Mesh Magazine

Dancin’ in the street.
This week I smell smoke.

The Bay Bridged interviews Tartufi.

Awww Damn’s friends are stealing identities.

The Killjoy Papers says fuck The Hundreds.

Pacific Noise interviews Centric.

SF Party Party notes that Gavin pulled the Haight Street Fair’s alcohol permit.

Receiver creates a Mission District gallery guide.

Rumor has it that Namesake will be playing around 8PM.

Image Is The Master
new works by:

Mat O’Brien & Nick Nuebeck

Needles + Pens
3253 16th St. San Francisco, Ca. 94103

Opening Reception
6pm-9PM, Friday March 23rd, 2007
Work on display through April 22nd

This is a serious bummer. Bay Meadows is closing for good in November. I’m way into the going to the track. Actually, I was just searching for some Bay Meadows photos and found my first ever blog post on the Mesh site, which was about Bay Meadows. Since I started going, I’ve run into some interesting people that I wouldn’t necessarily expect to be way into horse racing, like the guy that runs this thing and someone from this band.

After I wrote this, a flurry of e-mails were sent throughout the office. One guy at my work had this description of a night at the track: “Crappy cover band, sketchy people, semi palatable hot dogs! Its like a really terrible circus where you are the clowns.”

Exactly.

The first Mesh blog post after the jump.

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I got a call  from my work’s security company on Monday saying that our alarm was going off. I went down to check it out to find that the building next door to mine was on fire. The fire gutted the building, leaving all the residents homeless, and a firefighter was injured when he made a leap onto the roof of the building on the other side of it. Amazingly, our building didn’t get too damaged, just a lot of smoke and soot in the vents. Yesterday, one of the building’s residents, photographer Silver Warner, who has had work featured in Hamburger Eyes, and had many showings in San Francisco was arrested. Apparently he was suffering from mental illness, and had been taken into custody by police on Sunday night, who took him to the hospital after he told them he had taken psychedlic mushrooms and believed there were bad spirits in his apartment. Warner’s father said his son had been acting bizarrely when he saw him on Monday, talking about snipers and turning the lights on and off repeatedly.

Nothing says Tuff Town like a unicorn with titties. From some of the people that brought you Smiths Night, enjoy some fine, fine music on 24th Street tonight from DJs Stork Nasty: The Millionaire, Yule Be Sorry and Ricky Suede. FREE.

Legendary graf-artist Vulcan was invited to hit up the Google servers at its headquarters in Mountain View, where he created the pieces that you can check out here. So feel good to know that while you were busy finding our site searching for “naked photos of Kari Byron,” your search terms flew threw some graf-covered servers.
You, the general public, can catch Vulcan at Bay Meadows racetrack in San Mateo (you can take Cal-Train from the city) this Saturday, where he’ll be creating art live and in person as part of a fund-raiser for Best Buddies California. You can also get free Vulcan wallpaper’s for your cell phone here.

It’s been a sunny, beautiful week that I’ve had to waste indoors. Thank jebus for daylight savings time though!

WFMU runs a marathon.

What I’m Seeing runs walks the Bay 2 Breakers.

SF Party Party weighs in on Gav & Jen.

Beyond Chon gets its Irish up.

H. Brown says Danny Glover for Mayor.

The Bay Bridged interviews LoveLikeFire.

Catch the fine, fine ladies of Von Iva at The Rickshaw Stop this Friday as part of Blow Up’s explosive lineup, including DJs Richie Panic, Jealous Lovers & Jelly Donut. Von Iva will be playing all new material, which they have been busy developing for a new release.

Hillary Clinton was asked on ABC News today if she agreed with General Peter Pace that homosexuality is immoral, to which she responded, “Well I’m going to leave that to others to conclude. I’m very proud of the gays and lesbians I know who perform work that is essential to our country, who want to serve their country and I want make sure they can.”

So, she’s very proud of the gays and lesbians she knows, but can’t decide if, by their nature, they are immoral or not?

Thinking every chap is selling bits of chocolate!

From the BBC’s Rush Hour via Trantastic. Was I the last one on the planet to see this?

Go swimming with Lorenzo!