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Friday night, GAMH:
Jesse DeNatale
Paula Frazer
Tom Heyman

I am not the first one to notice that Jesse DeNatale sounds like the love child of Bob Dylan, Greg Brown, and Tom Waits.  I would throw Joe Henry into that mix as well.  And then Loretta Lynch did backup singing for him at the show Friday night.  And Jonathan Richman joined him onstage to play guitar on a few songs.  And Tom Heyman contributed pedal steel.  And Nino Moschella worked on his most recent album.  In other words, Mr. DeNatale rules.

  

In case you missed it on flickr, I bobbed my hair this weekend.  Or, to be more correct, my fabulous stylist Tito bobbed my hair this weekend.  He calls it Express-Yourself-Era Madonna.  I prefer to think of it as Audrey Horne.  Visualize with pencil skirt and heels.  I love it.

 

 

 

 

 

At Somarts - Encuentros.  This is showing in collaboration with the De Young's "Chicano Visions" exhibition, and similar shows are also up at the Mission Cultural Center, the Galeria de la Raza, and the Mexican Museum.  All of the receptions are going to be held this Friday evening, with transport to shuttle you amongst them.

 

 

 

 

Saturday night, Bottom of the Hill:
Lilys
Human Television
LSD and the Search for God

S and I actually missed LSD because we were over at the Hemlock listening to Grimble Grumble create an awe-inspiring wall of sound, but arrived at BOTH in time to hear Human Television and the Lilys do their thing.  Beautiful night too.

 

 

 

from City Lights:

LaborFest was established in 1994 to institutionalize the history and culture of working people in an annual labor cultural, film and arts festival. It begins every July 5th, which is the anniversary of the 1934 “Bloody Thursday” event. On that day, two workers Howard Sperry and Nick Bordoise were shot and killed in San Francisco. They were supporting the longshoremen and maritime workers strike. This incident brought about the San Francisco General Strike which shut down the entire city and led to hundreds of thousands of workers joining the trade union movement. The organizing committee of LaborFest is composed of unionists and unorganized workers, cultural workers and supporters of labor education and history. Laborfest has now become a worldwide tradition.There are LaborFests in Tokyo and Osaka, Japan, every December. LaborFests have also taken place in Buenos Aires, Argentina and El Alto, Bolivia. In April of this year, the first LaborFest in Capetown, South Africa took place. In May, there were LaborFests in Istanbul and Ankara, Turkey. See LaborFest website for full calender of events.

 

The Bush Pilot:
This interview from a German TV show explains a lot.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Quiet Spot for Lunch, Adelaide Hills Chateau Gardenique B&B