“That was last year and to show how much the neighborhood changed. This year, it looks like Carmel. It’s become so yuppified. [Laughing] I’m not big a coward, ok? It was more for effect.” — GQ critic Alan Richman, in a follow-up interview with the Scoop regarding his quote (in the big piece about S.F. published this week) about needing a needing a knife to protect himself in the neighborhood where Commis is located, next door to BayWolf on Piedmont Avenue in Oakland. We know Oakland has a bad reputation and everything, Alan, and you said the remark was “for effect,” but that street has been a shopping district for one of the wealthiest zip codes in the country for, like, half a century. [Scoop]
