Craig F. Fenner
san_francisco, ca
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- Events: 26
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Tom Rhodes: Two Nights @ Club Deluxe
Where: Club Deluxe
Date: 2008-03-28 21:00:00
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Tom Rhodes has been around, literally and figuratively. Now in his 40s, Rhodes has been a comic since his senior year in high school. Since then he’s lived in Florida, San Francisco, L.A., New York and in Amsterdam, where he hosted his own talk show for 2 years. Rhodes has played every American city that has a comedy club, and he’s toured the globe so many times that when Immigration looks at his passport, they ask for Cliffs Notes. When Rhodes speaks, it’s in a mellifluous manner that suggests higher education, but Rhodes is somewhat proud that the last class he attended was in public high school. But Rhodes never settles for jokes about broken toasters or remoter controls, he would rather brood over race and culture. In addition to touring all over the world, Rhodes has appeared on a number of television shows throughout the years including “Comic Strip Live,” “MTV’s “Half Hour Comedy Hour,” “The World Stands Up,” “Late Friday” and has even had his own half-hour comedy special on “Comedy Central Presents …” Rhodes also briefly starred in his own sitcom on NBC called “Mr. Rhodes.”
Bones: Some Have Them, Some Don't
Where: Lawrence Hall of Science, UC Berkeley
Date: 2008-03-08 10:00:00
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Find out, Which animals have bones in their bodies,and which animals don't?
Good for Cows
Where: Hemlock Tavern
Date: 2007-10-10 21:30:00
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Good for Cows is a duo with drummer Ches Smith and bassist Devon Hoff. Ruins are the brainchild of drummer Tatsuya Yoshida, one of Japan's most original and fiercely independent musicians. He formed the band in the summer of 1985, originally intending to be a power trio, but when the guitarist didn't show for their first rehearsal, he bumped Ruins down to a rhythm-section-only duo. He's currently making his way on tour looking for a suitable sidekick to be the bassist in his outrageous punk rock duo.
Clipse
Where: The Independent
Date: 2007-09-06 21:00:00
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Tickets on sale on Jul, 29 2007 at 10:00 AM PDT.
The Cinematic Orchestra
Where: Bimbos
Date: 2007-09-15 20:00:00
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omg omg omg!!! (even if the new album isn't as good) http://myspace.com/thecinematicorchestras $20. 18+.
Sage Francis
Where: Slim's
Date: 2007-09-06 21:00:00
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Sage Francis has been escaping the real world through music as the leader of the non-prophets.
The Broken West
Where: Cafe Du Nord
Date: 2007-04-16 21:30:00
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The Broken West formed in Los Angeles in the summer of 2004, a group of friends from all across the country, coming together based on their mutual love of music. So far in their young rock and roll life The Broken West have already released a critically acclaimed EP The Dutchmans Gold and criss-crossed the country several times, we're assuming in a beat-up van. In January 2007, Merge will release their debut full length, I Cant Go On, Ill Go On, wherein the lads craft their roughly elegant pop with infectious confidence that belies their relatively short career to date. The Broken West are a talented group of young musicians united in their love of the song. Whether it be in the studio or on stage, where their raucously energetic live show is a site to behold, their enthusiasm and optimism are infectious, as it should be. What you hold in your hands is an extraordinary new album from an amazing young band destined to be reckoned with for years to come.
Tech Connection #6
Where: Mighty
Date: 2007-10-16 17:30:00
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Coming up Tuesday October 16th: The 6th Tech Connection, the latest in a series of gatherings allowing tech community entrepreneurs to meet and network with peers. Business angels, VCs, Entrepreneurs, and members of the Press are all welcome to join us for this exciting evening, where 10 hot French technology selected startups will demo their products for you in a relaxed atmosphere. Presentations by startup companies will begin at 7:00 p.m. A “speed geeking” demo format will follow these brief introductions. All presenters and their teams will be available for one-on-one conversations before and after the demo session. More information about the companies will be available soon. The event will take place on Tuesday, October 16th, from 5:30 p.m. to 9.30 p.m. at Mighty, 119 Utah Street, San Francisco. Food and wine are included with admission. Online registration is available here **** This event is part of the first French Tech Connection Tour in Silicon Valley, organized by the Embassy of France’s Economic Department in San Francisco. This week long Tour aims to showcase 10 selected French Technology startups during the week of this year’s Web 2.0 Summit (October 15-19).
