francisco 49ers and embarrassing for the City of San Francisco.
Prostitution is legal in many European countries where the activity is closely monitored by local law enforcement and health authorities. If he really needed a little action Jed York should have flown to any number of European cities. Or waited until his team flew to Australia for their upcoming season opener.It’s legal down under as the map below shows.
He can afford the air fare. Instead he went to East Palestine, Ohio. A known hot spot for police ‘stings’. A mere 20 miles from his birthplace.
In countries where it’s illegal working prostitutes are susceptible to unsafe working conditions: pimps, thugs, abusers and subject to arrests.
Excerpted from The San Francisco Chronicle 8.24.2026
San Francisco 49ers owner Jed York whose wealth is valued at 8.5BN responded to an advertisement on a prostitution website and arranged for a $140 sexual encounter, according to an affidavit signed by an agent with the Mahoning Valley Human Trafficking Task Force.
He was arrested after he arrived at the mobile home park in East Palestine and was taken into custody as part of a sting operation.
Authorities seized $160 from York that will be forfeited to the task force, which assisted the East Palestine Police Department with Yorkโs arrest, according to court records. The phone the affidavit said was โused to arrange the criminal actโ was ordered returned to York.
Currently the blogger is totally immersed in the book “Dangerous Dirty Violent and Young” written by Zayd Dohrn, son of Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers.
There’s a long history and the blogger has been digging deep. Discovering details drawing out decades of committed sometimes violent ‘radical‘ political involvement.All with a mission to disrupt the American political system.
The story of Bernardine Dohrn is an apocryphal tale of America in the second half of the 20th century.
Bernardine Rae Dohrn (nรฉeOhrnstein; born January 12, 1942) is a retired American law professor and a former leader of the far-left militant organization Weather Underground in the United States. As a leader of the Weather Underground in the early 1970s, Dohrn was on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted list for several years. She remained a fugitive, even though she was removed from the list. After coming out of hiding in 1980, Dohrn pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges of aggravated battery and bail jumping.
Dohrn became one of the leaders of the Revolutionary Youth Movement (RYM), a radical wing of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), in the late 1960s. Dohrn with ten other SDS members associated with the RYM issued, on June 18, 1969, a sixteen-thousand-word manifesto entitled “You Don’t Need a Weatherman to Know Which Way the Wind Blows”, in New Left Notes. The title came from Bob Dylan‘s song, “Subterranean Homesick Blues“.[7] The manifesto stated that “the goal [of revolution] is the destruction of US imperialism and the achievement of a classless world: world communism.”[8]
There’s a blogger angle to Bernardine Dohrn’s story. She found refuge in Sausalito, CA during her fugitive days. Sausalito CA is a town north of San Francisco where the blogger lived during his high school and college days. ‘Dangerous Dirty Violent & Young’ (pg.186-187)
Trailer for the 2002 Academy Award nominated documentary “The Weather Underground”
Dohrn and her husband Bill Ayers turned themselves in to authorities in 1980. While some charges relating to their activities with the Weathermen were dropped due to prosecutorial misconduct[24] (see COINTELPRO), Dohrn pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges of aggravated battery and bail jumping[25] for which she was put on probation.[26] After refusing to testify against ex-Weatherman Susan Rosenberg in an armed robbery case,[24] Dohrn was held in contempt of a grand jury[27] and served seven months in prison.[28] Shortly after turning themselves in, Dohrn and Ayers became legal guardians of future San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin, the son of former members of the Weather Underground Kathy Boudin and David Gilbert, after the couple were convicted of murder for their roles in a 1981 armored car robbery.[29]
In 1994, Dohrn said, “I still see myself as a radical.”[33]
In a November 4, 2010, interview, Dohrn described the political “right” in the U.S. as racist, armed, hostile, and “unspeakable”. Referring to the August 28, 2010 Restoring Honor rally which was promoted by Glenn Beck and held at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., Dorhn said, “You have white people armed, demanding the end to the [Obama] presidency.” She has also asserted that “the real terrorist is the American government, state terrorism unleashed against the world.”[36][better source needed]
Dohrn and Ayers were invited to the June 18, 2026, exclusive Grand Opening of the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago and reportedly seated in the third row.[37]
Top photo: Bernardine Dohrn (L) and Bill Ayers take in the Obama Presidential Center’s grand opening on Thursday, June 18, 2026. Photo: Justin Kaufmann/Axios
Sunset District merchant Albert Chow who tried to blame proponents of Sunset Dunes Park for the 2024 fire and subsequent break ins at his hardware story militantly vowed to a gathering of true believers trying to destroy the twice approved park. He will keep fighting until his cause prevails.
