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How Japanese Coffeehouse Culture Is Shaping LA’s Music Scene | utside the Lyrics | S2 E4
"Robeson Taj Frazier and Perry B. Johnson explore the rise of listening spaces in Los Angeles, tracing their roots to Japanese kissaten culture. At Gold Line, Stones Throw Records founder,…
LAPD uses mounted police against protesters
LAPD's horse mounted unit is funded almost entirely by private donations.
The Cockettes (film)
The Cockettes is a 2002 American documentary film about the 1960s–70s San Francisco performance group of the same name. Co-directed by Bill Weber and David Weissman, and produced by Weissman,…
John Waters’ “What’s In My Bag?” | Amoeba Music
Legendary filmmaker, writer, and cultural provocateur John Waters goes record shopping at Amoeba San Francisco in this "What's In My Bag?" episode. He talks about some of the best bad…
A new California law says all operating systems, including Linux, need to have some form of age verification at account setup
The government of California is implementing a law that requires operating system providers to implement some form of age verification into their account setup procedures. Assembly Bill No. 1043 was…
AUTOMATIC NOODLE
A cozy near-future novella about a crew of leftover robots opening their very own noodle shop, from acclaimed sci-fi author Annalee Newitz.You don’t have to eat food to know the…
Landscapes in Silk: The Ethereal Quilts of Judith Content
Judith Content uses inspiration from nature and a Japanese resist dye technique, arashi shibori, to create glorious abstract wall quilts in her Palo Alto, CA studio. Content dyes then composes…
We live in a city dreamt up by 19th century hucksters
via Greg Ruben