san_francisco

Clare Rojas at Gallery Paule Anglim

by Doug LeMoine on 7 September 2007

Lots of intriguing stuff at Clare Rojas’s opening at Gallery Paule Anglim tonight. Woodland creatures, naked dudes in tai chi poses, an excellent video of Peggy Honeywell playing a slow sad song at a raging frat party filled with beer bongs and keg stands, Amaze, Barry McGee, and much, much more. Worth it. I call this [...]

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756 / I was there

by Doug LeMoine on 20 August 2007

I’ve said it before: I don’t like Barry Bonds. So it may seem strange that I wanted to be there when he hit home run number 756. But consider this: I love baseball; the record for career home runs is, like it or not, one of baseball’s hallowed milestones; Bonds plays in my city; the [...]

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San Francisco / Maps and earthquake shacks

by Doug LeMoine on 29 May 2007

This weekend I got an incredible book about San Francisco called San Francisco in Maps & Views. I usually avoid glossy coffee-table historical books because they’re so often filled with disappointments  —  bad color, bad printing, messy layout, uninspired writing, PLUS they’re really expensive. But THIS ONE. This one is different. The maps are very well-reproduced, high-res [...]

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Google street-view meets new apartment

by Doug LeMoine on 29 May 2007

Mara and I just moved into the Lower Haight earlier this month, and Google just released a new Maps feature  —  Street View  —  that has a picture of our place. If I weren’t writing about this, I’d be speechless. Wow. Our place is the yellow two-story walk-up that is bustin out of the top of the frame. I [...]

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Living all over / Google-mapping my life

by Doug LeMoine on 19 April 2007

So how come I just now learned that you can create your own Google Maps mark-up? As a lover of both maps and personal documents, the ability to customize an online map has the potential to have a Shabu – like effect on my life. The above map has all the places I’ve lived in the Bay [...]

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Music / Lightning Bolt explodes 12 Galaxies

by Doug LeMoine on 18 April 2007

A few years ago, it would have been surprising to see a San Francisco indie crowd move its feet around in a dance-style motion at a live show. Last week, Lightning Bolt got people moving at 12 Galaxies; it wasn’t exactly “dancing” but (from my vantage point in the balcony), it appeared kinetic  —  lots of mass [...]

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Missed former SF locals / Chris Johanson

by Doug LeMoine on 31 January 2007

Once upon a time, a San Francisco resident strolling around these chilly city streets could brush by Chris Johanson pretty often. Even before I knew who he was, I’d seen him around the Mission a lot; when I finally connected the dots, I realized that he was the guy who had drawn little signs and [...]

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