East Bay Area


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Jun 10

The National at The Fox Theater, Oakland

The National at Fox Theater, Oakland.

This was one of the best shows I’ve been to in awhile. Photos can be found here. Review at Spinning Platters has now been posted:

“High Violet, the fifth full-length album from Cincinnati-bred, Brooklyn-based band The National, has defied the Law of Diminishing Returns for me: each and every subsequent listen of an individual track increases my level of aural pleasure not to mention obsession with dissecting every lyric, note, and hidden meaning behind the combination of both.”

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Apr 10

Jupiter, Berkeley


It’s been a whole week since I’ve been in Berkeley and, needless to say, I miss it a bit. In the entire two years I’ve spent there working full-time, I had never heard of or stumbled across Jupiter brewing house and restaurant. That all changed when my friend Matt suggested we meet there for lunch.

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