If you’re reading this (via Oakland Magazine), you’ve likely missed Black Dot Artists‘ “benefit gala, light dinner, cocktail party, and conversation with our special guest, acclaimed actor Don Cheadle.” Did you go? If so, how was it?
Pinhole self-portraiture? Oh, you want Alyson Belcher. (Here is a link to BigCrow.com photographer and blogger David W. Sumner’s non-pinhole portrait of Belcher.) You’d better move, though: Her exhibit at the Robert Tat Gallery has its last day today from 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
The mighty, mighty Laughing Squid accompanied a “mobile boombox orchestra” last year through the streets of San Francisco. That orchestra, led by Phil Kline, walks again this week here, there and elsewhere. Would-be participants, onlookers and well-wishers should show up with boomboxes at 7 p.m. Saturday at Dolores Park. This event is free.
10:57 p.m.: Market Street by David Gallagher, an anythreewordsmith, under Creative Commons license.
Moving pictures!
In completely unrelated news, the Commonwealth Club’s last member-led forum of 2007 (a 5:30 p.m. reception yields to a 6 p.m. program that will cost members $10 and non-members $17) will feature Chef Elizabeth Falkner of Citizen Cake in conversation with San Francisco Chronicle food and wine writer Amanda Gold on dessert-making as art.
8:38 a.m.: Sutter and Sansome streets by shanan under Creative Commons license
If you’re in or near Palo Alto this evening, City Lights Bookstore notes that poet and journalist Sinan Antoon (joined by Wafaa Bilal, Michael Rakowitz and Nada Shabout, who’s coming off a Montalvo Arts residency) will speak at Stanford University’s Kresge Auditorium from 7:30 to 9 p.m. (Admission is free.)
Antoon was the subject of 2004’s “About Baghdad” documentary; here are some of Antoon’s poems, the prettiest of which may just be “Just Another Evening (In Black And You)”; Blog This Rock’s Pete Montgomery had a sweet write-up of last month’s “Cut Loose the Body” reading at American University.
15 December, 8:15-9:16 p.m.: David Sifry under Creative Commons license
Three Four things today!
