Tag: announcement

Muni Mobile Spinach Deals

4 comments

Editor’s Note: Thank you for supporting Muni Spinach, a new deal program managed by Mobile Spinach. The Mobile Spinach Muni deals have ended for the year. If you have trouble using Mobile Spinach, email John Vitti at john@mblspn.com. Meanwhile check out our current deals by Scoutmob. If you have other deals you’d like to see on Muni Diaries, please email us!

A Muni commute can be a long ordeal, unless there’s an oyster shot waiting for me at the end of it — such was the case when I took the 22 to Elite Cafe a few Tuesdays ago. Or maybe the ride on the 1-California would seem shorter if I’m looking forward to the tea leaf salad waiting for me at Burma Superstar.

And all of that would seem a lot sweeter if these restaurants would give me half off the price…

My day dreaming about food aside, this is really to tell you that we’ve teamed up with Mobile Spinach to bring you a huge set of deals on a couple of Muni lines! We all already take the bus from point A to B to C and beyond, which is all the more reason to check out the businesses on your Muni line to see if there’s a coupon you can use.

The participating merchants are pretty awesome: the long list includes Chow and Chez Maman ($20 for $40 of food and drinks), and discount for drinks at  Blue Bottle Coffee, Elixir, and Blackbird.

Mobile Spinach is a social mobile coupon company, offering mobile cash that you can store on your phone and deals on local merchants. Their offers are loaded onto your mobile device and redeemable at select locations around the city. The mobile cash never expires – say if you buy the $20 for $40 of food and drinks at Burma Superstar, Mobile Spinach loads your coupon onto your phone, and you can redeem it at the restaurant after you polish off the roti prata.

Mobile Spinach is calling this new campaign is called Muni Spinach. To kick things off, the deals are located at various restaurants, cafes, and shops along the 1-California, 22-Fillmore, 38-Geary, and N-Judah lines. We’ve listed all of the offers, organized by line and stop. Click the merchant you’re interested in and you’ll be directed to the appropriate page so you can buy the deal. All vouchers can be purchased directly from your iPhone, iPad, Android, or BlackBerry Torch. Each voucher is only available to purchase for a limited time, but can be redeemed at any time.

Note: The deals are programmed especially for Android devices, iPhones, iPads, and BlackBerry Touches.

Category: News Tags: , , , ,

Introducing Muni Time Capsule

11 comments

Today we’re unveiling a new addition to the Muni Diaries community: say hello to Muni Time Capsule, a digital archive of transit ephemera from days gone by. We know that public transportation is an essential experience in our urban life in San Francisco, so what was Muni like before the present time?

The idea for Muni Time Capsule started when one day, Jeff’s former co-worker walked into the office with a box of Muni memorabilia. Inside were old schedules, service change pamphlets (sometimes for service increases, if you can believe it), maps, photos, and various ephemera that we couldn’t believe we were lucky enough to see.

You’ll see some of the great items from the box on the site, but that’s not all. As with Muni Diaries, Muni Time Capsule is a collaborative process. This is a place where you can help build a digital time capsule of life on public transit in San Francisco, and a place for you to share your favorite images and stories of Muni from back in the day.

We’re celebrating Muni Time Capsule and our collective love for the city today at the Muni Diaries and I Live Here:SF Happy Hour at SOMArts, 5-8 p.m.. There will be food carts, drinks, amazing photography and art, and you can even write your own Muni story and caption your own Muni cartoons. So, please, meander over to Muni Time Capsule, take a look around, and we will see you this evening!

Category: News Tags: ,

Just added: Food Carts at Wednesday Happy Hour with Muni Diaries

3 comments

Pork Skewer from Sataysfied at Precita Park
Photo by Gary Soup

Look, it’s happiness on a bamboo skewer! And we get to chow down on this tomorrow!

We thought tomorrow’s Muni Diaries Happy Hour at SOMArts was already pretty awesome, what with the Muni shelter under which you’ll have several ways to record your Muni memories and memorabilia, the ample space of SOMArts that’s currently filled with Julie Michelle’s amazing i live here:SF photos and stories, and beer and wine provided by the gallery for low, low prices. But it gets better.

That’s because we’ve secured three great San Francisco food carts that will bless us with their delicious wares tomorrow. Sataysfied, Casey’s Pizza, and Nosh This will be on hand to help sop up the booze you drink as you loosen up to tell Muni stories. Or, you know, just to feed you dinner.

Details:
Happy Hours with Muni Diaries and I Live Here:SF
Wednesday, Nov. 17, 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
SOMArts: 934 Brannan Street (cross street is 8th Street)
Take Muni there: 12, 19, 27, 47.

Bring your neighbors! Bring your friends! Bring that old guy you see around the hood who told you about riding Muni back in th 1960s!

