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Social Eyes: Week of June 11-17
This week's calendar picks feature James Blake, Third World, Summer Fest, Orchestra Noir, The Gold Souls, Grupo Falso Baiano, Alameda Yoga & Wellness Festival, Patti Austin, J Boog, and Problems.
Kitsch Coffee opens in Jack London Square
Déjà vu hit me the second I stepped inside Kitsch Coffee. It took me a minute to realize I’d stepped back in time to the bygone era of Blake Edwards’ 1968 film, The Party. From the paintings...
Who wore it better?
In the late 1990s, the films The Truman Show (1998) and EDtv (1999) were noted for their uncannily similar premises, in which reality TV shows go to increasingly invasive and unethical extremes in the pursuit of higher...
Tommy Bogo transforms utility wear into global fashion
Speaking from his loft in Los Angeles’ Lincoln Heights neighborhood, Tommy Bogo leaves a person of two minds. One instinct is to protect the Oakland-born multimedia artist, music producer, designer and founder of TOMBOGO inside a creative...
Martín Perna creates space for collective music-making
He started as an alto. Not a baritone, not a tenor. An alto. In the chorus of a Philadelphia elementary school, singing parts he was told to sing, performing repertoire he found corny and sometimes worse. He...
Shannon Shaw returns Hunx and His Punx to Oakland
Shannon Shaw is likely too humble to accept the title of Queen, but she’s earned it anyway. Between her seemingly endless roster of bands, tours and creative projects, one wonders when the Oakland garage-rock powerhouse actually sleeps....
