Friday Night in Canoga Park: The Menzingers with Off With Their Heads, Broadway Calls, The Bogarts and Bad Form at the Cobalt Cafe

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Thursday Night in Portrero Hill: Into It. Over It with The World is a Beautiful Place & I am No Longer Afraid to Die and A Great Big Pile of Leaves at Bottom of the Hill

(Video courtesy Angela Ngo) (Videos courtesy Elliott Marshall)

Tuesday Evening in Chelsea: ESSAM in Conversation with Svetlana Mintcheva at The School of Visual Arts

 

(Video courtesy The School of Visual Arts) It was great to see ESSAM -- we knew him as Essam Attia when he was one of our best Literature and Writing students for two semesters in the 2006-2007 school year -- return to The School of Visual Arts to discuss his work talk about art in the street as being distinct from art in a museum, regulations of public space and the relationship between an artist’s mission and the constraints of the law. with Svetlana Mintcheva, founding director of the Arts Advocacy Project at the National Coalition Against Censorship.

A 21-Year-Old’s Diary Entries From Early August, 1972 | Thought Catalog

A 21-Year-Old’s Diary Entries From Early August, 1972 | Thought Catalog

Late Sunday Afternoon in Pacific Heights: Euromaidan/Євромайдан Demonstration Against Ukrainian Violence and Repression at the German Consulate

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Early Sunday Afternoon in Berkeley: BandWorks School of Rock presents Like Fun on a Bun, Stacks O' Sound, Stick Figures, SEGOL, The What, Acid Reign, Bad Mommy!, Susan Lee + The Generals, Chocolate Cake Disguised as Muffins and More Bands at Ashkenaz

(Videos courtesy BandWorks) (Video courtesy sassafras)

Saturday Night in SoMa: Planet Booty with Fog Dub and DJ E Da Boss at Slim's

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Saturday Afternoon in Chinatown: San Francisco Chinese New Year Celebration presents Tibetan Sowing Garden Dance and Little Trumpet Dance at Washington Street & Grant Avenue

(Videos courtesy Lash Tec)

Friday Night on Lower Polk: Useless Eaters, Scraper and Generation Loss at the Hemlock Tavern

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Thursday Night in Hayes Valley: Betty Who at the Rickshaw Stop

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Wednesday Night in The Mission: Word Performances with Nato Green, Tim Toaster Henderson, Sylvie Simmons, Zarina Zabrisky, Simon Rogghe, Zahra Noorbakhsh, Doug Cordell, Miss Erma with Andres Vera, Todd Siegel and Cybele Zufolo Siegel at The Lost Church

(Videos courtesy Word Performances)

Tuesday Night in West Hollywood: Islands at Troubadour

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Monday Night in Westlake: Vanaprasta at the Bootleg Theater

(Videos courtesy Brian J)

 

Monday Morning in South L.A.: The 29th Annual Kingdom Day Parade on Crenshaw from Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard to Vernon Avenue

(Videos courtesy Kedron Chambers) (Videos courtesy Steve Clark)

Sunday Night in Silver Lake: Bones Muhroni, Ivory DeVille and Bogan Via at The Satellite

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Saturday Night in Canoga Park: The Fire in Your Eyes at Cobalt Cafe

(Videos by Jason Gould courtesy The Fire in Your Eyes)

A 21-Year-Old’s Diary Entries From Late July, 1972 | Thought Catalog

A 21-Year-Old’s Diary Entries From Late July, 1972 | Thought Catalog

Friday Night in Echo Park: Superhumanoids at the Echoplex

(Videos courtesy Brian J)

 

Thursday Night in Highland Park: Jeff Enzor, Garrett Walters, Mitch The Champ and Roman Candles at The Freak House

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Wednesday Night in West Hollywood: X at Whisky a Go Go's 50th Anniversary Celebration on the Sunset Strip

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Wednesday Afternoon in Borough Park: Tenants of 230-232 Schenectady Avenue Rally Against Attempt to Flip Illegally Purchased Brooklyn Homes in front of Sanford Solny Office on 13th Avenue

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Tuesday Night in Journal Square: Neutral Milk Hotel at Loew's Jersey Theatre

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A 21-Year-Old’s Diary Entries From Mid-July, 1972 | Thought Catalog

 A 21-Year-Old’s Diary Entries From Mid-July, 1972 | Thought Catalog

Sunday Night in the East Village: Globalfest presents Baloji at Webster Hall

(Video courtesy Ron Ozer)

Diary of a Forty-Year-Old First-Year Law Student: October 14-20, 1991 | Kinja

Diary of a Forty-Year-Old First-Year Law Student: October 14-20, 1991 | Kinja

Saturday Night in East Williamsburg: For the Philippines Benefit Show for the Victims of Typhoon Haiyan with Versus, Pow Wow!, Crazy Pills, Quiet Loudly, The Planes, and Let's Be Loveless at Shea Stadium

(Videos courtesy Dean Keim)

Saturday Morning in Prospect Park: Trumpeter at the Grand Army Plaza Greenmarket

(Video courtesy Brenda Becker)

Friday Night in Greenwich Village: Winter JazzFest presents Peter Brotzmann with Jason Adasiewicz and Hamid Drake at Judson Memorial Church

Friday Evening in Greenwich Village: "The Power of Progressive Education: Can Creativity Be Taught?" at The New School

(Video courtesy The New School)