Alex Mak - Managing Editor
Art Parties, Openings, and Fests in OAK & SF
By Kirsten Chen (w/ window dressing from Alex Mak) Did you say ‘MORE ART PLEASE’? Well, good. The weather’s nice and there are lots of art openings, parties, festivals on both sides of the bay in May. Here’s just a few in the next week or two. INTERNATIONAL ART, TECH, MUSIC MUTEK.SF, a
Creating SF’s New Disaster Safety Guide
If you lived in the bay in 1989, chances are you remember in vivid detail the big earthquake that nearly crushed you, and your little dog too. I personally remember watching the walls crack in my Aunts house, as I watched the Giants playoff game on TV, that quake killed 67
Taggers Deface Mural Made by a Robot in SF. Hilarity Ensues
Is Tagging Over Corporate Art Ok? The answer is, “I’m not sure, but in this case it’s hilarious.” Last month a tech company called ‘SprayPrinter‘ that makes robots who spray paint images on walls, put up a mural in an underpass on Beale St, under Harrison. The process is 99%
Patricia’s Green Has A New 50ft Glowing Art Installation!
In a rather delightful way, Burning Man keeps a storage space on Patricia’s Green in Hayes Valley. The San Francisco Arts Commission and Recreation and Park Department carved out a year lease for another sculpture that grew out of the Playa. Artist Charles Gadeken’s 50ft LED sculpture ‘SQUARED’ is now
So Many Art Parties, Films, and Festivals in SF, So Little Time
San Francisco’s Art Season has arrived and there are a ton of delightful art parties, fairs, fundraisers, concerts, films, and gala type events happening all over the place. From fancy to grassroots, outdoor to indoor, high art to tech heavy, from the art dealerdriven to the artists running the asylum. If
These E-Scooters Need to Be Stopped, And We Know How to Do it
On St. Patricks Day, former Uber executives and venture capitalists began dropping electric scooters on the streets of San Francisco like locusts. They didn’t ask anyone’s permission (which is the Uber business model in more ways than one), they just started dumping e-scooters into the Financial District and near commuter hubs. So while people
It Was The Biggest Hunky Jesus Competition in History
It was the largest and grandest Hunky Jesus competition ever seen by the world. Never before in history have more Jesuses…or is it ‘Jeezi’? (No one is quite sure what the plural of ‘Jesus’ is because when they wrote the Bible they didn’t know there were going to be so many of