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The Museums of San Francisco
With around 65 museums, it’s no wonder that it is quite difficult to narrow down the choices and select the San Francisco museum that you absolutely must visit while vacationing here. The good news is that it is quite possible to narrow down the choices according to your personal preferences. Museums are a great way to discover the history, the art, and the future of a city. If that city gives a great amount of effort into building great places of learning about the art, music, history, and future of said city, then that city has a bright future ahead of it.
Art is something that is becoming more and more often overlooked as budget cuts hit school curriculums and great emphasis is placed on learning specific facts and details rather than the learning process, but art is a vitally important component of societal development. Think about it, the one thing that survives the generations of old and appears in museum today is most often art of some sort. Art is a way of expressing who we are, what we dream, and where we hope we are going. If we take the art from our lives, we are stifling our societies and risking our progeny.
In case you haven’t guessed, I’m a little passionate about art and feel that art museums are an integral component not only of preserving our pasts but also of insuring our futures. The first art museum I would like to mention is of particular interest here because not only does it showcases artists that are local to the San Francisco area but it also deals with visual arts, performing arts, and film and video. The name of this museum is: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and I seriously recommend that you take a moment or two out of your busy vacation time be devoted to taking a look around this great center for visual and performing arts.
Art comes in many shapes and sizes and few places showcase it as well as the de Young Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco. From painting to sculptures to quilts this museum offers some fantastic collections of art as well as offering excellent exhibitions that rotate throughout the year. Give your senses a feast of color, light, and texture by visiting the de Young.
If you have the time, you really should check out The Diego Rivera Mural Project. This project is about the necessity of blending all of the cultures and histories that make Americans American into one unified work of art. By using the historical artistic styles of the Indian, the Eskimo, and the Mexican and blending them a style will emerge that is Pan American Unity. While some may find the ideals behind it a bit lofty (I find them applaudable), it is impossible to deny that the mural itself is an impressive work of art. While this is not a museum, I really feel that this is an important work of art that is definitely worth mentioning.
Whether you have a deep and abiding passion for art or not, it’s hard to deny the power that art has to move and inspire people. For that reason alone I think it is important that we try to cultivate a love of art or at the very least an education about art within our children, museum exhibits are an excellent method of achieving that goal.
I was in the car, but my friend was driving it with a suspended license, is it legal for police to tow car?
Last night my friend and I were coming home from a friends house in San Francisco, the police pulled us over because he claims that there was a person crossing the street and we did not wait for the person to pass. This is not true because we both did not see anyone. But when we got pulled over, my friend told me then that he had a suspended license. I did not know this. The police towed my car anyway even though the car was mine and I was in the car. I had my registrations, insurance and all. Is that legal? What can I do? Can I file a complaint against the officer?
Yes I had a valid drivers license. The cops did not ask me even though I was in the car and it was my car.
File a complaint against the officer for doing what? Because you didn’t see the pedestrian? Or because your car was impounded? In either situation, it sounds like the officer was doing his job. (You won’t be able to prove there was no pedestrian, and it’s possible the officer’s dash-cam picked up the image.) If you file a BS complaint against the officer, that officer could potentially sue you for damages.
You can contact the department and ask them for their impound policy. This would be available under California’s public records act. Many jurisdictions automatically impound vehicles that are being driven by a suspended driver. (The reason is that suspended drivers will often register their vehicles into another person’s name to avoid getting the vehicle impounded. Does this hurt actual owners of vehicles? Yes, but the public policy reason is that the owners of vehicles have a responsibility to prevent unlicensed and suspended drivers from using their cars. If an unlicensed/suspended driver gets into a wreck while driving your car, your insurance will not cover them.)
What can you do? Sue your friend for the impound fees – because you shouldn’t have to pay them yourself. And think twice before letting ANYONE drive your car in the future, because if anything bad happens with it – the consequences will come down on you, too!
Edit: California has really strict laws for driving with license suspended. It’s an automatic 30 day impound – and it doesn’t matter who the car belongs to.
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