This Week In Noe Valley: It's Pride Week (And A Few Other Things)

News from, about and for Noe Valley from around the interwebs:

• Omnivore Book's Celia Sack made a quiet announcement Wednesday [@omnivorebooks]
• So it was Andy Anduha who was arrested near Bernal last week for stealing packages [SF Examiner; also NVSF]
• FOCC is looking for help to green Ames and Quane St - two alleys at the eastern edge of Noe Valley [FOCC]
• Some of British writer Tony Quarrington's pictures of his time in Noe Valley [Tony Quarrington]
• Jerry Kuns is blind and has a beautiful garden full of texture, smells and sound [San Francisco Magazine]
• Joyriding kids take out a stoplight and flee from the awesome Prius that labels them Noe Valley hoodlums [f6x]

[Photo: zoxcleb]

This Week in Noe Valley: Outer Noe Oasis, Mitchell's Is 60, And The Trouble With Being A Landlord

News from, about and for Noe Valley from around the interwebs:

• Noeteca revisited: A public parlor in the outer lands of Noe Valley [Spoonwiz]
• Mitchell's Ice Cream turns 60 [SevenSquaredSF]
• Why it's so hard to find a decent apartment to rent in Noe (or anywhere else in SF for that matter) [NY Times]
• 88 year old lesbian pioneer in Noe waits (im)patiently for Prop 8 to fall [eBAR]

[Photo: Mansha Khithani]

Prop 8 For Political Gain

Is the arrest of a District 8 supervisor candidate while protesting the CA Supreme Court's ruling on Prop 8 trivialized if it was planned?

Among those arrested Tuesday for blocking Van Ness Avenue in protest of the ruling upholding Proposition 8 were two out candidates for supervisor in 2010: Rafael Mandelman and Debra Walker.

...Mandelman, a gay man who is the first out of the gate in the race to replace termed out District 8 Supervisor Bevan Dufty. An attorney and member of the city's Board of Appeals, he will hold his campaign kickoff in mid-June, 18 months before voters go to the polls in November 2010 to elect Dufty's successor.

But as Matier & Ross reported:

...Protest organizers met with San Francisco police in the days leading up to the court's decision and negotiated just how the arrests would go down....The arrests also began at noon- just in time for the live TV shots for the noon news.

FWIW, Mandelman "plans to pull papers for the race next week and his campaign launch begins at 6 p.m. Monday June 15 at Blush Wine Bar on Castro Street."

[BAR: Gay, lesbian supe candidates arrested at Prop 8 protest]
[M&R: This time, Newsom plays it straight]
[NVSF: Election 2010: And So It Begins]