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Archive for June, 2008

Brilliant Colors

*******New Thrill Parade (myspace.com/newthrillparade): a sort of punk-freak-performance band a la Santa Cruz *******Brilliant Colors (myspace.com/brilliantcolorssanfrancisco): all-girl punk/post-punk *******Hunx and his Punx (myspace.com/hunxsolo): Seth from Gravy Train!!!’s new solo pop/garage project *******100s of Dismembered Handbags in collaboration w/ fashion show by Machine (myspace.com): video/music enhanced performance art with queer-centered fashion collaboration

GLOBAL UNDERGROUNDS

Berkeleys Island.

In Berkeley’s Island Moby Dick Stealing Beauty Wild Boy Guy Ben-Ner was born in Ramat Gam, Israel. He currently lives in New York.  Stealing Beauty (2007) was shot without permission at numerous IKEA stores around New York, Berlin and Tel Aviv. In the movie the Ben-Ners quite naturally inhabit idealized showroom interiors with price tags… Read more »

“Black Gold” —A story of coffee and “free” trade

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Black Gold traces the tangled trail from the two billion cups of coffee consumed each day back to the coffee farmers who produce the beans. It follows Tadesse Meskela—General Manager of the Oromia Coffee Farmers Co-operative Union—as he tries to get a living wage for the 70,000 Ethiopian coffee farmers he represents. After oil, coffee… Read more »

Casiotone for the Painfully Alone & David Enos

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Owen Ashworth, formerly a resident of San Francisco, now of Chicago, has been playing music as Casiotone for the Painfully Alone over a decade, releasing albums on Tomlab and contributing to the soundtrack for Jon Moritsugu’s “Scum Rock”. He recently appeared on the David Shrigley compilation “Worried Noodles” and has a 7″ for this tour… Read more »