Upper Haight Weekend Odds & Ends: Early Halloween Edition

Upper Haight Weekend Odds & Ends: Early Halloween EditionPhoto: Camden Avery/Hoodline
Camden Avery
Published on October 25, 2014
Before we look a head, here's a brief crime update. The San Francisco Police Department's Park Station said it caught a mugger and separately recovered a stolen bike. 
First was the capture of someone who committed a broad daylight mugging and escaped in a car, who was picked up less than an hour later across town:

Park Station also announced the recapture by plainclothes cops of a stolen Bianchi road bike at Alvord Lake. 

Speaking of Alvord Lake, this morning is the monthly Alvord Lake volunteer cleanup project. Meet at the lake (Stanyan entrance at Haight) between 9 am and 12 noon to help clean up, clear plantings, and spruce the place up generally. 

Sunday the 27th, from 11 am to 4 pm, the folks behind the Haight Ashbury Street Fair will be holding the children's Halloween Hootenanny for that pre-Halloween costume practice run. Activities will include a costume contest, a moonwalk, a raffle and live music. The location is the skate park at the end of Waller (at Stanyan).

In the upcoming events department there are three items of note:

October 30th at 8:45 pm, the California Academy of Sciences is hosting Creatures of the NightLife, a Halloween-themed drag show hosted by the one and only Peaches Christ. Tickets are $10 for members and $12 for non-members.

For those of you planning ahead, the new Burmese operation, Burma Bear, is scheduled to open in Second Act Marketplace on November 8th, after which time you will no longer have to wait for an hour for a tea leaf salad at Burma Superstar.

November 8th also marks the opening of the Keith Haring exhibition at the de Young museum, "Keith Haring: The Political Line," a collection dedicated to documenting Haring's political art. Tickets are available for sale now.

And finally, in three weeks, NOWSF will be launching its second Panhandle neighborhood festival. Now's your chance to weigh in on what kinds of things you want to see in the Panhandle between November 16th and 22nd. The deadline to weigh in is October 31st.