San Francisco 49ers Vs Denver Broncos
Where: Monster Park (Formerly Candlestick Park, 3com Park)
Date: 2007-08-13 17:00:00
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San Francisco 49ers will take on Denver Broncos in this football match.
Ratatat and Spank Rock DJs
Where: Mighty
Date: 2007-07-19 21:00:00
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Flavorpill presents... Ratatat and Spank Rock DJs
The Guardsmen 5th Annual Bachelor Auction
Where: Ruby Skye
Date: 2008-06-19 19:00:00
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Yes! Money can buy you love at the Guardsmen 5th Annual Bachelor Auction. Join us for an amazing night of fun and excitement as we auction off 25 of San Francisco's MOST ELIGIBLE BACHELORS to benefit disadvantaged youth in the Bay Area. Each bachelor comes with a DREAM DATE - Including a big night out on the town, dinner and a special event or activity. Last year guests traveled from near and far to mingle and bid on the Bay Area's best bachelors. The SOLD-OUT event brought in 1,200 people and over $74,000 for the Guardsmen scholarship fund. REMEMBER THE KIDS... Bid high and bid often! Gentlemen: Don't miss this event! 25 men, 1100 enthusiastic, Cosmo-sotted women... Talk about good odds! At this very event, there have been reported marriages, many long term-relationships, and quite a few short-term. FEATURING: • Complimentary Cosmos for the ladies 7:00 PM-8:30 PM • Auction starts at 8:30 PM • Top shelf, no-host bars • DJ and dancing after the auction Purchase Tickets at www.TheAList.org • VIP Lov'n Lounge: $125. This is where you want to be! TheAList.org has a few specially priced tickets available for $74.99, for a short time only. Includes: Private VIP Lounge, Exclusive balcony vantage point, Opportunity to get up close and personal with the "Men For Sale," Luscious libations, Tasty treats, and Goodies galore... • General Admission: $24.99. Includes: Complimentary Cosmos for the ladies, 7:00PM - 8:30PM. This event will sell-out. Buy your tickets now! You never know who you'll meet… For more information, visit www.TheAList.org or contact info [at] TheAList.org To stay in-the-know about all of the Bay Area’s hottest events or to learn how to win FREE TICKETS, subscribe to TheAList.org’s FREE party mail at http://www.thealist.org/subscribe.asp
Ozomatli
Where: Fillmore Auditorium San Francisco
Date: 2007-11-29 20:00:00
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Ozomatli with Wisdom Thursday, November 29, 2007 The Fillmore Doors: 7:00 pm | Show: 8:00 pm General Admission - $26.50
OriginalSessions Battle of the Bands
Where: Fat City (formerly Studio Z)
Date: 2008-01-18 20:30:00
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Come hear the best emerging Bay Area bands duke it out as the OriginalSessions National Band Search comes to San Francisco! Fat City (formerly Studio Z, across the street from Slim's) Friday, January 18 8:30pm $10 / 21+ Featuring Umana Paul Manousos & The East Bay Wrecking Crew La Ventana We Are Invisible Kapakahi Ugly
KUNST-STOFF Prom @ Amnesia
Where: Amnesia
Date: 2008-01-31 20:00:00
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Step back in time and go to the prom you've always dreamed of! This is an "all-eras" event so dust off your powder-blue tux, plug in your crimping iron, and brush up on your favorite disco, punk, funk, rockabilly, breakdance, new wave, line dance moves. Events include a kissing/spanking booth, official prom photos, Prom King & Queen contest, raffle prizes, live music, guest DJ's and of course an out-of-control dance floor! Come help KUNST-STOFF celebrate our 10th Anniversary Home Season through an evening of music, spirit, laughter, and dancing! $25 suggested donation at the door No one turned away for lack of funds All procees benefit the production of KUNST-STOFF's 10th Anniversary Season. Check out IDOL Vintage for the most fantabulous in vintage Prom wear It's official - If you go to IDOL Vintage (3162 16th street - next to Adobe Books) to buy your prom outfit, they will generously donate 5% of all Prom sales to support KUNST-STOFF's 10th Anniversary Season. Be sure to mention you're going to the Prom @ Amnesia!
The Family Studio - Lucy McKenzie: Hats Off
Where: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)
Date: 2008-02-17 12:00:00
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Inspired by the work of McKenzie, this program explores environmentally conscious fashion.
