Dao Strom the author, educator, mom and singer-songwriter was the focal point of an event last week at SF Asian Museum. She is celebrating the reissue of her book “Gentle Order…”. Go, Dao. b/w Cambodian Rock Band, play, in SF, … Continue reading
Someone asked me about why Earthwise is doing so many shows now after so many years of fewer shows; or none in 2017 and one in 2018, to be precise. And that got me thinking of about 100 other topics … Continue reading
I was pleased to hear of a show at Public Theatre with music by Steve Earle about a flood in 2010 in West Virginia. I still have a slight regurgitive pang when I think of having to read “The Glass … Continue reading
BLUF he’s nobody’s girl friend vs speak friend and enter Last time I saw Matt Nathanson was in San Jose around 2009 or so and he wrote the words “WALLACE STEGNER” on his wrist with a sharpie. Not apropos of … Continue reading
update: the following shows are cancelled, by decree of County health: CJ Chenier, Earthwise Productions completed it’s 2019 season by selling more than 1,000 tickets to its concert series at Mitchell Park Community Center El Palo Alto Room also … Continue reading
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edit to add: I wrote that in honor of Jonas Mekas’ 97 anniversary of his birthdate. He was a filmmaker and founder of Anthology Film Archives in New York, on Second Avenue, where I briefly volunteered in 2001. I just … Continue reading
I am thinking about the Cal bowl game, against Illinois. So it’s my favorite tax dollar at work — Cal — versus the state I was born in. It’s 2 pm on a Monday — my wife works until … Continue reading
Cheap shot, I admit. Cheap trick, even.
I’m actually promoting a CJ Chenier zydeco show coming up here in Palo Alto on March 20, 2020 but took a sojourn — that sounds French enough — at an article about zydeco player Beau Jocque, who died in 1999 … Continue reading
Sudan Archives is a new band or project from I think her name is Brittany Parks; she loops violin and is way better than Black Violin. She is playing Noise Pop in February and they added a second show rather … Continue reading
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