San Francisco Archive

  • Feel good gang initiatve (24th/ Folsom)

    Feel good gang initiatve (24th/ Folsom)

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  • #48HrMag

    #48HrMag

    48 Hour Magazine is awesome project, which I didn’t participate in. I should have and will next time. So should you. It’s available for purchase now.

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  • Ribbons Newsletter

    Ribbons Newsletter

    Got the latest from Ribbons… It’s a newsletter. Got this email a few weeks ago: dear friends, the first ever ribbons newsletter is about to hit the streets and it’d be a great pleasure to keep you informed of what dreams are brewing… be a stop on the delivery route, pass on your address, it [...]

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  • Owen Pallett at Different Ear Studios in San Francisco (photos)

    Owen Pallett at Different Ear Studios in San Francisco (photos)

    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…

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  • McSweeny’s San Francisco Panorama, I didn’t get one today. Boo.

    McSweeny’s San Francisco Panorama, I didn’t get one today. Boo.

    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 [...]

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  • White Light/ White Heat by Richie Unterberger

    White Light/ White Heat by Richie Unterberger

    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 [...]

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  • Urban Pigeon Racing, Current

    Urban Pigeon Racing, Current

    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 [...]

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  • Prop 8 upheld by California High Court, Opponents Plot Next Move, Peter LaBarbera (ugh)

    Prop 8 upheld by California High Court, Opponents Plot Next Move, Peter LaBarbera (ugh)

    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 [...]

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  • Art Things:  “Open Endless” by Ribbons, “In the Light Cone” by Lasercave

    Art Things: “Open Endless” by Ribbons, “In the Light Cone” by Lasercave

    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. [...]

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  • Media Notes…

    Media Notes…

    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 [...]

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