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Port Costa · Port CostaWhile your hippie Uncle Orion and Auntie Ganja were busy waiting for Jerry Garcia outside San Francisco’s Avalon Ballroom during the Summer of Love, another group of weirdos found their own scene around a half hour east of The City, out along the Carquinez Strait.There, outsider artists founded galleries and happenings of real import, from the Port Costa studio where Roy De Forest centered his Nut Art Movement, to the “mad doctor’s laboratory” (…Read Article
From Dive Bars to DIY Studios: The Unexpected New (Old) Epicenter of Bay Area Indie Music
San Francisco, California · San FranciscoAs partner/owner of two bars on different ends of town—The Treasury (200 Bush #101) in the Financial District and White Cap (3608 Taraval St.) in the Outer Sunset—and founder of Deep Water Ice, which supplies bars and restaurants with custom clear-cut ice, it’s fair to say Carlos Yturria has a grasp on a broad swath of the local scene. Yturria is hands-on at all three of his enterprises. At Deep Water, he does everything from wielding the band s…Read Article
What's In Your Bay, White Cap + The Treasury Owner Carlos Yturria?
San Francisco, California · San FranciscoBeau McCall grew up in Philadelphia. He loved crafts—and in the mid-80s, he left home for Harlem, wanting to do something creative but not quite sure what. He found it when a friend took him to a show at the Harlem Institute of Fashion. McCall loved it and decided his work would be in the show the next year. His friend laughed. But the following year, McCall brought denim pieces he’d embellished with buttons to show the institute’s faculty. “I j…Read Article
