Celebration, cigars, and a bloody nose at Mirkarimi baby bar crawlText by Steven T. Jones, photos by Tim Daw
Friends, colleagues and supporters of Sup. Ross Mirkarimi gathered last night to celebrate the recent birth of his son, Theo Aureliano Mirkarimi, with an event dubbed the Mirkarimi Man-Baby Shower and Bar Crawl that started at Molotov’s in Lower Haight.
Among those taking part in an event centered around drinking, cigar smoking, carousing, congratulatory support, wearing custom trucker’s caps, and general male bonding were Board of Supervisors President David Chiu, his predecessor Aaron Peskin, City Attorney’s Office spokesperson Matt Dorsey, Chiu board aide David Noyola, former mayoral candidate Quintin Mecke, Mirkarimi aide Rick Galbreath, Guardian publisher Bruce Brugmann, former Santa Monica mayor Mike Feinstein, Entertainment Commissioner John Wood and local political activists Julian Davis, Andy Blue, Dan Nguyen-Tan, Amandeep Jawa, and Boris Delepine.
Macanudos and Mecke
Davis
The high spirits even carried through a fight that broke out between Michael O’Connor, the owner of The Independent who ran against Ross five years ago, and some young punk in a studded leather coat from a different group at Molotov’s. Details of how it started were fuzzy (taunting words and gestures were certainly in the mix), but O’Connor got his nose bloodied and the rest of us just chalked it up to boys being boys before heading down the street to Danny Coyle’s.
Peskin
Anyway, to Ross and his lovely partner, former Venezuelan soap opera star Eliana Lopez, congratulations again from the Guardian.
Noyola
Galbreath
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Comments (4)
congratulations to Supervisor Mirkarimi!
Posted by gdewar | May 1, 2009 01:54 PM
Congratulations Ross and Eliana - I could have sworn it was a girl!!!
Posted by Terrrie Frye | May 1, 2009 03:48 PM
Give me a break, what were these C**Ts doing at Moltovs? They are more suited to drink with the gentrifier’s at "Danny Coyle’s".
Posted by Chris P | May 1, 2009 03:54 PM
Hmmm,
That was some brain trust. Should have invited a couple of Tenderloin curmudgeons to protect them.
Congrats, Ross. Nothing short of a close mayoral contest tops parenthood.
h.
Posted by hbrown | May 2, 2009 09:08 AM