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San Francisco Chronicle culture critic; #TotalSF co-founder & podcast host. Spends too much time in the archive. S.F. 🌁 Oaktown 🌳 Alameda ⚓️
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A Bay Area artist gave his neighbors free sculptures. Now his block is a must-see art destination

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By Peter Hartlaub Verified
| The Sacramento Bee Verified
Patrick Amiot's first sculpture on Florence Avenue in Sebastopol, a 14-foot fisherman made of recycled parts, was installed in June 2001. It was meant as a goodbye. He was broke, his career was at a crossroads, and the artist planned to pack up his young family and open a pizzeria in Costa Rica. The looming, joyful artwork erected at his home was a thank you to his adopted town. "I was expecting a city ordinance to tell me to get my s- off the front yard," Amiot remembers.
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A residential Bay Area street has a 4.8 rating on TripAdvisor. This artist is the reason why

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By Peter Hartlaub Verified
| San Francisco Chronicle Verified
Amiot’s art career was founded on making bright and detailed ceramic figures; the Montreal Canadiens hockey team was an early muse. The much larger junk art sculptures (Amiot embraces that term) flourished after the Sebastopol move.
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A cable car ride for locals? New Muni service leaves the tourist trappings behind

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By Peter Hartlaub Verified
| San Francisco Chronicle Verified
I’m sitting on a cable car, halfway through its hilly loop in San Francisco, when veteran gripman Val Lupiz gets to the “cable car worker pet peeve” portion of the ride. Like when he’s watching a movie set in San Francisco and fake cable cars on wheels show up in North Beach, Noe Valley or (in one particularly egregious case) Treasure Island. “If you’re going to shoot that scene, at least do it so you don’t see the little rubber tires,” Lupiz says, laughing.
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