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Stacy Alexander is a versatile Bay Area artist who uses mosaic art, among other mediums to share her perspective on the world. She’s a recycler who uses found and re-used objects to create her pieces, frequently letting the items dictate what the work will be about rather than trying to design a piece and then find the right materials for it. Asked to finish the sentence, “The life of an artist is …”, Stacy tells us that it is “a heavenly hell full of insecure securities, pain and joy”. Stacy not only lives this life herself but also supports …read more

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It’s no secret that I’m a fan of the music by local singer-songwriter Shane Papatolicas. He’s got lyrics that reference my favorite city in the world (San Francisco, of course) and a voice that’s like cloudless shelter from the foggy San Francisco chill. So it’s no surprise that I like the newest song (Slow Down, Hold Out) that Shane posted on his site. He downplays it by reminding listeners that it’s just a rough cut demo he put out there for some feedback, but the truth is that it’s already a pretty solid piece. You can hear it by following …read more

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* painting by Ryoko Tajiri
Ryoko Tajiri is a Bay Area artist whose paintings come from the Bay Area Figurative movement. A description of the work by the artist includes: “I simplify the figure and environment into only the necessary shapes. My paintings represent new perspectives of daily life experiences.” To learn more about the work, you can check out Ryoko’s San Fran Voice interview.
If you happen to be in Sacramento this weekend … or you’re interested in heading there for the weekend … check out Ryoko’s paintings at the Art Foundry Gallery there. Tomorrow is the opening reception from 6-9 …read more

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Tuesday was the free admission day at SFMoMA (the first Tuesday of every month is no charge to get in there and see their exhibits). I’d been meaning to go check it out since I moved here but you know how it is, that first Tuesday comes around so fast every month and there’s always something else to do. So I hadn’t been there since moving here. In fact, I hadn’t been there since the very first time that I came to San Francisco back in 1998. At the time, I didn’t know anything about the city. I had a …read more

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Europa is a band that I would have loved in high school. Now hold on, I’m not dissing the band at all (eek, dissing, I think I just went back to high school!) It’s just that, although I listen to a whole range of different music, my personal preferences have begun to lean towards softer, more lyrical songs in the last few years (I know, I know, I’m getting old). And Europa is anything but soft. They play an aggressive form of alternative rock music that never ever takes a breath. And they play it well.
The 6 tracks on their …read more

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One of my favorite times of day is when I hear the mailman open up our screen door and bang the mailboxes as he fills them. I get lots of interesting stuff in my mail … CDs, letters with packages, business plan request, manuscript stuff … but today the exciting thing was my calendar of events for the JCCSF. And it occurred to me that a lot of people probably don’t know what a great place the JCCSF is for events.
I used to work at the Jewish Community Center back home in Tucson so I was familiar from there about …read more

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If you go to the archives of this site, you’ll find that this is what San Fran Voice had to share with you in the month of August:
- 12 CD reviews for various genres of music including jazz, indie rock, RnB and singer-songwriter folk
- 9 interviews: four with local artists, four with local bands or musicians and one with a local fashion designer
- 8 recommendations of things to check out (which were primarily but not entirely live music events)
That seems to me to be a pretty good balance of what I want to have on the site, sharing information with …read more

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