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Art Parties, Awesome Performances, and Even a Salon, OH MY!
BY KIRSTEN CHEN ( w/ some crappy ‘accoutrements’ from ALEX MAK) Did you ask for ‘MORE ART’, again? Well, good. There are lots of new exhibits, street parties, performances, & festivals on both sides of the bay till the end of May. There’s even a tech fueled artist salon this week, mind
Herman Dune’s Sweet Thursday Celebrates Southern CA
Herman Dune’s first album in 7 years is a tribute to Southern California that will make you fall in love with the west coast all over again. David Ivar has spent most of their life on the road performing under pseudonym, “Herman Dune”. Dune hit the ground running – bringing
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
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
A Great City Program Replaces Vandalism with Street Art
You know what is a proven and effective graffiti deterrent? Street art. You can spend millions of dollars on anti-graffiti task forces and cleanup crews, but if you really want taggers to leave a wall alone, your best bet is to pay a local artist a few thousand bucks to paint
Where to Eat and Drink in Temescal, Oakland
Ah Temescal, arguably the best neighborhood in Oakland to eat and drink in for well over a hundred years. From the 1890’s to the 1960’s Temescal was known as the East Bay’s Little Italy. Italian delis, gardens, restaurants, and even an opera house once dominated 51st St. In the 1940’s a