Suddenly, Curry is flavoring everything
Liz Long notes that the Hog’s Apothecary in Oakland is featuring a starter plate of “Warrior Wings” and a “Stephen Currywurst Sausage Sandwich.”
And sports fan Mike Sugerman of KPIX has a new tagline for the home team. “Warriors: Ballet With Balls.”
Jeff Parrott says that after the Giants’ series with the Rockies, team announcer Dave Flemming suggested that the players wait until they get back to California from Denver to wring out their uniforms.
And picking up a tip from The Chronicle a few weeks ago, Mary Bush told her brother, Chuck Polityka of Portland, “If you drop an ice cube on the floor, don’t throw it in the sink. Put it in the pot of a houseplant.” To which he countered: “If you are sweating, go out and roll on the lawn.”
Katy Butler, who has been teaching at Esalen, says that people there “took the news pretty calmly that the crowning episode of ‘ Mad Men’ featured Don Draper fleeing Manhattan advertising for Esalen.” The Esalen- like scenes in the episode were actually shot at a private house nearby, but not on the campus, she says. ( Butler also reports on a sign over the door to the kitchen there: “Warning: Nuts Present.”)
Bobby Conte Thornton, a student at the Urban School in San Francisco when he won Bay Area Cabaret’s 2011 Bay Area Teen Idol contest, went to college, worked summer stock ... and returns for a Bay Area Cabaret show at the Venetian Room on Sunday. It’s his first professional solo gig back in his hometown.
Adda Dada was on the Super Shuttle with a woman from Michigan, who proclaimed, “With all the great transit in the Bay Area, why would anyone drive?” At the Beanery in Alameda, Scott was listening and watching as a woman in a Burning Man hoodie waited in line with her child. The little girl was wearing a multicolored furry hood with a horn sticking out of the top. When a man walked by and said “Wow, a unicorn!” the mother looked at him and said, “She’s a sky bird. It’s an easy mistake to make.” Celebrated bartender Michael
McCourt, who was at Perry’s, then the Washington Square Bar & Grill, has now moved to Original Joe’s on Washington Square. Garry Graham says that McCourt, 79- year- old “Irish storyteller,” “is now out from behind the bar and is free to roam, greet, talk and sit with anyone and everyone.” This, I believe, is the equivalent of being a professor emeritus.
Alfred Jan thinks the “SOUL MD” license plate holder is a fan of Robert Leslie Bellem’s 1930s pulp magazine character the Surgeon of Souls. And Ron Keimach is thinking it could belong to Stephen “Doc” Kupka, founding member of Tower of Power ( which played in Sacramento last week).
Art is where you find it:
At the Moke Hill Music Festival, June 5 to 7, in Mokelumne Hill ( Calaveras County), Walter Anderson will perform his piece “Vessels.” Anderson’s teacher, Allen Biggs, organizer of the festival, says that the idea for the piece, which uses the sound of water in metal bowls, came to Anderson while he was washing dishes.
To make it site specific, “we will be using gold pans to perform it in the Gold Country,” says Biggs, and to make it climate- specific, it will be performed with “water from the Mokelumne River, which we will then return to the river, so it can continue flowing down to the delta.”
A new art show celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Recology Artist in Residence Program opens June 11, from 5 to 8 p. m. A statement of purpose that accompanied notice of this exhibition described artists working on site, scavenging for materials.
“The results of hyper- consumerism, easy disposability, planned obsolescence and our general love of ‘ stuff’ are disturbingly plentiful. Not all artists necessary make work that directly addresses these issues, but all residence participants do feel the impact of being intimately exposed to the waste stream.”
I am picturing the artist in straw hat and summer frock, lounging beside the waste stream, perhaps eating a bowl of cherries.
“She specifically said she wanted gluten.” Woman to friend, overheard at the de Young Museum by Jim MacCloskey