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My First Earthquake at the Bottom of the Hill
Quick, what band do you associate with San Francisco’s Mission District? As bands come and go, the answer will of course say more about you — your tastes, your “era” — than the neighborhood. For me, one of the bands that made a tectonic shift in the Mission’s sound when I first arrived here was…
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Red Bull: Tasting notes
Food manufacturers are known for their consistency, but at the same time they know people love novelty. Look at Taco Bell for example: their menu consistently has your favorite classics plus a few crazy new items that get people talking. In recent years, Austrian energy drink brand Red Bull has jumped on this trend as…
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Rhythm AI
One of the key ideas to emerge from conceptual performance art is tearing down the proscenium. To define the term, the proscenium is the “window” of the stage that the audience is expected to sit behind and passively observe. An infamous example of this in action is the performance piece Rhythm 0 by Marina Abramović.…
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Neil Hamburger at the Bottom of the Hill
Neil Hamburger was in town for the latest iteration of his comedy act on Saturday, accompanied by opening act Sir Richard Bishop, an experimental guitarist. They performed at the intimate, dive-y, and unfortunately soon-to-be-defunct Bottom of the Hill. I can’t claim to be familiar with Bishop’s work, but his solo act is somewhat akin to…
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Carnaval San Francisco 2026 parade
This year’s theme for San Francisco Carnaval was “La Copa del Pueblo,” celebrating soccer, as a sort of prelude to the upcoming World Cup. Needless to say, soccer is a big deal in the Latin American communities that throw the annual Carnaval events and grand parade. After a week of chilly temperatures it was…
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Empire Park
Just off to the side of the 600 block of Commercial Street, a small alley in the Financial District near Jackson Square, is a plaza with seating, gardens, and a water feature. This privately-owned, public open space (or POPOS) is named Empire Park and features a stone plaque dedicated to Emperor Norton. Muddying the waters…
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Chiharu Shiota: Two Home Countries at the Asian Art Museum
My most recent museum visit was to see “Two Home Countries” from Japanese/German artist Chiharu Shiota at the Asian Art Museum. This large scale multimedia installation takes up the back half of the museum’s lower floor. The first piece in her exhibit, Diary, is a passageway through a hall of an intricate mesh of red…
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Exploratorium After Dark, 2026 edition
Returning to the Exploratorium for the first time in several years (before the pandemic!) was like coming home to a familiar place. It was long overdue. One of my favorite aspects of the Exploratorium is the series of exhibits on perception: persistence of vision, optical illusions, differences between sight and motion, etc. To that end,…
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Stanford University’s Hoover Tower
Recently I had a chance to visit Hoover Tower at Stanford University, which I hadn’t been to the top of since I was a kid. From the top of the tower you can see not only the campus below but as the as far as the bay if you squint a little. The tower’s design…
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The Bay Lights, version 3
It seems like just yesterday that The Bay Lights first illuminated San Francisco’s Bay Bridge. But it wasn’t yesterday; it was thirteen years ago. Crazy, right? Since the original temporary installation was first switched on, it was removed and replaced with a more permanent version that lasted about a decade. As of Friday evening the…
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