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Friday, May 1, 2015

Boomtown: Remaking San Francisco - San Francisco made and featured

Movie shorts and performance pieces. Sounds better than it was. The shorts were previews of movies in process. Program description: "The modern history of San Francisco is marked by booms and busts and continuous reshaping". This part was a guy with a slide show about increasing rent costs and the irksome Google buses bringing the techs up from Silicon Valley. The mayors starting with Feinstein were boo'd when their pictures came up for increasing business without increasing housing, even decreasing it with evictions and condos that will be unrented but are foreign buyer investments or 2nd homes to the wealthy. The other documentary shorts were on Coit Tower, The Lexington lesbian bar, a type of ode to SF with Vertigo themes and a tribute to The Mission. Oh, I forgot - a partial showing of The Last Black Man in San Francisco. It is being filmed and I liked this the best.

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