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February Events Calendar
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February 1st, 2012

Feb-You-Ary

Posted by: Tom Galbraith under Culture, Free Time, Our Neighborhood

Warmest February EVER! So get out and check the following entertainment events. You’ll probably see an Astro employee or two at one of these here happenings. Please check venues for accurate times and pricing. Click Read More for dates and info.

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Warmest February EVER! So get out and check the following entertainment events. You’ll probably see an Astro employee or two at one of these here happenings. Please check venues for accurate times and pricing. Click Read More for dates and info.

Feb 1st - John Baldessari, Class Assignments - California College of the Arts, FREE

Feb 2nd - Textonomy - Tommy Tourell Gallery, FREE

Feb 4th - Hadouken - Art Space gallery 7:00, $3

Feb 4th - Eleanor Friedberger and Dominant Legs - Independent. $15

Feb 5th - Pug Sunday - Alta Plaza Park 2:30 PM

Feb 7th - Granta 118: Exit Strategies Launch - City Light Bookstore 7:00 PM

Feb 7th - Leni Stern And The Masters of African Percussion - Yoshi’s SF 8:00 PM

Feb 11th through 14th - The Ultimate Date Tour - Exploratorium

Feb 11th - SF IndieFest RollerDisco - CELLspace, 8:00 PM, $10 Admission

Feb 14th - The Eternity Ball - Fort Mason 6:30 PM $100 (Tux Rental Included)

Feb 17th and 18th - Audium 9 - Audium Theater of Sound Sculptured Space, 8:30, $20

Feb 18th - Open Make: Time - Exploratorium

Feb 20th - Serra Bowl Meltdown w/Hysterics,Needles,Culture Kids - Serra Bowl 8:00 PM

Feb 22nd - Sketch Tuesdays - 111 Minna Gallery, 6:00 PM

Feb 25th - Barracuda - 111 Minna Gallery 10:00 PM

Feb 28th - ArtSpan Social Media 101 for Artists - SOMArts Cultural Center 6:00 PM

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Assembly Line Collective's Hadouken
January 30th, 2012

Norio's Art at The Space Gallery Saturday Feb 4th.

Posted by: Norio under Culture, Free Time, Our Neighborhood

Hadouken is the latest art show by the Assembly Line Collective from Los Angeles, and they have asked our very own Norio Fujikawa to participate. Along with the show there will be entertainment provided by DJ Inkfat, Recess and Meeat. The show is at the Space Gallery on Saturday Feb 4th at 7:00. Come check it out and say Hi to Norio. The show will run through the end of February.

Art Space Gallery, 1141 Polk Street, $3.00 Admission….cheap!
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Tom’s SOMA Review #15
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January 27th, 2012

Tin Vietnamese Food

Posted by: Tom Galbraith under Culture, Our Neighborhood

Working in SOMA still has its challenges as far as good cheap places to eat are concerned. For the past couple years, without a doubt, the go-to restaurant in SOMA for lunch has been Tin. A delicious and inexpensive Vietnamese spot that delivers the goodness to your table every time, at Tin all of the ingredients are fresh and tasty. I may have to hand over what little street cred I have after I say that Tin is better than Tu Lan. Yep I just said it, TIN IS BETTER THAN TU LAN.

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Working in SOMA still has its challenges as far as good cheap places to eat are concerned. For the past couple years, without a doubt, the go-to restaurant in SOMA for lunch has been Tin. A delicious and inexpensive Vietnamese spot that delivers the goodness to your table every time, at Tin all of the ingredients are fresh and tasty. I may have to hand over what little street cred I have after I say that Tin is better than Tu Lan. Yep I just said it, TIN IS BETTER THAN TU LAN. I’m cool with being wrong, if wrong tastes this right. What Tin lacks in hipster charm, it more than makes up with the scrumptious food blazing out of their kitchen. One tip is to show up about 10 minutes before noon or well after 1:00 because the secret has been out a while about how good the food is. Get yourself to Tin, you’ll be glad you did. Below is what we ordered:

Cha Gio / crispy-fried rolls with pork, shrimp, jicama, taro, woodear mushrooms, glass noodles – 6
Grilled Lemongrass Pork Sandwich, with side mixed greens salad or soup of the day $7.50
Pho Bo / rare beef & brisket with rice noodles in beef broth $7.50
Grilled 5-Spice Chicken with rice $8.00
Wonton Noodles / shrimp & pork wontons, xa-xiu pork, egg
noodles $7.50

Vietnamese-style coffee with condensed milk $3.00

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Making The Rounds At CES
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January 23rd, 2012

Buzzing Round' The Hive

Posted by: Caleb under Culture, Design

Ah, that CES time of the year has once again come and gone. The air was dry and smelled like smoke, perfume, money, and fun. For a conference that is storied to be dying out, you couldn’t tell by the massive numbers of product nerds buzzing around the hive.

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Ah, that CES time of the year has once again come and gone. The air was dry and smelled like smoke, perfume, money, and fun. For a conference that is storied to be dying out, you couldn’t tell by the massive numbers of product nerds buzzing around the hive.

Navigating through the honeycomb, I noticed lots of sexy, technically perfect machines. But missing was the improved entertainment, content control, the blend of other devices, and the use of killer entertainment to go with my hot new OLED.

As always, phones were hot…. but the actual phones were more than outnumbered by the tons of phone cases and accessories. Of course these were targeted at the fashion end of gadgets. Fitness minded and stylish wearable gadgetry were well accounted for.

I found the high-end stereo corridor the biggest guilty pleasure. We cruised through the audiophile snobbery — nothing but the best, the Aston Martins of stereo. With marketing speak about 5-axis CNC machines the bragging points come from the perfection of materials, machines, and cabinet making at levels unseen Theses products are the real industrial eye-candy.

My thoughts to make for a more intriguing CES, would be the inclusion of entertainment moguls and other content makers to transform the CES gadgetry into stories, art, entertainment, and not just sweet “electronics” but a comedy, a drama with real heroes and actors! Bring the film and art that creates our backdrop on life to the excellent scale and design of consumer electricity…Lifestyle, emotion, and culture – that’s what we are all working on.

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Simple.TV Making Waves At CES
January 11th, 2012

Simple.TV On Engadget

Posted by: Mark under Design

The Astro designed Simple.TV is generating noise at this year's CES. Simple.TV combines a powerful HD tuner & DVR into one beautifully designed package that allows for convenient watching anytime anywhere on connected devices. Check out what Engadget has to say about this fresh device.
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