February 2012
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Canyon Cinema →
Canyon Cinema is an arts organization and film library located in the Bayview which rents and sells avantegarde films, both historic and new. Canyon began as a loose organization of filmmakers in the 60s and it’s pretty wonderful that it’s survived all these years and continues to provide a service to freaked out filmmaker types.
Strangely, I just learned about Canyon Cinema while in...
January 2012
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Mission Dolores mural - Wikipedia
The Mission Dolores mural is an 18th century work of art in the Mission San Francisco de Asís, the oldest surviving structure in San Francisco. In 1791, the Ohlone people, Native Americans of the San Francisco Bay and laborers for the church, painted the mural on the focal wall of the sanctuary. Five years later, an altarpiece known as a reredos, was constructed in front of the mural, blocking...
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December 2011
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November 2011
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A David Dodge Companion - Plays →
“The Macondray Lane playhouse, easily unique among little theatres anywhere in the world, originated adventitiously in circumstances as blithe and impromptu as can well be imagined. Burkhardt, one day in 1927, decided to build a hand-ball court in the basement of his house, and solicited the help of several neighborhood friends. Someone observed that the basement had a naturally sloping...
October 2011
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July 2011
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Artificial Whipped Topping and Other Delights -... →
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Note the hat. Kind of NSFW.
June 2011
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