After a three-week hiatus (it's been a busy month), SFist Memoirs is back with the second half of our conversation with the legendary San Francisco party girl, Pat Montandon, about her noteworthy first experiences as a young woman moving to San Francisco in the 1960s. (Read Part I here.) From coming to the rescue of people crashing their cars near her apartment on the crooked part of Lombard to wearing sequins in the Tenderloin to being the tenth person in the world to have heart surgery and survive, Pat's lived an extraordinary life, and these stories are just the tip of the iceberg.
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SFist Memoirs: Pat Montandon, Part II - 'I Fixed My Heart In San Francisco'
SFist Tonight, 5/21: Porchlight's 'I Surrender'
Tonight, Porchlight storytellers talk about sweet surrender, Sparta wakes up from a three-year "nap," and Food Network's Ted Allen speaks in conversation at JCCSF.
SFist Memoirs: Pat Montandon, San Francisco's Golden Girl
SFist Memoirs is beyond honored to be featuring the magnanimous Pat Montandon this week and next. Fans of San Francisco high society and local history in general are likely already very familiar with Pat and her unlimited arsenal of Bay Area stories, many of which were documented in her memoir, Oh The Hell of It All.
SFist Memoirs: Anthony Gordon, Delinquent Teenager
Continuing with SFist Memoirs' tradition of featuring spouses' back-to-back stories, we present Anthony Gordon, Loquat's bass player and husband to Kylee Swenson Gordon. Anthony took our request to hear stories about aspects of San Francisco that no longer exist very seriously and with very comic effect. Loquat is celebrating the release of their new album, We Could Be Arsonists, with a party at The Independent on Friday. Win tickets over at FunCheapSF!
SFist Memoirs: Kylee Swenson Gordon, Small Town Girl
This week's SFist Memoirs begins in the early 1990s with Kylee Swenson Gordon, who is one of the founding members of the long-time, S.F. band, Loquat. Kylee's first San Francisco experiences as a young small-town girl from Minnesota served as an impressive crash-course in rock 'n' roll, helping to shape her into the music veteran that she is today.
SFist Memoirs: San Francisco Light
This week's SFist Memoirs features Lt. Dwayne Newton of the San Francisco Fire Department, who's also an S.F. native and veteran photojournalist. Dwayne says he owes his passion for photojournalism to growing up in San Francisco in the '60s, from attending anti-war protests and "staring at hippies" to watching Shaft in the theater with his dad and brother at age 12 and consuming every magazine and newspaper he could get his hands on. Take it away, Dwayne!
SFist Memoirs: A Baseball Love Story
Reader Jayn Pettingill brings us another great piece this week about her Great Aunt Maye and Maye's husband Tony Lazzeri, a major league baseball player — most notably of the New York Yankees. Both Maye and Tony were San Francisco natives who grew up in the Sunset and Cow Hollow respectively. Be sure to check out Jayn's story from last week! We hope there are many more to come.
Pop-Up Magazine Issue 6 Tickets On Sale April 3rd
OK, time to warm up those fingers, literary fans! Pop-Up Magazine just announced that Issue Number 6 will be taking place on April 25th at Davies Symphony Hall. Tickets for the event will go on sale next Tuesday, April 3rd at Noon.
SFist Memoirs: Dinah Washington
This week's SFist Memoirs comes to us from reader Jayn Pettingill, who is a fourth generation San Franciscan as well as an accomplished saxophonist and composer. In this fabulous piece, Jayn introduces us to her uncle, a jazz-loving policeman in the 1950s, who worked a night beat in the Fillmore District on occasion. This is our first reader submission, which we hope will inspire more readers to drop us a line!
SFist Memoirs: Alternate Realities, Part II
This week, we continue with Eric Becker's stories, which delve into the late '80s/early '90s, in which Eric picks a fight with James Hetfield, goes against popular opinion regarding Anton of Brian Jonestown Massacre, and tells of an account in which he had syringes thrown at him on stage with his band The Big Sissy Brigade at the Cactus Club. Plus, more!
SFist Memoirs: Alive In Albany
This week's SFist Memoirs takes us to the East Bay in the early 1990s, as contributor Rene Becker shares some coming-of-age stories from her time as a teenager throwing spaghetti at Blatz at the 924 Gilman, smoking weed on Telegraph Avenue, and most importantly, giving Mr. Bungle's Mike Patton a piggy-back ride on stage. Rene moved to Albany from Sacramento at age twelve and lives in San Francisco now. Take it away, Rene!
SFist Memoirs: Peace On Sixth Street
This week's SFist Memoirs contributor is Reynaldo R. Cayetano Jr., a self-taught film photographer whose collective Inks of Truth — a Guardian Best of the Bay 2011 winner — has been engaging and empowering the Sixth Street neighborhood through the arts. Reynaldo grew up on Sixth Street when his family moved to San Francisco from the Philippines in 1993 when he was six years old. Be sure to peruse his collection of photographs, some of which were published by Hamburger Eyes in Rey's 2011 zine, Sixth Sense.
SFist Tonight, 2/20: Persephone's Bees
Perspehone's Bees at Cafe Du Nord, hot, local chefs at Bar Agricole, and a wide range of love stories at Verdi Club.
SFist Memoirs: Hardly Strictly Family [Updated]
In honor of the big Warren Hellman tribute concert happening on Sunday, the schedule of which you can find over at SF Weekly, we've invited Corie Woods to talk about her experience as an avid fan who's attended every installment of the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival since its inception in 2001, oftentimes throwing her birthday party there.
