THE SPRING ISSUE
The Marriage of Art & Activism
Depending who you speak with, she may be the front woman in a heavy rock band, a writer for several magazines and blogs, studio manager and tech aficionado, or organizer of political rallies. Yet, one thing Eleanor Goldfield is not is apathetic. Having witnessed the social juxtapositions of growing up in both Sweden and North […]
Shoes to Obsess Over
The ‘90s are back, influencing fashion in ways both overt and subtle. In the case of accessories, and especially footwear, this makes for an interesting dichotomy as the ‘90s saw not only the resurgence of casual–butch standards like the Birkenstock and Doc Martens, but also the birth of the status shoe-the more exaggerated the better. […]
The New Golden Age of Cocktails
Fall Cocktails Mixed by Gabriel Cothes – Cocktail Director at the Salt House San Francisco Socially speaking, the cocktail is king. Few common customs will entrance and cause obsession in the manner of a properly mixed drink. Urbanites throughout the world scour their cities for the best Old Fashioned, the finest Last Word, often to […]
Dylan O’Brien
Bloodhound — San Francisco Bloodhound owner Dylan O’Brien believes in strong drinks, friendly banter, and good times. When he’s not working behind bars, he’s usually listening to records, cooking, running with his dog, or drinking cheap beer and expensive whiskey. You can fi nd him at either of his two Bay Area bars: Bloodhound in […]
Anthony-Healy London
Churchill — San Francisco Behind the bar at Churchill most nights you’ll find owner Anthony Healy-London fulfilling his lifelong passion: creating great atmospheres and great cocktails. Healy-London received a Masters in History at Northwestern, worked on an Atlantic fishing boat, then spent six years bartending around SF until he and partners opened Churchill in 2011. […]
The New Face of Indie Film
Mohammad Gorjestani is an Iranian-American filmmaker based in San Francisco who has been named one of the “25 New Faces of Independent Film” by Filmmaker Magazine and whose film Refuge has been getting quite a bit of attention. Featured at the Tribeca Film Festival and as an episode of the PBS series, Futurestates, Refuge is […]
Cut Copy
The Australian group Cut Copy is on its fourth album, Free Your Mind, cemented with their patented filtering of electronics to create a decidedly indie pop confections made for dancing and movement. On the album, Cut Copy’s special brand of dense electronic layers keep their past albums’ danceability strongly in place, but the structures of […]
iamamiwhoami
A velveted rawness emanates from the stage as Jonna Lee releases her first note, searing simultaneously with both emotion and control. The audience, previously teeming with movement from the last artist’s digitalized beats, is still with anticipation; the wonderment in the air is palpable. Lee stands above a growing layer of fog, in front of […]
Ducky
San Francisco native Morgan Neiman has been making music as Ducky for as long as she can remember. “I had a pretend bass I used to play when I was seven or eight,” Neiman recalls. “I was always building my own tiny instruments. When I got older, the Postal Service was probably overworked delivering all […]
Bourbon: The American Spirit
The quiet face of bourbon has always been a mask of sorts: its awshucks folksy visage only a front for the shrewd minds that drive its determined growth. Bourbon whiskey, viewed as a rough-hewn drink and exalted above moonshine only by a few years in charred barrels, is instead the result of experienced and clever […]
GP Romances Jersey City
After 34 years in the restaurant business, George Politis brings a bit of East Village flair to Jersey with GP’s Restaurant, newly opened at 236 Pavonia Avenue (second to his first location in Guttenberg, NJ). From the small classic dishes with fresh ingredients that make up Politis’ signature menu, to the modern design, his new […]
Matt Mullenweg: An Open Source
“Hello World!”—It’s a friendly greeting and disarmingly simple. These words greet you when you start your very first WordPress blog and whisper, “You can do this.” The phrase has launched a hundred million blogs, giving voices from Argentina to Zimbabwe all the permission they need to make themselves heard. Less than 10 years old, WordPress […]
The Most Beautiful Molecule
Sara Naseri has a vision. She believes that it is in the very act of trying, risking and believing that makes dreams come true. The fascinating thing is that she also dares to dream bigger and bolder than most of us. In 2008, at the age of just 16 she set out on a mission […]
London Design Museum
The financial crisis of 2008 (and its legacy) has drawn our collected attention into a magnified glare on our own respective nations’ our own day-to-day living expenses. In times of austerity, questions are raised over what aspects of our society are truly affordable or, to put it clinically, what aspects are “cost effective.” Certain institutions […]
Kenji Toma
Kenji Toma is no stranger to introspection. The Tokyo-raised photographer believes that everyone should be asking the eternal question,“Why are we here?” and should never be satisfied by any simple answers. Toma moved from Tokyo to New York in 1990, currently dividing his time between the city that never sleeps and Paris. He has been […]
