Last night, we went to SF

for this event

PLANET? gathering :: July 16, 2003


Summer Wednesdays are back and in force with another choice gathering
on a gorgeous warm night at Lazslo.

We have a great combination of art and music all lined up.

Art: we'll be doing something new and unique by turning you on to some
work that's going to appear in our next issue. Santiago Vanegas is a
local photographer originally from Colombia. For the past five years,
he's been shooting editorial and his work has appeared in Surface, WIRED,
Picture Magazine, and San Francisco Magazine. Recently on a road trip
to New Mexico we asked him to take some landscape shots and what he
brought back with him was absolutely gorgeous. Some of these pictures will
figure in a special fashion feature that he's contributing to our
upcoming PEACE Issue. Santiago says what inspires him the most is light and
improbability. "Light, for the idea of it, and all it can do.
Improbability, because it's a negotiation of contradictions. And what better way
to prove that what I see in my mind is real?" Come check his work out
tonight; you won't be disappointed.

On the decks we have one of our utmost favorites. Noel Tolentino is The
DJ Formerly Known as Oh Yeah and now goes by No No. He always injects a
fresh vibe into the evening and the often stale SF DJ scene. He is
utterly eclectic, mixing it up with Rock, Nu Wave, Electro, dance, disco,
archival soul and just about anything that has a great beat and jam. His
partner in rhymes is Tony Sison formerly of Fan Club @ LiPo in
Chinatown and current member of the Kool Kidz of Death. When this DJ tandem
convenes, like they will tonight, they form one half of the EXPENSIVE
COLLECTIVE. This group is dedicated to the FUN, loaded with new jams and
trashy hits - basically everything you want to hear. Now. In stereo.


As always, we look forward to seeing you there.


PLANET? Magazine Summer Series
2534 Mission Street - in front of Foreign Cinema.
8 o'clock onward.

ALWAYS FREE


"

It was lamo.

We got there at 9:15pm.. and no one was there.

We decided to head to the bar at Foreign Cinema.

tasty mojitos. i had bloody orange.

Anna, Chi, and Eugene were present. It was still packed for a Wednesday evening;

Anyways.. we only stayed for 15-20 minutes because we were hungry. We decided to head out to
Eliza's on 18th and Connecticut; it's my fav Nouveau Chinese restaurant.

If you go..

you must order

1. Mango Beef
2. Ostrich with chinese chives
3. Portabello Shrimp
4. Hunan Salmon

yum yum yum.

we scraffed


Lisa, a co committee ambassador from the AAM called me around 10:15pm
to tell me about a new gallery opening at 14th and Mission.


The place was happening. it was hip, and raw. It was packed with some Mission Artist type - hiposies; most of which probably had a clean, middle class upbringing from some surburb or little town. The irony of it all.

so many people. I wonder though, if any of these people really care about art, or they just really into a scene.

We left @ 11pm

long drive to the East Bay; the lone affordable(?) place in the Bay Area.


tired afterwards.