Category: News Tags:

A Note About Our Sponsored Posts

4 comments

Starting next week, you’ll see certain posts on Muni Diaries, such as our Fashion Friday posts, that are marked with this little “Sponsored Post” red icon:

These posts are supported by our local sponsors, such as Secession Art and Design and Mobile Spinach. In the 2.5 years that we have been running Muni Diaries, you haven’t seen any advertisements, but we’re starting to experiment with sponsored posts and possibly some advertisements on the sidebar of our site in the near future.

Having ads and sponsored posts might be standard fare for most of the sites that you read. But because Muni Diaries is built on your stories and our common love for our city, we thought it is only appropriate that we invite your opinion:

What do you think of advertisements on Muni Diaries, and what is your threshold on seeing ads on the site?

Earlier this year, I talked to some journalism students at San Francisco State University about how we started Muni Diaries. One of the first questions from the students was this: “Who is your staff, and where does the money come from?” This was funny to us because the short answer was that there was no money that came from anywhere…yet.

Muni Diaries is run by two humble people from our living rooms when we get home from our 9-5. Our website is generously hosted by Laughing Squid, and graphic and site design donated thus far by Suzanne Lagasa and Yen Pai. But we would like to pay our designers, hire a part time web administrator, and invest in other site features that make Muni Diaries a welcome place to share your transit stories. And we’d like to enlist local sponsors to help us with expenses as small as printing event programs and as large as hiring a website designer and beyond.

With sponsored posts and advertisements, we intend to bring you the same level of fun, entertaining content that you’ve seen on Muni Diaries so far, keeping all our content relevant to you and life on Muni. So if you’ve got something to say — whether it’s about sponsored posts, the business of online media, or our favorite: that hilarious thing that happened to you on the bus today — tell us in the comments or email us any time.

Category: News Tags:

Fashion Friday, Secession Style

2 comments


Photo by Kelly Nicolaisen

Who’s stylin’ on your bus? We’re a week away from our first Fashion Friday, where we invite you to show us photos of fashionable people on and around the bus. Our first Fashion Friday sponsor is Secession Arts and Design, where you’ll find mixed-media art, beautiful clothes, and jewelry. It’s also where you’ll find transit-themed baby onesies and shirts for adults and toddlers.

The submission deadline for the first Fashion Friday will be Thursday, Nov. 18. We’re looking for photos of your fellow Muni riders who have an inspiring style.

The winner of Fashion Friday will receive a gift certificate to Secession Art and Design. You can use the gift certificate for art, jewelry, or, say, dresses by Field Day made from vintage sheets (on Lea, below, right), or custom draped dresses by Rachel Znerold (on Lyz, below, left).

We look forward to your photos! Send them to muni.diaries.sf@gmail.com.

Category: News Tags:

Happy Hours with Muni Diaries and I Live Here:SF (update)

4 comments


Photo by Alyssa Jones

What is happening here? Is that a real Muni shelter inside SOMArts gallery?

Yup, and next Wednesday you’ll be able to drink under the bus stop at the Muni Diaries Happy Hours, in conjunction with I Live Here:SF and SOMArts.

For one night, SOMArts will become a space for you to record your own Muni story for a digital story capsule. We will be on hand to record your story, whether it’s audio, video, text, or art, in the Muni Diaries story booth — under a real Muni shelter. This was a really amazing feat, thanks to the help of SFMTA. We could hardly believe it when the shelter was delivered to the gallery.

Your stories will be collected on a new page we’ll be unveiling on Muni Diaries called Muni Time Capsule, a treasure trove of photos, schedules, maps, stories (we hope!), and ephemera from Muni days gone by.

Inside the gallery you’ll see photographs by Julie Michelle, the mastermind behind I Live Here:SF, art by Chris Rusak, and collection of film archived by Rick Prelinger.

Update: And did we mention the food that will be on-hand to help you sop up your happy hour libations? Well, we’re pleased to announce that Sataysfied, Casey’s Pizza, and Nosh This will on hand to help keep you satisfied.

Details:
Happy Hours with Muni Diaries and I Live Here:SF
Wednesday, Nov. 17, 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
SOMArts: 934 Brannan Street (cross street is 8th Street)
Take Muni there: 12, 19, 27, 47.

The main gallery is packed with so much great stuff, you’d have to come see it for yourself. A sneak peek:

i live here: SF opening reception
Photo by somarts


Photo by  Donald Kinney

Art by Chris Rusak — you should read about how his work at SOMArts is inspired by the stories of the portrait subjects.

IMG_7555
Photo by Lee de Broff

Eden from Secession Art and Design will also be there with the transit-themed shirts and onesies you loved so much at our last event. See you next Wednesday!

Category: News Tags:
1 … 13 14 15 16 17 … 29