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Balazo Gallery
2183 Mission St. @ 18th
Friday November 30 @ 6 pm

My friend Amy Woloszyn is a local bicyclist, political activist & artist who was the victim of a hit & run accident 2 months ago on Capp Street @ 23rd Street.

She suffered a fractured skull, lacerated liver, numerous cuts & bruises and almost died. Now she has to wear a neck brace for the next three months and use a cane to get around. Because she will be out of work for an undetermined amount of time, she & her friends are trying to raise money to pay her bills and rent while she heals.

This benefit will be an art & services auction— paintings, massages, bake sale, that sort of thing with music performances throughout the night. She also has some chef friends who are going to prepare delicious foods.  Come if you can!

I was introduced to Casey Jex Smith at the Marin Headlands Fall Open House in October and really liked his use of color and geometric shapes. Now he is just one of the artists featured in “The There There,” an exhibition of East Bay artists at the Esteban Sabar Gallery in Oakland. Other artists include Derek Weisberg, Josh Keyes and Crystal Morey and proceeds from the show will help pay medical bills of local writer & curator Theo Konrad Auer.

Tomorrow, I’m heading to New Orleans for a week and a half. These are photos I took the last time I was there, in June 2006. It looked like this for miles and miles. It’s still a mess. Meanwhile, we are spending $300 million in Iraq every day.

Organizations working to rebuild New Orleans:

www.reliefspark.org

www.habitat-nola.org

www.emergencycommunities.org

www.stbernardproject.org

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I saw on Fecal Face that there is an art sale being held this Saturday to benefit the residents eviction defense at 608C Haight Street. I’ve emailed a few people to find the details. Anyone know the story?

Update: So, yes, my sources are fairly vague, but here’s what I’ve received so far: I think Dwyer* is getting evicted or something and is trying to get some $$ to keep it from happening or something. should be a good show!
*That would be John Dwyer of The Ohsees and The Coachwhips fame. (This info comes from a top Fecal Face Administration official.)

608C Haight Street @ Steiner
with donated works by
Zefrey Throwell
Chris Johanson
Shaun O’Dell
Chris Solaris
Kottie Paloma
Chris Corales
John Dwyer
Kyle Ranson
Brigid Dawson
Archie Mckay
Randy Colosky
Brian Nuda Rosch
Andrew Junge
Jarett Mitchel
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This weekend, the Hip-Hop Chess Federation (HHCF) hosts the first annual Chess Kings Invitational at the San Francisco Design Center (101 Henry Adams Street, San Francisco). The event features rappers, DJs and martial artists such as RZA, GZA, Q-Bert, Casual, Sunspot Jonz & Ralek Gracie going head to head in chess. International chess champion Josh Waitzkin will also will be attendance and there will be a panel discussion on the experiences of high-profile artists, athletes and authors to teach how powerful a role strategy can play in everyday life, preceded by a VIP celebrity luncheon. There is also an HHCF Scholastic Tournament, which you can register for here.

Tickets: $15; $7 for students with valid ID
All proceeds benefit the HHCF Scholarship Program.
Doors open at noon
All Ages

For more info and to buy tickets, visit The Commonwealth Club & HHCF’s super confusing website. Also, check out the HHCF blog, which has lots of interesting hip-hop/chess related materials.

Thee Parkside hosts the Scatterbrain Jamboree, a two-day benefit for the SF AIDS Foundation this Friday and Saturday featuring some excellent bands, including Mesh favorites The Fucking Ocean, who play Friday night’s show along with Love Songs, The New Centuries, The Lovely Public and more. Saturday’s show begins at 2PM and features Pidgeon, Whiskey Sunday, Schande, The Mumlers, Stars Misplaced, Bug Pedals and more. Plus there’s a BBQ in the back patio! ALL AGES.
Just $8 each day, or buy a two-day pass at the door for $12.

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I have, I promise, started Part 2 of the El Bulli post. I underestimate my superpowers though, because it took me an hour, that’s right — AN HOUR, to write about the first three dishes. And I have too many jobs. I mean, honestly, I’m not sure that *actual* whores work this hard. Because of this, and because this week involves a great deal of personal pain for me, Jon and I are getting the fuck out of here and going to Disneyland. I’ll be back at the end of the week, and hopefully the weekend will provide a new El Bulli installment.

Today, I kind of feel like I threw my back out humping your mom last night. That is because yesterday I went to get down and boogie oogie oogie with over 20 other food bloggers at the San Francisco Food Bank. I had been there before, with my students, and remembered it as a tedious and painful, if noble, job. Perhaps that is because I was surrounded by 40 7th graders shrieking like harpies whilst we packaged lima beans.
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Pumpkin Cutter Projects Hosts:
The Save Darfur Tour
W/
Visionaries (Up Above Records)
Greyskull (Rhymesayers)
Sleep (Old Dominion)
Alexipharmic
Pegleg

@ The Elbo Room
647 Valencia Street, San Francisco 21+

A benefit to support relief efforts in Sudan, where genocide has claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of people. Colin Powell called it “one of the worst huminatarian crises of the century.” With the United States just beginning to take steps to aid the people of Sudan, much of the aid rolling into Sudan is from nonprofits, which will receive all profits from the tour. Catch some excellent hip-hop while supporting relief in Sudan.

The Bay Bridged.com presents an echolocation day benefit for World Access for the Blind this Thursday @ Cafe Du Nord. Featuring the smoothe sounds of Honeycut, the indie experimental pop of The Ebb & Flow & the folk-y pop of Michael Zapruder. World Access for the Blind “is a non-profit organization employing unique teaching strategies to help blind and sighted people throughout the world improve their quality of life, and dedicated to the conviction that blind people can learn to see without sight, and sighted people can learn to see better.” $8-$15 sliding scale.

OK, kids, here’s the deal — every year we food bloggers (and by that I mean world wide) join forces for good. The campaign is called menu for hope, and this is the first time I’ve had an actual prize to donate instead of just throwing some cash of my own at the cause.

Here’s how it works. We raise some money for the United Nations World Food Programme by having you donate to the cause. Every $10 you donate gives you a raffle ticket to win one of the fabulous prizes AND –get this — you get to choose which prizes you want most. Super fucking rad, right?
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