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- Feel the Magik Magik
Between its fantastic name and emphasis on helping San Francisco musicians make a worthwhile living, the Magik*Magik Orchestra caught my attention with its pressure-filled beginning. (No garage band start here). The orchestra’s founder and artistic director, Minna Choi, was studying composition at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music when she received a request by the [...]
- More Weekend Wonders | SFMOMA Gala
SFMOMA’s much anticipated birthday celebration on Friday night will include a dressed up ground floor and museum supporters in “attire to surprise” (which, though confusing, is still better than a recent nearby gala’s prompting for “cultural” dress). Brazilian Girls are set to perform after a rooftop dinner, and it will be a pleasure to celebrate [...]
- SFiFF Opens, Hosts Live “Utopia” Documentary
I’m not the biggest short film connoisseur, but at last year’s Sundance Film Festival I was struck by “The World’s Largest Shopping Mall” about a massive shopping center in south China that stands nearly empty despite housing space for hundreds of stores and a Venice-style canal system. It was shot by local filmmaker Sam Green [...]
- What You Love, Want, Need? Welcome Ladywood
I had seen a porn for gals book a few years ago that was almost vision-straining in the eye rolls it induced in me. A clean sink and a Baby Bjorn are nice and all, but their turn on potential is…far-fetched for most women at best. Enter SF-by-way-of-Boulder designer Jamie Panzarella, an online experience creator [...]
- SF Indie Film Fest >> To Another Dozen
Now that the Winter Music Fest is wrapping, the 12th Independent Film Fest opens Thursday at The Roxie, and not without its share of good-looking features (including Beyond the Pole and Wah Do Dem) and mark-the-calendar-worthy events (a roller disco party at Cellspace on Saturday and a filmmaker coffee date at Four Barrel next weekend, [...]
- SF Ballet Kicks Off 2010 Season
Tonight’s San Francisco Ballet opening night gala to honor Helgi Tommason’s 25 years as artistic director for the company was a contradiction for me. I wonder if I was alone in finding it simultaneously glamorous and unstreamlined with performances that were lovingly presented while being manipulative. This isn’t to say it wasn’t arresting–the intriguing costumes [...]
- “The Indie Spirit” with Issues, Objet D’Art, et al
I’m bummed that I’ll miss tonight’s “Indie Spirit” soiree at Moe’s Books (but I can’t think of a better reason than Blog Out Loud). Local independent creators including Liz Lisle of Watchword Press, Nicole Neditch of Objet D’Art, and Noella Teele of KUSF (and the West’s best magazine shop, ISSUES) will be discussing the evolution [...]
- Street Art SF: Mission Muralismo
Simone Nelson of Bay Area Women in Film & Media turned me onto the publication and party for “Street Art San Francisco: Mission Muralismo,” a visual retrospective of local outdoor art. Editor Annice Jacoby captures the work of Precita Eyes Muralists and includes essays from Shepard Fairey and Spain Rodriguez, the author of “Che: A [...]
- Kiva Turning Four
Microcredit organizations’ efforts, GOOD Magazine and the Berkeley co-working center HUB Bay Area are no strangers to TheSanFranista posts, so I’ll get right to the point–international (and now domestic) lender Kiva.org is celebrating their fourth anniversary on November 3. The $20 tickets for the party at the Brower Center will get you organic treats and [...]
- Make a Joyful Noise: Music National Service
I have a massive amount of respect for a new nonprofit, Music National Service, that currently has its first class of MusicanCorps fellows in public schools, hospitals and community spaces around the US. (And not just because I’m tone deaf–the work that the fellows are doing to introduce digital arts instruction and music therapy is [...]
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