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A few months ago, I went to interview/ photograph Owen Pallett (the artist formerly known as Final Fantasy) at Different Ear Studios in San Francisco. Photos didn’t get used, but I think they’re pretty cool.
More After the Jump…
So I didn’t get a San Francisco Panorama. They were sold out everywhere and generally inaccessible. This means I’ll have to fork over sixteen bucks for it instead of five because the fine folks over at Mcsweeny’s either 1) didn’t want to sell that many for only five bones, or 2) because they radically underestimated [...]
Read the story »Last week I joined the scores of enthusiasts crowded into the basement of the Park Branch Library in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury to listen to Rock and Roll obscurist Richie Unterberger drop some knowledge. Unterberger curates screenings of rare concert footage and lectures every other month, and if you haven’t been, you’re missing out.
This particular lecture [...]
Check out piece by Current on pigeon racing. The pacing is excellent, and the deft storytelling highlights the engaging techniques that make Current a leader in journalism’s tech-transition.
I have to say I’m a little peeved at Current. For a news organization that is supposedly a groundbreaking alternative to the MSM, Current has been remarkably silent [...]
Read the story »Chapter Three in the Great California Gay Marriage Saga has officially come to a close.
It wasn’t a big surprise to anyone that the California Supreme Court ruled today that Proposition 8 was indeed a legal amendment to the California Constitution. The Court ruled that Prop 8 does not alter the constitution’s fundamental framework as the [...]
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A few art things going on around the block.
Oakland-based illustrator and outdoor expiriential art master Dave Wilson (aka Ribbons) has a stunning new show “Open Endless” up at Tartine. So now you have some pretty pictures to look at while you wait in the line that goes out the door and around the block.
The show [...]
Read the story »What: Crappy Journalists Getting It
Who they Are, What’s Being Done to them, by Whom:
(Flickr User: Blue$treak)
Matt Smith from SF Weekly, Called an “unfair, unbalanced, malfeasant journalist,” by a variety of San Francisco publications but most eloquently by SFAppeal
We expect our local reporters to have opinions; that’s what makes them flavorful. And to see Smith write [...]
Watch out! California political veterans!
I took this photo of California AG Jerry Brown and Former SF Mayor Willie Brown talking this morning after the AG’s presser announcing a law suit against Wells Fargo. A political move?
W. Brown was no doubt there covering the story for his current gig “Willie’s World” at the Chronicle. Please note [...]
Offshore Drilling Drilling Protest SF (Flickr)
I went to Interior Secretary Salazar’s San Francisco hearing on offshore drilling to cover the protest outside. From the SFBG:
U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar was welcomed to San Francisco last Thursday by a host of activists dressed as marine creatures, including a few diehards in head-to-toe polar bear [...]