Albert Chow and San Francisco Chronicle photographer Yolanda James
San Francisco voters will be voting on Sunset Dunes Park for the third time in four years this November 3rd. Proposition ‘G’. Car driven foes of the park were able to qualify for the ballot because of the absurdly low signature requirement. Only 10,000 registered voters in a City with over 500,000 voters are required to qualify a ballot measure. Foes of the Park took advantage of this absurdity and harvested the necessary signatures.
It must be noted that foes of the Park to the point of boredom have tried to destroy Sunset Dunes Park. At the ballot box, in the Courthouse, legislative and administrative bodies.
So if the voters are bored by all this they need not look further than the group of entitled zealots who refuse to admit they’ve lost. The proponents of Proposition G.
“Failed attempts to kill Sunset Dunes” – No on Prop G campaign kickoff – 8.16.2026
It’s no ‘Compromise’. It’s destruction of Sunset Dunes Park
San Francisco Supervisor Alan Wong appointed to office by Mayor Daniel Lurie, whose District 4 contains Sunset Dunes Park, has bet his incumbency on the destruction of Sunset Dunes Park
The crowd at the Yes on Prop G aka Destroy Sunset Dunes Park was generally the older generation
Rich Corriea, former Captain of the Richmond District Police Station, is an outspoken opponent of Sunset Dunes Park.
The blogger has thrown in a little car music for the entertainment of the readers. It hurts too much to cry having to deal with this “for the 500th time” as a Sunset Dunes Park proponent declared recently. A couple of ‘oldschool’ rock ‘n roll songs may help ease the hurt because ‘old school’ is definitely what the cadres who want to destroy Sunset Dunes Park can correctly be labeled.
‘Drive My Car’ – The Beatles Rubber Soul 1966A gathering of Barnacles on a Saturday morning
Barnacle. Stay in one fixed spot for life.
‘Drive My Car’ – The Rolling Stones Voodoo Lounge 1994
TOP PHOTO; The Destroy Sunset Dunes Park posse stands before an inflatable romper room
Perhaps no Israeli leader, aside from Benjamin Netanyahu is more responsible for Israeli criminal behavior than Itamar Ben-Gvir.
The blogger keeps reading reports about Itamar Ben-Gvir. Israel’s Minister of National Security. A man who thinks Palestinians are sub-human; has happily posted videos of himself tormenting protesters who sailed to Palestine to support the people of Gazaand published a video of himself touting ‘gallows’ for Palestinians.
It comes as no surprise that much of the world now treats Israel as a ‘pyrrhia’ State. Its reprisal actions since October 7, 2023 when Hamas brutally murdered 1195 mostly Israelis October 7 attacks – Wikipedia has been labeled ‘Genocide’ by many world leaders and nations.
It is genuinely appalling to learn of how truly despicable is his conduct. The latest inflammatory comments being his wish that 30-40 Palestinians be killed each day.
Call to kill Gazans
In August 2026, he called for killing โ30 to 40โ people in Gaza every night while speaking to a former hostage, Rom Brasalavski, on a podcast. Ben-Gvir clarified that the killings should go beyond those who “pose an immediate threat”, stating that “there are people there who are not worthy of life… they’re not even people.”[92]
His statement was condemned by the Chancellor of Germany, Friedrich Merz, stating that Ben-Gvir’s statement was “inhumane”, “unacceptable” and a violation of international law.[93]Jean-Noรซl Barrot, France’s foreign minister, also condemned Ben-Gvir’s remarks, calling them “intolerable” and “inhumane”.[94] United Nations secretary-general Antรณnio Guterres called the remarks as “appaling”, “dehumanizing”, “outrageous”, and “dangerous”.[95] Guterres’ spokesman, Stรฉphane Dujarric, called his remarks as “abhorrent” and “scandalous”.[96]
Ben-Gvir has also called for the ‘hanging’ of Palestinians and showed off the proposed site in a video.
Last year, the commission concluded that โIsrael had committed genocide against the Palestinian group in the Gaza Strip, found that the intense scale and systematic nature of the Israeli military operations have continued, resulting in unprecedented death, injury and trauma of Palestinian children.โ
Here are some findings in the commissionโs latest report:
Israel has killed 20,000 children and injured 44,000 more since 7 October 2023
Severe physical and mental injuries, mass trauma, orphanhood, separation, disability, repeated displacements, starvation and the collapse of education and healthcare have erased childhood and will continue to affect children in Gaza throughout their lives
Palestinian children have been arrested and subjected to torture and other severe forms of mistreatment in Israeli prisons and detention facilities, with no information on their whereabouts
Israeli security forces have used sexual violence against children as part of the collective shaming and oppression, entrenched within a prolonged, ethnic, gendered and intergenerational pattern of occupation and hostilities
Ben-Gvir is a settler in the Israeli-occupiedWest Bank; according to the BBC, his “political background lies in Kahanismโa violently racist movement that supports the expulsion of Palestinians from their lands”. He has a long history of anti-Arab activism, leading to dozens of indictments and at least eight convictions of crimes including incitement to racism and support for, as well as possession of propaganda of, a terrorist organization (the now-illegal Kach political party). As a lawyer, he is known for defending Jews accused of Jewish extremist terrorism in Israeli courts.
