The other night, as I was walking home from Van Ness Muni, I was followed by a couple singing in Italian. Each was singing a different song (or maybe it was meant to be a piece in harmony but it didn’t sound like that). It gave a whole new ambiance to the funky area of Market and Page Street. Plus there was some sort of hipster art opening at a nearby gallery. Then today, as I was walking past Hayes Green (which really ought to be called Walkup and Levitt Park, due to the momentous efforts of Patricia Walkup and Robin Levitt to make that park a reality), I noticed that the building renovation on Hayes and Octavia has exposed the old painted signs on the side of the building: “Drink Acme Beer, Light and Dry”.