Maps Only: Radical Cartography in Contemporary Art, has been in the works for a year or so. The show opens at 7pm, on May 26th and hangs until June 25th, 2012, at Back to the Picture Latin American Gallery, 934 Valencia Street, between 20th and 21st Streets, in San Francisco’s Mission District. Brian Jones work,  [...]

Last night the Alexander String Quartet tightly played Dvorak to a full house in Saint Francis Woods.  I could hardly sit still, while I listened and watched, from a front row seat. All of the seats in the house were fine for hearing, but the front row seat! was wonderful for this visual artist.  I [...]

Today, I made a list of the artists participating in the Maps Only with some that having agreed to join and I have met with, and others that I haven’t yet met. I don’t know what map, half of the artists are making.  This is exciting and a bit stressful.  There are 12 of us, [...]

This morning I am up early to write about the jazz band called the “Kai Eckhardt Group. ” I heard them with my European friends last night at Savanna Jazz, a club on Mission St., near Cesar Chavez. I did not stay late enough to hear Rolf, my European friend, play with this groovy jazz [...]

Magical, memorable, moments seem to  happen to people in the City that don’t seem to happen everywhere you visit on holiday. My European friend who is visiting us; her boyfriend, Rolf just joined her.  Rolf plays the bass in a band, The Busters, a popular German ska band. They opened in Germany for The Mighty, [...]

I met friends at the Amnesia last night for the music, dance and to see the band Goucho. It was packed. Four of them played at my moms 70th Birth Day party, so you know I’m a fan. Tonight, Goucho was a fabulous 6 piece band. The band included a female drummer, an upright base, [...]

“Larry Gallagher what a wordsmith! I love his use of language and the time spent listening to “This Desert Air” is time well spent. The piano, reed organ, saw and clarinet lend the music its sensitive feel. The lyrics though steal the show and are of the utmost importance on This desert Air and really [...]

The reverend LordRifa’s CD “ the Transmogrification of the Goddess” has an urban tribal ocean sound. Moody and dark, so cool, and the groove, so very danceable. Oooh, I’m onto Moments of Degradation, such dark sounding titles and now Banished and Dawn with such fabulous Alyn vocals…. I wish it had the lyrics. And I [...]