Ben-Gvir is known for being a provocateur and has attracted headlines for a variety of reasons: threatening Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin on live television in 1995 shortly before his assassination; having had a portrait in his living room of Baruch Goldstein, a Jewish terrorist and mass murderer; calling in 2019 for the expulsion of Arab citizens of Israel who are not loyal to the state;[2] inciting violent clashes between Jewish settlers and Palestinians in the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah in 2021; and making highly controversial visits to the Temple Mount, where the al-Aqsa Mosque is located, in 2023 and 2024.
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Censorship and book burning are a sad historical phenomena. Recent history has found this activity in countries around the world. Nazi Germany, the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia and Russian obliteration of Ukrainian libraries.
America is not immune. The House Un American Activities Committee (HUAC) strove to ban books in overseas libraries which were deemed “too Communist” and “nonconformist”. Even in the midst of the 21st century certain localities in America have successfully moved to ban books from libraries and schools.Book Bans – PEN America
American Book Banning: Trends, Causes, and Impact
Book banning in the United States has surged in recent years, with both schools and public libraries facing unprecedented levels of censorship.
Scale of the Problem PEN Americaโs 2025 report found 6,870 book bans enacted in the 2024โ25 school year across 23 states and 87 public school districts, affecting nearly 2,600 authors, illustrators, and translatorsPEN America. This is the highest number of bans in a single school year ever recorded. The American Library Association (ALA) documented 4,235 unique titles challenged in 2025, with 5,668 books actually banned from libraries, plus 920 restricted through access controls American Library Association. These bans disproportionately target works by authors of color, LGBTQ+ authors, and books addressing racism, sexuality, gender, and history PEN America+1.
Who Is Driving the Bans ALA data shows that 92% of challenges in 2025 were initiated by pressure groups, government officials, or decision-makers, not individual parents American Library Association. This reflects a coordinated political and activist push to influence school and library curricula.
Bibliocideโattacks on the written wordโis a common tactic of totalitarians and terrorists. The Nazis burned books in Germany in the 1930s, as did the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia in the 1970s. Bosnian Serbs destroyed Sarajevoโs National and University Library in 1992, and in 2015 ISIS devastated Mosul Central Library.
During the Khmer Rouge regime (1975โ1979), the government carried out a systematic campaign to destroy books, newspapers, and other printed materials as part of its broader cultural and political purge. This was part of Pol Potโs โYear Zeroโ policy to erase Cambodiaโs pre-1975 history, culture, and intellectual life, replacing it with a Maoist-inspired agrarian socialist society
The Ukrainian Culture Ministry says Russia has damaged or destroyed 906 libraries since 2022. Numerous cases of book burning and library sacking have been documented. Among them: In 2022 the Petro Mohyla Church library was burned in Mariupol. Books were burned in Rovenky in 2023. Yulia Kakulia-Danyliuk, a librarian in Kapytolivka, has described the destruction in that village: โEverything was smashed and broken, books were scattered everywhere. There was filth.โ
Kapytolivka holds particular significance, having been home to Volodymyr Vakulenko, a poet and childrenโs book author, who was abducted and murdered by Russian troops in 2022. When the librarian returned after the villageโs liberation, only 4,500 of 16,500 books remained. She found books on Ukrainian culture and history in the toilets, covered in human waste. โAll of them had been soiled. That was done deliberately.โ
Oleksandra Matviichuk, head of the Center for Civil Liberties (which was awarded the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize), describes the destruction of books as โpart of a broader genocidal policy of Russia. We know from history that the burning of libraries accompanied genocides throughout the centuries as an erasure of someone elseโs identity. Putin openly says that there is no Ukrainian nation, no Ukrainian language, no Ukrainian culture.โ
In America the book burning mania took hold in the early Cold War era.
HUAC and the Era of โBook Burningsโ
During the 1950s, the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) and other anti-communist forces in the U.S. government were linked to reports of book burnings at American-funded overseas libraries. These libraries, numbering about 230 and holding nearly two million books, served millions of visitors annually and were intended to present a โbalancedโ view of the United States The New Republic.
