Aloha, baby -- and don't forget to write! -- Will "The Thrill" Viharo, cult movie cabaret impresario
Silke is about the ONLY person whose cultural appraisals and judgments I 100 percent trust ... she has the most omniscient perspective of the most cutting-edge creativity in ALL areas of culture. I would love to have seen her write a history of the late '80s-'90s -- Artists by the Dock of the Bay -- even in A-Z encyclopedia format -- our memories are precious and really are all we have, and I fear that many truly great and amazing artists, concerts, shows, performances, dog-and-pony shows, et al. have been completely, inadequately documented. If only San Francisco had all the New York media ... well, then it probably wouldn't be San Francisco anymore -- everyone would be too self-conscious and reflexively always self-promotional, the way the too-many-rats-in-a-cage New Yawkers behave, 24/7.
Jillian Northrup
Silke Tudor.
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Silke has an integrity, purity of perception, honesty, and ability to forthrightly voice her evaluations while somehow magically almost never offending anybody! Above all, her enthusiasm is, as they say, contagious. I've never been disappointed with an "act" Silke recommends. I'm glad that in the past few years she has been able to write essays on out-of-town cultural phenomena -- caravans, small-town fairs and carnivals, stock car races, whatever ... and her SF Weekly awards which she curated are always the best concerts of the year ... even if you had a million dollars you couldn't put on a better party! I'm still in shock that she's leaving us, and hope that she will "wise up" and return as soon as possible, although I fear the wisdom of that adage, "You can't go home again."
Silke -- world-class impresario talent with an all-too-rare genuineness, authenticity, true-to-her-instincts, cut-to-the-quick integrity ... she's a poet, really, and one with an unatrophied, deeply moral conscience. Personally, I don't think New York deserves her, but there we are ... life is full of tragedy! -- V. Vale, RE/Search founder
If I set my mind in reverse and shuttle back at high-speed review skimming over everything except the Silke stuff but briefly freeze-framing our experiences together, I end up with a slide show of adventures that would take a lifetime to explain. Yeah, she's wonderful. Yeah, she's a great writer. Yeah, her unique and astute observations are amazing. Yeah, she looks great in a towel. Yeah, she makes a mean meatloaf. But you already know all that. And she's leaving us ... ABANDONING us!!! So I ain't got nothing nice to say about Silke. As a matter of fact, let me tell you a closely guarded secret of Silke's: her middle name is Sunshine.
We'll miss you Silke Sunshine Tudor! -- Chicken John, club proprietor and provocateur
