- Tara Foley: Either in a Million Years or Until the Bitter End
- Published: Nov 16, 2009
There is something familiar about Tara Foley's work, the way a Grimm's fairy tale can feel familiar and yet unexplored.
- Picturing Evolution
- Published: Nov 09, 2009
Just in time for the 150th anniversary of Darwin's On the Origin of Species, Bay Area photographer Susan Middleton and author Mary Ellen Hannibal have released a new book called Evidence of Evolution and plan to discuss it this week at the California Academy of Sciences.
- Art in Storefronts
- Published: Nov 02, 2009
Art in Storefronts makes sense: local artists get visibility, empty storefronts look better than they did before, and maybe some people will visit (and linger in) neighborhoods they wouldn't have otherwise.
- Listening to the Zeitgeist on Blip.fm
- Published: Nov 01, 2009
I'm a reluctant participant in social networking mania. I don't even want to know what Google Wave is, but am sure that in a week or two I'll be completely hooked. So on that note, here's another site to add to the mix: Blip.fm.
- 924 Gilman Celebrates a History of Punk
- Published: Oct 16, 2009
Gimme Something Better feels a little like eavesdropping as friends remember good times, like that time when Crime played San Quentin prison dressed in police uniforms, or when Green Day almost got killed by skinheads in Sacramento, or hey, do you remember the one about the mummy baby?
- CCA Gets Into Moby Dick
- Published: Oct 03, 2009
Like the book -- and the quest, and the whale -- the CCA Wattis Institute's Moby Dick show is ambitious in scale: it takes up both of their galleries at CCA, and includes pieces commissioned for this show and older work.
- Autobiography of a Place
- Published: Sep 17, 2009
SF Camerwork's show is about more than catching any one historical moment. It's a collection of moments and views, landscapes and opinions, as diverse and contradictory, sometimes noisy and sometimes quiet, as the vibrant unpredictable city itself.
- Mondo Vision
- Published: Aug 23, 2009
It provides a glimpse into a scene its creators are a part of: made up mostly of young creative people who care about their music and their world, even if for some it's the small world of Oakland punk houses and outdoor shows.
- New Frequencies at Yerba Buena
- Published: Aug 20, 2009
New Frequencies is Yerba Buena's first summer music series. Shows in the series pair local and international musicians, and they've spanned an impressive range of styles: a garage band, a throat singer, an improvisational world music/jazz ensemble.
- sfSound Brings Experimental Music to the Mission
- Published: Aug 06, 2009
sfSound's series of concerts at ODC are a great opportunity to hear new and experimental music.
- Fleshies Return!
- Published: Jul 17, 2009
Fleshies shows are loud. The phrase "wall of sound" has always made me think of the pure buzz coming from their duel guitars, rather than Phil Spector's orchestral pop arrangements.
- Edible Expeditions at the Conservatory of Flowers
- Published: May 24, 2009
The first thing you'll notice when you walk into Edible Expeditions, the newest exhibit at the Conservatory of Flowers, is the incredible smell. A row of small citrus trees lines the path near the door, and the flowers' sweet honey scent hits you the way the humidity does in other parts of the Conservatory.
- Inside/Outside: Artist Environments
- Published: May 17, 2009
Inside/Outside introduces places -- for the most part artists' homes -- that have been transformed into complete, enveloping experiences.
- Mammatus at 924 Gilman
- Published: Apr 09, 2009
Santa Cruz psych rock band Mammatus are an earthy group with an affinity for the natural world, though to them it's more mystical than scientific. They're named after a cloud formation, and they name their songs after elements, dragons, and forest paths.
- Human/Nature
- Published: Apr 05, 2009
Though the exhibition seems, from the outside, to put an emphasis on environmental conservation, the pieces are all really about people.
- Quiet at Rocker Studios
- Published: Apr 02, 2009
Rocker Studios, a home-away-from-home for San Francisco bands for 15 years, closed its doors this month.
