Music and the Street
We danced, bumped, communed in Gray Area, a space designed to bring people together to co-create bliss. On stage, gleefully, was Parra for Cuva conducting it all.
Giotis
Adult Joy. Noise Pop 2025.
"Look at the little ones," she points from the depths of CalAcademy as we stare up at plump fish swimming in rhythm to the DJ upstairs. Next to tuna they go unnoticed, but not to those full of wonder. "They are all different colors," she marvels, bright as a Pride flag, waving with as much grace.
I Give Up.
It's too late for the same old excuses, so I give up on giving up.
Holiday As If It's All OK
Restaurants Pizzeria Delfina and Chotto Matte are in Downtown SF's best shopping neighborhoods.
Good Fucks, Better Lovers: come rock with us
Better Lovers are bringing it hard, like testosterone-crazed teenage boys bent on pissing off everyone but with the gnarly chops of longtime players at the highest level. The effect is empowering, maddening, insane in truly the best way. Things in your home may be broken.
Learning from Indigenous Voices
or, "Kilo" Where You Are
New Indigenous Bars nourish health and Native growers
Originally published on November 22, 2023, in the East Bay Express
Movement draws attention to missing and murdered Indigenous women
Originally published on May 5, 2023, in the North Bay Bohemian
Redbud Resource Group shines light on Native California
Originally published on Nov 29, 2022 in the North Bay Bohemian
Ongoing Action Matters
READ: Bay Area Palestinians' Stories of Trial and Success
Young Man’s Blues
I took my kid to one hell of a show on Thursday—me, Giotis, he, Leonidas—together looking for rock on a school night. Jack White of the White Stripes obliged. Heading to the hometown show in our punk rock Ts, we wondered…would we mosh?