SFist Memoirs: Paid To Party
This week's installment of SFist Memoirs comes from Jim Doeppers, the uncle of this contributor. In 1973, Jim drove his hippie van from the Midwest to San Francisco at the tender age of 23 and instantly immersed himself in the counter culture of the time, where he remained for the next twenty years. From growing his own crops in Humboldt County and being Jerry Garcia's friend and drug connection to working the houseboat docks in Sausalito, and then ultimately ending up in rehab, Jim has experienced the party lifestyle inside and out. Let's start from the very beginning, shall we?
SFist Tonight, 2/1: 'Midnight In Paris'/'The Moderns'
See Paris through rose-colored glasses, learn about why Hitler jokes were prevalent even in Nazi Germany, and hear some skilled storytellers tell randomly themed tales without any scripts or notes.
SFist Tonight, 1/21: Hush, Muni Diaries Live
Geishas abound at 941 Geary, Muni fans tell their stories at the Elbo Room, and jazz icons take over the silver screen at JCCSF.
SFist Tonight, 1/16: Bringing The Noise For MLK
TRIBUTE: Youth Speaks presents its 15th Annual Bringing the Noise for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. celebration, a showcase of work by young writers throughout the Bay Area paying tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. as a real activist and real man, not a martyr or legend. (7 p.m., Herbst Theatre, 401 Van Ness Avenue)
SFist Tonight, 12/9: Winston Smith Punk Art
ART: Punk art surrealist Winston Smith presents his one-night only Annual Studio Show, featuring new and classic originals for sale. Check out his gallery. There's some pretty rad stuff in there. (7 to 11 p.m., Grant's Tomb Gallery, 50A Bannam Street)
SFist Tonight, 11/28: Horrible Bosses, Porchlight Open Door
STORYTELLING: Have a story to tell about holiday excess? Then head over to the monthly Porchlight Open Door, to tell your 5-minute anecdote for a chance to win $50. "Sex, drugs, food, love, pain, -- even OCD handwashers entirely welcome!" (7 p.m., Hemlock Tavern, 1131 Polk Street)
SFist Tonight, 9/28: Muni Diaries Live Reunion, Richie Spice, Banned Books Talk
STORYTELLING: The talented folks at Muni Diaries, who are seriously funny people in person, are hosting their first Muni Diaries Live Reunion and Open Mic, featuring Muni Diaries Live alumni telling the stories that they didn't tell the first time around. Additionally, special guest Anna Conda will be at the event reading the winning review from Muni Diaries' Muni Google Places contest. (6:30 to 9 p.m., Elbo Room, 647 Valencia Street)
SFist Tonight, 8/3: World on a Wire, Fireside Storytelling, Habitat for Insanity
FILM: The newly restored dystopic 1973 science-fiction epic, World on a Wire, which is a "cracked, boundlessly inventive take on future paranoia" is a previously "unseen three-and-a-half-hour labyrinth from one of cinema’s 'kinkiest geniuses'". (7 p.m., Roxie Theater, 3117 16th Street)
SFist Tonight, 8/1: 'The Goonies,' Slim's Pop-Up Series, LGBT Democratic Club 40th Anniversary
FILM: The Red Devil Lounge has a weekly cure for the Monday blues with their ongoing free movie screenings. This week's film is the classic family flick, The Goonies, starring Sean Astin, Josh Brolin and Corey Feldman. (7 p.m., Red Devil Lounge, 1695 Polk Street)
SFist Tonight, 7/6: Jack Leamy, Tim Cohen's Magic Trick, "High As a Kite"
ART: The Tournesol Exhibition in association with Headlands Center for the Arts presents this year's Tournesol Awardee Jack Leamy's Bigfoot/Littlefoot, an intriguing collection of paintings that often feature his wife and son, portraying mythology that's "both idiosyncratic and universal in scope" and enact "both the personal poetic, and at times universal archetypes." (6 p.m., The Luggage Store Gallery, 1007 Market Street)
SFist Tonight, 7/5: Panoramic Landscapes, Porchlight's Brushes With Fame 2, Religious Girls
ART: Brian Gross Fine Art presents Appellation Series, an ongoing series of landscape photographs by California artist, Lewis deSoto, in which he seamlessly merges together 50 to 200 photographs per image into panoramic landscapes, documenting the structures of wine-growing regions in California. (6 p.m., Brian Gross Fine Art at One Post Street, One Post Street)
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STORYTELLING: Celebrate three years of the fabulous Muni Diaries at Muni Diaries Live 5 tonight. Bring a Muni tale with you and hit the stage with H.P. Mendoza, screen writer and composer of Colma: the Musical, Joyce Lee, two-time Oakland Spoken Word Grand Slam Champion, and Kirk Read, writer and mastermind curator of Smack Dab and K’vets, along with MissionMission‘s Ariel Dovas and Muni Diaries Live: Breaking it Down audience favorite Jesse James.
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MUSIC: Musician Dina Emerson, who "combines voice, text, electronics, physical theater and specifically chosen physical objects/materials to create works that defy categorization," will perform a new collection of work that was inspired by bees - cooperation, pollination, fertility, and such concepts, using wineglasses, voice, and video projection.
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STORYTELLING: Porchlight Presents: Brushes with Fame, features Bay Area luminaries and "nobodies," including Edinburgh Castle barman Alan Black, Litquake co-founder Jack Boulware, burlesque performer Lady Monster, theater producer Bruce Pachtman, actress Patricia Rosestar, and musician Kevin Thomson divulging all the brilliant details surrounding their brushes with fame as extras, actors, and gawkers, complete with incriminating footage. Hosted by Arline Klatte and Beth Lisick.
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