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Parking in the Castro district can be a challenge, but it is really no worse than L.A, New York or any other big city. We actually did employ two venues for the 2005 festival in San Francisco- the Balboa Theatre and the Palace of Fine Arts- but it wasn't a satisfactory situation. The Castro is one of the premier rep houses remaining in the country-1200 seats- and it is simply the best venue for Noir City. Suggestion: park away from the Castro and take the ample public transportation to the venue. That's what many of our attendees do. We regularly sell out at least 50% of the screenings.Moxie - every year I lookover the schedule, and every year I punk out because I can't deal with driving around The Castro area looking for parking
I'm at the age where I also ruminate about blowing town, but I still keep my oxfords planted in the City of Angels.Reading about your having to go to all sorts of contortions, just to see a couple of movies, makes me stop: how can I leave NYC, after all? What if I want to attend a film festival - say, the oeuvre of Ann Doran, or the late period films of Flame, the Wonder Dog? Or suppose I feel the need for a pizza, or maybe an evening gown, at 3:00 A.M.? Where else but in NYC?
Jeze! Get up here! CalTrainJezebel wrote:Every year I lookover the schedule, and every year I punk out because I can't deal with driving around The Castro area looking for parking! Maybe, on a weekday matinee, and if you play hooky from work.
Sounds like a dire situation, Dawtrina. You definitely should train here, specifically from January 25-February 3. And there are some Bed and Breakfasts only blocks from the theatre if you're into the BnB thing.Dawtrina wrote:I work in a small team of eight people who are dispersed across four different cities in four different states. Only one is in San Francisco, he's reasonably new to the team and he needs some major training over the next couple of months to bring him to speed on a lot of processes. I'm the subject matter expert on about half of them and the single point of failure right now on a few which is a state of affairs that needs swift fixing.
Don't do it, Judith! Once you leave, it's very difficult to move back. San Francisco can provide the cinematic aspect for your Utopia, but our pizzas? Just not the same. And if you order pastrami out here, the counterman asks if you want mayonnaise with it. It's just wrong. Rather than moving, you should just leave Brooklyn for a week or so. This will refresh you as well as remind you of how lucky you are. Why not a trip to San Francisco -- say, January 25?Judith wrote:This exchange is of great interest to me, as I have begun, for the first time in my life, to think about leaving NYC.
I am inexorably inching toward retirement age, and I'm thinking that this City is getting so ridiculously and prohibitively expensive; services are declining; population and overdevelopment are out of control, etc.
Reading about your having to go to all sorts of contortions, just to see a couple of movies, makes me stop: how can I leave NYC, after all? What if I want to attend a film festival - say, the oeuvre of Ann Doran, or the late period films of Flame, the Wonder Dog? Or suppose I feel the need for a pizza, or maybe an evening gown, at 3:00 A.M.? Where else but in NYC?