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October 10, 2006

Off the wall

On Sunday night Steve, Hal and I congregated at the corner of 24th and Mission to check out a free aerial dance performance. Flyaway Productions was premiering "The Live Billboard Project" right above the Chinese Food/Donuts place. It was supposedly a political statement condemning the media's objectification of women, but it just seemed like people dancing on wires and trapezes to really bad music to me. Despite the tunes, it was cool. Especially for free! 30 seconds YouTubed here.

Elsewhere in the arts, every hippie and her dog was at the otherwise outstanding Bluegrass Festival over the weekend, breasts were bared at Smuin Ballet's latest offering at the Palace of Fine Arts on Saturday, and names were dropped last night at the Litquake-themed Porchlight event at the Swedish American Hall. Kathi Kamen Goldmark told of enlisting hotel security to try to coax Hunter S. Thompson out of the Cliff House, Pat Montandon recounted her New York City adventures with lawyer-to-the-stars Melvin Belli, Marcus Ewert spared few details of his teenage tryst with William Burroughs, and Joyce Maynard referenced, much more discreetly, her romance with J.D. Salinger.

Posted by emily at October 10, 2006 1:16 PM