The Context
HUACโs role: Established in 1938, HUAC targeted alleged communists and โsubversiveโ activities. While it investigated individuals, its influence extended to shaping cultural and informational policy abroad Wikipedia.
Overseas libraries: Originally founded in Latin America in 1942โ43 to model public libraries abroad, they emphasized free access to all printed materials. By the Eisenhower era, their purpose had shifted toward promoting U.S. perspectives and discouraging โnon-conformityโ The New Republic.
Targeted content: Books deemed โtoo communistโ โ including works by or about communists โ were removed from shelves. This included literature banned under dictatorships the U.S. had fought against, such as in Germany, Austria, Japan, Korea, and Trieste The New Republic.
Political Backing
Eisenhower administration: Reports indicated that State Department directives, sanctioned by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, ordered U.S. libraries abroad to remove such books. President Eisenhower publicly distanced himself from these orders, but his administrationโs actions were tied to HUACโs anti-communist agenda The New Republic.
McCarthyism: Senator Joseph McCarthy, though not directly involved with HUAC, was part of the broader anti-communist climate that enabled such censorship Intellectual Freedom Blog.
Sunset Dunes Park is located at the West End of San Francisco at the Pacific Ocean shoreline.
“Here we are again for the 500th time.” Lucas Lux, spokesperson for Sunset Dunes Park.Sunset Dunes – Wikipedia
That may be an exaggeration. But not by much. Advocates for Sunset Dunes Park by the Pacific Ocean in San Francisco have won every time at the ballot box, in the courtroom, legislative and administrative agencies.
Next November San Francisco voters will for the third time in four years be at the ballot box to decide the fate of Sunset Dunes Park. On both previous occasions in 2022 and 2024 the voters said YES to the Park. In 2024 Proposition K prevailed handily with a nearly 55 percent majority citywide.
Nonetheless opponents of Sunset Park obtained sufficient signatures to put the issue on the ballot, again. In San Francisco only 10,000 valid voter signatures are required. San Francisco is a City with over 500,000 registered voters as of 2024. It is not a difficulttask.
Bloggers Liz and Lee campaign for Sunset Dunes Park in summer 2024
Sunset Dunes is a 2 mi (3.2 km) long public urban park next to Ocean Beach on the West Side of San Francisco, California.[1] The park is located on a former location of the Great Highway between Lincoln Way and Sloat Boulevard. The 77-acre (31 ha) park opened on April 12, 2025, making it the largest pedestrianization project in California’s history.[2][3][4] The park converted 17 acres of roadway into separated walking and cycling paths with the coastal side for slower speeds and the inland side for faster speeds.[5] The park has art installations, exercise equipment, log benches and hammocks.[6]
Failed attempts to kill Sunset Dunes
A hardy group of 50 or more people gathered this foggy Sunday on Sunset Dunes Park in defense of the coastal treasure. Amongst the crowd were State Senator Scott Wiener, former San Francisco Supervisor Joel Engardio and former head of the Metropolitan Transit Agency Jeff Tumlin. All were instrumental in fighting for Sunset Dunes Park, approved by the voters in 2022 and, again, in 2024.
Since the voter approved creation of Sunset Dunes Park Supervisor Joel Engardio was recalled from office due to his support for Proposition K, and his replacement Alan Wong has backed returning vehicular traffic to the Great Highway. At the same time, the park is among the city’s most visited, especially among District 4 residents.[25][5]
Blogger fully attired in blue ๐ takes in the action
There’s more to life than politics.Thank Goodness.
It’s movie day for the blogger. The New York Times recently published a list of the top crime novels of the 21st century. And followed up on that compendium which, in its opinion, are the best cinematic interpretations of these novels.
The blogger has viewed a number of these films and read several of the books.
Attached below are the ‘Trailers’ for several of these films adapted to the Big Screen.
The blogger is featuring ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo at the top. It is the shortest in duration and the best of the group with its cover of the Led Zeppelin classic ‘Immigrant Song’ by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross.
Excerpted from The New York Times 8.14.2026
The New York Times Book Reviewโs recent list of the 50 best thrillers of the 21st century โ as voted by authors, editors, librarians and other book lovers โ contained a wide range of thrillers, from serial killer novels to spy fiction. A look at the list, however, makes one commonality abundantly clear: Great thrillers โ which are plot-driven by definition โ lend themselves well to adaptation. More than half of the titles on the list have been turned into movies or TV shows. Hereโs a look at the best.
Top Photo: Josh Brolin in ‘No Country for Old Men‘
Lee's Perspective 