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No popcorn, no soda and nobody in the next seat: S.F. welcomes back the movies

No popcorn, no soda and nobody in the next seat: S.F. welcomes back the movies
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The Metreon, shown in 2020, reopened as San Francisco entered the red tier.Google Street View 2020
There were plenty of empty seats and no popcorn as the Bay Area went back to the movies over the weekend.
Some of the seats were left empty on purpose, because allowing extra space is the new normal. Some seats were empty because people weren’t inclined to pay $19 for a ticket to “Tom and Jerry.”
Apryl Walker was among a handful of midday customers Saturday at the giant Metreon movie complex and shopping center at Fourth and Mission streets that opened its doors to moviegoers for the first time in months, thanks to San Francisco returning to the red tier on the pandemic safety rainbow.

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The view from inside: What S.F.'s first day in the red tier looked like

The view from inside: What S.F.'s first day in the red tier looked like
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Top: Lily Chen cleans the indoor dining space at Mama’s in North Beach as they prepare to offer indoor seating to guests starting tomorrow in San Francisco on Wednesday, March 3, 2021. Officials announced that San Francisco, Santa Clara and Napa counties are advancing from the most-restrictive purple tier to the red tier in California’s coronavirus reopening system.Nick Otto / Special to The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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Above: Rica Joson, Nancy Joson, and Nikki Gacias cheers to celebrate the reopening of indoor a dining at Fog Harbor Fish House on Pier 39 in San Francisco on Wednesday, March 3, 2021. Officials announced that San Francisco, Santa Clara and Napa counties are advancing from the most-restrictive purple tier to the red tier in California’s coronavirus reopening system.Nick Otto/Special to The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less

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The Ferlinghetti School of Poetics

The Ferlinghetti School of Poetics
Joan Gelfand
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“All that we see, or seem, is but a dream within a dream.” — Edgar Allan Poe
I: The dream within the dream within the dream
What is it, Ferlinghetti,
Strolling in front of cars
Haunting alleyways, stairways,
San Francisco’s sex fraught avenues? In North Beach
Where XXX marks art and
Nasty commerce collide, intersect Columbus,
Telegraph Hill, Jack Kerouac Way.
You are fog whispering in from the sea
On another sunny day.
Beyond the ledges of concrete/Restaurants fall into dreams
With candlelight couples/Lost Alexandria still burns.” *
Ferlinghetti’s words sink, weighted

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