Pelican with Thrice, Circa Survive
Where: Fillmore Auditorium San Francisco
Date: 2008-05-25 20:00:00
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http://www.myspace.com/pelican
Dave Matthews Band, Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings
Where: Greek Theatre, UC Berkeley
Date: 2008-09-07 18:00:00
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Web 2.0 Expo: The Big Open Y! Party @ Brickhouse
Where: Yahoo Brickhouse
Date: 2008-04-23 19:00:00
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Web 2.0 Expo attendees, stop by and see us on the South Park Crawl. Join Yahoo! and YDN for a chill spring evening at the Brickhouse, home of Fire Eagle, Y!Live, and Yahoo! Video. Food, beer, DJs, and windows open.
Live music: San Francisco’s School of the Arts High School S...
Where: Farley's
Date: 2008-05-08 19:00:00
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Thursday, May 8th – Live music: San Francisco’s School of the Arts High School Songwriting Students present their Spring Showcase! Come enjoy good music written by young aspiring songwriters and support the artistic community in SF! Show begins at 7pm.
BAVC Innovation Salon V: The Gaming (R)Evolution: Creating S...
Where: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Date: 2008-06-03 19:00:00
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BAVC Innovation Salon series Celebrate 30+ years of innovation, art and community! Innovation Salon V: The Gaming (R)Evolution: Creating Social Change Through Games New media and alternate reality games are engaging new and more diverse audiences than ever before. In fact, games developed with a social change and/or education agenda are starting to explode into diverse social, educational and business environments. What if games that encouraged people to take action and/or solve real-world problems were developed in tandem with independent artists, non-profit organizations, advocacy groups and government agencies? When nearly 1 in 5 for-profit games fail, how can independent producers successfully create fun and meaningful play that successfully meets more than one bottom line. Featuring panelists (see complete bios below): Cathy Fischer (ITVS Interactive), Alice Petty (Stanford), Susana Ruiz (Take Action Games), Richard Tate (HopeLab), and moderated by Tony Walsh (Phantom Compass). Schedule: 7:00 pm - 8:15 pm Moderated panel 6:15 pm - 6:45 pm Pre-reception drinks & appetizers for BAVC members. Not a member? Visit http://www.bavc.org/meet/membership/ to join Where: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (Screening Room), 701 Mission St @ 3rd in San Francisco, CA 94103-3138 Admission is free! Please RSVP at: https://bavc.wufoo.com/forms/bavc-innovation-salon-v/ Panelists: Cathy Fischer Senior Producer and Content Strategist ITVS Interactive A UC Berkeley grad, Cathy Fischer began her career as a publicity intern for maverick film director Robert Altman. She later worked for the Primetime Emmy Awards and on Academy Award campaigns for feature films, documentaries and shorts. At HBO, Cathy oversaw national campaigns for the HBO Undercover documentary series, Comic Relief, The Josephine Baker Story and others. After serving as director of PR and marketing at the San Francisco International Film Festival, she joined the Independent Television Service (ITVS) and launched ITVS Interactive. Cathy is senior producer and content strategist for ITVS.org and the PBS series Independent Lens, its Inside Indies online magazine, the Independent Lens Online Shorts Festival and ITVS’s Electric Shadows Web-original projects. Since its inception in 2002, the Electric Shadows initiative has funded six online projects: non-linear online documentaries and social issue games created by independent media makers. Electric Shadows sites explore the arts, culture and society through innovative forms and meet the ITVS mission of taking creative risks and advancing civic participation. Titles include: Face to Face, Beyond the Fire, Circle of Stories and Off the Map. Two recent Electric Shadows projects were the innovative games Fatworld, an online video game about obesity in the U.S., and World Without Oil, the alternate reality game that harnessed the collective intelligence of the Internet to imagine and cope with a global oil shock. Electric Shadow projects have garnered a People’s Choice Webby Award, four SXSW Web Awards, Time.com’s “50 Coolest Websites,” among others. Cathy is passionate about uncommon voices, independent thinking and challenging the status quo. AliceAlice Petty Post-Doctoral Fellow, Stanford University Cosultant, Federation of American Scientists’ Discover Babylon Project Awarded her Ph.D. from the department of Near Eastern Studies at the Johns Hopkins University, Alice Petty is an archaeologist whose area of specialization is the language, literature, history and material culture of ancient Iraq. Dr. Petty is a subject matter expert and consultant for the Federation of American Scientists’ Discover Babylon project, an inter-institutional collaboration to create an educational video game for middle-school kids about the origins of writing and literacy in Mesopotamia. The first phase of Discover Babylon was a short game vignette designed for play on a kiosk in the Near Eastern art gallery at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, MD. The second phase, completed in 2005, was a full-length prototype designed