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- To Catch a Dollar Opens in Advance of Grameen Branch in SF
This week’s Sundance Film Festival premiere of the documentary To Catch a Dollar: Muhammad Yunus Banks on America about the first women recipients of Grameen America bank’s microloans is important not just for its stories about low-income Queens residents but for the themes it discusses in advance of the opening of the San Francisco branch.
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- Blog Out Loud, Where’s Waldo, and Other LA Events
I’ll be playing Angelino next week with a few Southern California events–do join if you’re in town.
On Wednesday, November 4, I’m looking forward to the next Blog Out Loud event about creative and design work (Design Within Reach being a topical host). A recent BOL panel at Bell Jar in SF had a knowledgeable lineup, [...]
- Notes on Design: Celeste Prevost of DesignIsFine
I had a great time interviewing Minneapolis-based designer Celeste Prevost recently for the web magazine Notes On Design. Her work is fresh (as evidenced by the Ridin’ Dirty poster she created for the ARTCRANK poster show in her current locale of Minneapolis), but see for yourself.
Full interview on NoD. Series logo above by Jamie [...]
- Headline News that’s Good for You
In yet another attempt to bring smiles to recession-wary locals, Florida Street company Headline Shirts is using cotton and cartoons to introduce a new series of San Francisco-themed t-shirts. If you’ve eaten a taco, ridden a bus, or looked skyward in this city, you’ll appreciate the Ts featuring the 22 Filmore crashing into a fire [...]
- GOOD Coming Back to SF
Social commentary publication and infographic extraordinaire Good Magazine is coming back to the Bay next Tuesday. Their get-togethers tend to be a blast (and it seems that they’ve got a location they can’t leave in 111 Minna).
- Women 2.0 In Conversation: Veronica Belmont
My video interview partner in crime, Saroj Yadav, published her conversation with Tekzilla’s Veronica Belmont on the same day that the Revision3 host and I were in Santa Clara last week for Intel’s Upgrade Your Life. The most recent addition to the Women 2.0 In Conversation series with tech experts and entrpreneurs features Belmont talking [...]
- Geocatching Phone Game GoWalla to Grow
If a vintage suitcase featuring city stickers, a scavenger hunt, and an iPhone 3G were combined, the result would be location-based travel game Gowalla. The recently launched game from Texas-based “digital collectibles” company AlamoFire invites users to collect virtual stamps at the places they visit, hide icons for friends to find, and earn pins of [...]
- Two Amazing, Travel-Filled Weeks: The India Edition
Two weeks of Indian travel, recapped.
- My Hero Zero
At Rickshaw Bagworks’ factory opening party recently, I was impressed to see the ways that the new company has optimized their production process to reduce wasted fabric. The ZERO shoulder bag is available in four sizes, each constructed from a single piece of material patterned in rectangles. The Timbuk2 alums who founded the company say that eliminating scraps brings [...]
- Mission. Friday. Shocker.
With T minus two weeks until Christmas, I’m excited to see another SF neighborhood pull out the stops for local shoppers after the Hayes Valley street fest last Friday. Tomorrow night’s Mission Holiday Block Party (with oddities vendor Payton Gate, womens clothier Sunhee Moon, and the previously featured Curiosity Shoppe participating) will benefit Tipping Point [...]
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