("Coral Reefer" by Mickey Hart)
Grateful Dead fans can stop gazing at all those old posters and tie-dyes on Haight Street and check out more recent works of art by a member of those iconic hippies. Dead drummer Mickey Hart is having an art show that opens today at Dennis Rae Art Gallery (a gallery that, coincidentally, also has a show by Tony Curtis this month). Hart's exhibition comprises pieces of redwood worked into sculptures of dragons, squid, and motorcycles. The show opens to the public
Metallica, Neil Young, and Keyshia Cole were among the Bay Area acts on the Grammys' nominee list, which made the rounds in the music industry today. Metallica is up for "Best Metal Performance," "Best Rock Instrumental Performance," and "Best Rock Album," (all related to Death Magnetic). Young got the nod for "Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance"; while Cole got her nomination for "Best Female Vocal R&B Performance." Local artists also made it on the Grammy picks in the areas of folk (Joan Bae
Attention Deadheads: the show will go on. After a five-year hiatus, the remaining members of the Grateful Dead (Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart) will hit the road with keyboardist Jeff Chimenti and Allman Brothers Band/Gov't Mule guitarist Warren Haynes this spring. The band, calling itself just the Dead these days, was inspired to dust off more oldies after Hart, Lesh and Weir played an Obama rally at the Warfield last Feb. The Dead will take its trip around the country sta
Global Drum Project
Former Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart didn't invent world music. But he was among the first to take it out of the hands of ethnomusicologists and into the clutches of pop culture. Eighteen years ago, Hart and tabla titan Zakir Hussain won the first World Music Grammy for their spellbindingly percussive 1991 collaboration Planet Drum. Well, guess what, cats and kittens? History has repeated itself, sort of, as the Global Drum Project -- which again teams Hart and Husse
Chet Helms and his Avalon Ballroom were the heart and soul of the Summer of Love. Thirty years of stupid business moves later, love is all that's left.
Eric "Doc" SmithEric "Doc" Smith -- a musician and environmental activist who those keeping track of such things have noticed showing up at an increasing number of politically important events and standing on the podium side of a growing tally of City Hall demonstrations -- told SF Weekly this morning he's officially filing his papers today to run for District 10 supervisor.Smith joins what is already the most packed electoral field -- he's the eighth would-be successor to Supervisor Sophie Maxw
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