Category: travel
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Knights Ferry Art and Music Festival
A cozy expose of the best folk California has to offer, nestled in the Sierra Foothills, adjacent to the cool waters of the Stanislaus River In early June I took the Amtrak from San Francisco to Modesto, where my best friend picked me up for a weekend of music at Knights Ferry Art and Music…
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White Girl Over China
In a bid to initiate a relationship from the San Francisco Bay area with that of Shenzhen, China, the mayors of the respective bay areas signed an MOU officiating a cultural exchange relationship, recognized formally as a Friendship City in late 2024. Somehow, through the course of events at large and their inexplicable and continuous…
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SF Art Fair, Art Basel, Apples, Oranges
Asking rich people to perform culture, and whatever the opposite of that is A few months ago I visited the San Francisco Art Fair at Fort Mason, a four day event that drew mostly locals and included free la croix. Likely very few jets were involved, I heard no Italian accents and saw no Birkins.…
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Identity of a community; thoughts on Agnes Martin, Georgia O’Keefe and Raven Chacon in New Mexico
In recent months I have poured over a couple of biographies of famous female artists, two of whom happened to migrate from New York City to the area of the southwest which we now call Santa Fe, New Mexico, also known as the ancestral land belonging to the Pueblo and Navajo Nations. I made it…
