A Spring Fling!

It is with great pleasure that I get to sing yet again in this very special soul-formal! Our friend Marc Dantona, a.k.a. Dusty Stax, hosts another fancy dress-up “Adult Prom” with a live band, fully equipped with back up singing & dancing. Honestly this is the most fun I have had on a Saturday night in SF maybe ever. I sang last summer with these folks and then had the opportunity to attend (and not perform) this last winter and WHOOOO-EEEE I had a blast! I danced and danced, everyone looked super fly, there were drinks and photos and tequila and men asking me to dance and dirty little make-outs in the bathroom… IT. WAS. FUN. I highly recommend you come this time around.

Get yer tickets HERE

Love ❤ Aloha

Happy Whale Hat made by Drew out of construction paper and chopsticks, Happy Valentine’s Day, and Happy Birthday Susan + Graham! xoxo

KIOSKs

Alisa Grifo’s shop Kiosk has been a major influence on what we do at Gravel & Gold. She curates a range of products during her travels all over the world and offers them in an exhibition format at her shop in SoHo, New York. Each item is presented with a full explanation, which comes along with the item to its new owner.

We have worked with Alisa to set up an exchange between our two shops. Our  Kiosk kiosk here at Gravel & Gold combines some faithful standards from the ongoing Kiosk collection along with a few items from Alisa’s current America #4 group.

Please, in the flesh, all the way out here in San Francisco, come experience how marvelous it is to strike the Xylophone, haul the Steele Log Carrier, manage your dinner dates with help from the Bread & Puppet 2012 Calendar, sharpen your turkey carver with a handy sharpening tool, open and then seal! your non-alcoholic cider with a Hermetus Bottle Opener, and test your insane cakes with as ingenious not-a-broom Cake Tester.

Those in New York, we hope you enjoy our own selection of West Coast warm-makers when you make your necessary stop off at Kiosk. There you’ll find  our familiar West Marin Trees Bath Salt, Peter Scherr ceramic pipes, Osborn/Woods postcards, wildcrafted Smudge Sticks, Pt. Reyes Gold Hoop earrings, Emmy’s pickled Tumeric Cauliflower, George Knowles spoons, and Slip-N-Snip Scissors.

Many thanks to New York Magazine for the cousin coinage and thanks to Refinery 29 for the pics of Kiosk.

Opening: Remains in the End Times

Our good friends over at The Popular Workshop are doing stellar things these days! Their shows are getting bigger & better and quite frankly have me squirming with excitement for the next opening!  In the words of hanging with Nate Hooper, co-founder and mega sweet dude, “The next show is retardedly gangster”. Oh and it is! Yoshi Sodeoka, Rosa Menkman, Daniel Menche, JK Keller, and Cristopher Cichocki are the artists on display starting December 2nd. These audio, media and sculpture powerhouses put together a show lasting up to the most current D-day on the horizon.  As a big F-you to the doomsday-ers, these artists have taken an already existing shit-show of smog, ruin, global warming and hi-technology content and morphed it, dwarfed it, made and example of it, and molded it into, well,  psychedelia that will TRIP. YOU. OUT. For example: THIS.

I am told that vodka has been donated to assist in the tripping… Arguably on par with I-Dosing?

Opening Reception: Friday, Dec. 2nd 6p—10p

Ongoing through 10/30/11

The Popular Workshop

1173 Sutter Street

Tuesday – Saturday

12p — 6p

Ashley Thayer at Tartine Bakery

Aequum, Ashley Thayer’s installation of hand-dyed textiles, quilts, and paintings is opening tomorrow night at Tartine Bakery. We are delighted, as well, to offer a selection of Ashley’s scarves and napkins here at the shop….we’re also planning to offer a workshop with Ashley to come soon down the line. Much to enjoy!

Curious about the ceramics here? I was. Aren’t they marvelous! They’re by Zachary Leener, whose work I’ve much admired down at Iko Iko.

Cut Out

Rachel Kaye’s solo show of drawings, paintings, and sculpture, CUT OUT, opens tonight at Triple Base, from 7 – 10 pm. They’ve also published a catalogue that surveys Rachel’s work from 2008-2011. A must have!

The show will run til November 20th.

The Greenhorns Screening Tonight

Tonight, I’m finally going to get my chance to see The Greenhorns, a documentary about young farmers that my friend Severine started many moons ago and which has since become its own movement. It is screening at the Roxie, at 7:15, along with Roots and Hollers as part of this year’s Doc Fest.