for play on a home PC. She continues to be involved in this ongoing project, which is now developing a collaboratively authored gamescape within the virtual world of Second Life. Alice Petty is currently a post-doctoral fellow in the Humanities at Stanford University and her current scholarly interests include the ways in which virtual reconstructions are comparable to conceptual (re)constructions and interpretations of the past. She is also fascinated by the use of Assyrian and Babylonian imagery on Iraqi currency, postage stamps and public art. Susana Ruiz Lead Developer, Darfur is Dying Co-founder, Take Action Games Susana is a film and media artist whose research interests include the intersections between art, journalism, game design and cinema. Susana developed “Darfur Is Dying,” a game for social change, which garnered critical acclaim from experts and journalists and won numerous awards, including the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences’ prestigious Governors Award. The game was said to be “one of the best presentations of life in Darfur by Pulitzer Prize winner New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof. Her most recently completed project, “RePlay: Finding Zoe” is an online game addressing gender stereotyping and has won the Ashoka Changemakers global competition Why Games Matter: A Prescription for Improving Health and Health Care. Susana was a semifinalist for the 2008 Echoing Green Fellowship, which provides funding and support to social entrepreneurs with bold ideas for social change. Social issue-driven games, gameplay metaphors, activist digital art, user-centric design and future cinema are Susana’s principal interests – and while it is an exciting time with much room for advancement and manifold processes, Susana’s commitment lies specifically in the emotional and participatory potential of interactive design. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art as well as a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Southern California's Interactive Media Division in the School of Cinematic Arts, where she will also be conducting her dissertation studies. RichardRichard Tate Director, Communications and Marketing HopeLab Richard is responsible for HopeLab’s public relations and product marketing activities. His focus is ensuring that HopeLab’s work, mission, and values are effectively communicated to key audiences through media coverage, web communications, direct-outreach projects, and public-speaking opportunities. Richard joined HopeLab in 2006, with the launch of HopeLab’s first product, the Re-Mission video game for teens and young adults with cancer. The game and the HopeLab model of customer-focused, research-based product development have received international attention, including coverage in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, U.S. News & World Report, USA Today and Wired. HopeLab has distributed more than 115,000 copies of Re-Mission to 79 countries. Richard has more than 12 years experience in a variety of communications roles. Before joining HopeLab, he served as director of corporate communications for biotechnology company Chiron Corporation. He began his communications career as an editor and journalist and has written for numerous print and online media outlets. Richard has held editorial positions at the national newsmagazine The Advocate, the Los Angeles lifestyle magazine Buzz, Citysearch.com and GameSpy Industries. He is a graduate of the University of Southern California, where he studied English and creative writing. and moderated by: Tony Walsh PicTony Walsh Chief Navigator of Phantom Compass A multi-disciplined creative, Tony Walsh has helped plan, design, write and illustrate compelling, narrative-driven entertainment and educational projects since 1994. His long and productive freelance career ended in 2008 when he founded Phantom Compass, becoming the studio's first full-time employee. With a 25-year passion for playing and building games, Walsh has made play a key component of his career. In 2004 and 2005, Walsh was a game designer and writer for the multi-award-winning Regenesis Extended Reality game series, and in 2006 was a game designer and writer for the Emmy-winning Fallen Alternate Reality Game. In 2007, he was a guest Game Design instructor at the Canadian Film Centre Media Lab, a mentor for Australia's 1-week "Laboratory for Advanced Media Production," and a mentor for the Bay Area Video Coalition's 1-week "Producers Institute for New Media Technologies." In addition to managing Phantom Compass, he teaches a postgraduate-level course on Game Culture and Design for George Brown College, and lends his support to the the Interactive / Media / Design program at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague as a member of the "Pool of Masterminds," an advisory group comprised of professionals and academics. Walsh also serves as an Advisory Board member for the South by Southwest Screenburn game festival in Austin, Texas. A provocateur and cultural commentator, he has been cited in such publications as Wired, Discover, Utne, and the Harvard Business Review. In 2007, he lead a panel discussion on "Avatar-Based Marketing in Synthetic Worlds" at SXSW Screenburn. In 2006, he moderated a top-rated panel on "The Secret Sex Life of Video Games" at South by Southwest, and in 2005 was a panelist on the subject of journalism in virtual worlds.