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I had a great time hitting the Contemporary Jewish Museum with Ankita on Christmas Day and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art with Amy Gahran and Tom Vilot a day later. Go if you can find the time to make ...Read More

Let a museum make your weekend in the new year

Written by George
Posted on December 28, 2010.
Filed under Images.
Tagged as art, culture, museums, San Francisco.
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After This Can't End Well, I saw Victoria and the Vaudevillians play Friday night at the Uptown Nightclub. I think the Uptown's site described them as "zombie punk cabaret" but judge for yourself, don't take their word for it. Read More

I have had enough of you and I don’t like you

Written by George
Posted on November 13, 2010.
Filed under Video.
Tagged as live music, Music, NaVloPoMo, Oakland, Telegraph Avenue, Uptown District, Uptown Nightclub.
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I saw this indie pop trio, This Can't End Well, open a show Friday night at the Uptown Nightclub. I think I'm going to keep an eye out for their Tuesday evening video broadcasts -- you may find you enjoy them ...Read More

I am a miracle waiting to happen

Written by George
Posted on November 12, 2010.
Filed under Video.
Tagged as indie, live music, Music, NaVloPoMo, Oakland, Uptown District, Uptown Nightclub.
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It's Bush, finally, of whom we all must wonder. How does he walk through the world? Read More

This is The Decider talking again

Written by George
Posted on November 11, 2010.
Filed under Video.
Tagged as books, Bush, Esquire, magazines, NaVloPoMo, politics, president.
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The tail end of last month's East Bay Bike Party didn't feel like the thirteen and fourteenth miles of the evening. To know what they felt like, I might have to go out with them again. Read More

Lakeshore Avenue by lamplight on a Friday night

Written by George
Posted on November 10, 2010.
Filed under Video.
Tagged as bicycling, East Bay Bike Party, Lakeshore Avenue, NaVloPoMo, Oakland.
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Whether live or recorded, Parlato has one of the most distinctly beautiful voices in contemporary jazz. She hovers in a two octave range, but her intonation is so careful and delicate that every line gleams. "There was a song that played ...Read More

It’s a feeling I want to stay

Written by George
Posted on November 9, 2010.
Filed under Video.
Tagged as jazz, Michael Jackson, Music, NaVloPoMo, SWV.
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Written by George
Posted on November 8, 2010.
Filed under Video.
Tagged as BART, NaVloPoMo, Oakland, Transbay Tube, transit, West Oakland.
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Many karaoke singers have one song which they are especially good at and which they use to show off their singing abilities. In Japan, this is called jūhachiban in reference to Kabuki Jūhachiban, the 18 best kabuki plays. Read More

The rhythm, the rhyme

Written by George
Posted on November 7, 2010.
Filed under Video.
Tagged as jūhachiban, karaoke, Lou Rawls, Market Street, Music, NaVloPoMo, San Francisco, The Mint.
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George Lewis Jr., aka Twin Shadow, has an amazing album called "Forget" and you should acquire it and put it on your music playing device and dance like Molly Ringwald in "The Breakfast Club" to it in public. Read More

How long will it be before you let me go?

Written by George
Posted on November 6, 2010.
Filed under Video.
Tagged as indie, Music, NaVloPoMo, rock, Twin Shadow.
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Remember, remember the fifth of November, the sentence that Mehserle got. I know of no reason why Mehserle's sentence should ever be forgot. Read More