Bestsey & Nicki. NYC. Jessica Maria. SF. By Way of Albany, CA.

Over in SF we're wrapping up Cocktail Week.
Our East Bay Hotsy Totsy bartendress supreme, Jessica Maria, gets drink pix all up in the Huffington Post..
(mind you I sat in on the process for this concoction creation by way of a kismet time killin')

Oh. And Over At Roxie Until Thursday...

Seems rather appropriate in this mood of alternative action.
Catch it over in the mission before it's out on the 19th!

You Can Bet Your Last Money....THIS Will Be on HIT!!

Cafe Du Nord.
Tonight.
A very hip spot if you go for a good reason.
And tonight there couldn't be a better reason to get your as$ in there.
You'll definitely be glad you went.

This is hip-hop; WORLD CLASS.

See Graphic Attack! Before It's Over and Out!!

I couldn't cop photo's until the Bay to Breakers this morning.
Had to wade through all the drunken debauchery.
But Seriously.

See the show.
It's curated by some really heavy hitter art gals: Brooklyn gallery driver Melissa Mc Craig Welles and NYC's super ridiculously uber-skilled Andrea Von Bujdoss.
(that's her piece to the right of Cope's..) mad murderous.

1AM is a killer gallery.
And not to mention their staff is MAD NICE!
I attached a flick from someone piecing outside from 2009, on the raccoon piece....

-bwlp

Cope2 Interview in Juxtapoz, May 2010

Okie doke, like I told you all back on Cinco De Mayo, Cope2 is dope.
And, it looks like over the past few days he's been up to was' good in SF.
(the timing is a bit haunting...) Imagine my surprise to see this tag splash as I was on my way with Son & family to the De Young for an event Friday night 5/14.....the interview with dude just popped up from Juxtapoz on Thursday!
And I had to see all the Plasma stuff and Mike Giant collab stuff in the Tenderloin/Market area...
I just wanted to jump out the car right there and snap photo after photo of all the illness!!!!
But sometime it's gotta be about the fam.'
No hope for Saturday photo shooting either with Peter Pan on tap....
hmmmmm.
It's ok. I'll get graf shots before the weekend is over...and play more guitar.
Some live performance is coming up in the next few weeks- an acoustic version of an Arboreal remix.
Hip hop is alive and well.

So bust the Cope & Fairey collab flick: the Bronx from the Juxtapoz May 2010 online interview Pt.2

It could be set to be like a MAD summer yo.

Breaking Yourself

This month's gift mix we're throwing down a frank niao birthday bash featuring the Dramatics, Stylistics, Angela Bofill, O'Jays, Teddy P, Isaac Hayes, Isley Brothers, oh..it WILL be going down in SF in the next few weeks.
Stay tuned and get ready to BREAK yourself!

- bwlp

Ears to the Streets

So our latest video features some art work from the notorious 'Stick Alley' in San Francisco's Mission district. The SF Chronicle ran a piece on muralist, Dan Rauch's project to put up honorable graf pieces to thwart taggers from defacing often vandalized walls about the town. He teamed up with our local fave Mark Bode (pronounced boh-dee)and urban icon Mike Giant to force field the Episcopal Church of St. John.
Peep the flicks. We also feature some of this alley from last week's photo shoot for our 'arsenal' video now posted up at our podcast site.

There's a link to the article to the right under: Rauch, Bode, and Giant

Yeah, I'm Taking My Son To See The Realness!!!!

Barca vs. Chivas

8:00 PM.

Candlestick Park.

SF

And maybe some of this...

East Coast West Coast Graf Tribute

Stan is the man key speakin' on a tribute piece last month for NY writer IZ.
Damn, I love the Bay.

-b.p.p.

p.s. and all I was doing was putting together a syllabus for my teen summer reading group on a history of bay area graffiti..and i came across this. it certainly was cool catching some shots of the legends in this one. true that graf is still moving.

p.s.s. big ups to crayone for posting this to spread the knowledge. DO it too and check out his site in the Got To Be There Section for the upcoming Zulu BBQ in the Park in SF this August!

More For Your Feet and Your Mind on Haight

Walking Through North Beach...

It's the first day of Summer.
The Bay Area got a G O R G E O U S one.
It sorta started with the lovely weather type of thing a couple of days ago actually... a fine time to pass these burners by on a leisurely stroll through North Beach in SF....hit up MoMA, E' Tutto Qua (for some downright all-the-way-live Italian food) with some homies from Chicago. SF represented well this day.

So Happy Father's Day all y'all.
For myself, I took my son out to a secret locale along the Cali coast...we maybe saw 4 people at this beach that is a MISSION to get to: tide pools, litter-free sand, surprises (startled a doe) and a windy little ride through Nicasio and Mount Tamalpias, saw a group of fisherfolk snag a 3 foot shark out of Tomales Bay....
Ahhhhh...heaven.
Yup. Happy Fathers Day.
Now...about that vocal that needs hittin' up...
I'm audi.

-b.p.p.

P.S. and a Happy (belated) Juneteenth folks!

And now...

so glad summertime is just around the bend....
latest jams, Saint Germain and Next Uplands at
www.myspace.com/hiphopmakenice

look forward to what's cookin' in the Canadian edition.
it's gonna be on b l a s t.
we just been a lil' busy.

'bout to wreck a whole lotta shop.

"..what he go, natural notions
what she got exists.."

here's a few flicks from around our way....

cue it up for a wee dance.

Refresh.

SF is getting it's gallery on with a few new ones opening up around the SOMA area.
Graf is still rockin' from ICP (ice cold posse..and skew don't stop muh'f%4uh!)

Fo' Some Aight' Do,

Tonight, Friday, May 1nd in the bay
Dig Richie Cunning,
representing Frisco something quite serious.
Nice flow. Proper swag. He's on.
His best tracks aren't the most popular ones...
but he's coming correct, y'all.
Peep and don't sleep!
Catch him live tonight, live Friday, free-yo, at D-Structure during the Trevor Traynor photo exhibit at 520 Haight Street in Sucka' Free.

Also, it's sick like swine flu up in the bay with
Hip Hop in the Park at Peoples Park here in Berkeley, starting at noon on Saturday, May second...
line-up includes Blue & Exile, J-Boogie and more...

What's more?

Pete Rock is coming to the bay too, on Saturday, May 2nd (tomorrow as of this post)
as one of some other super-duper troopers at the Mezzanine for the Hard Truth Solders Tour, 2009 beginning at 9 pm.

dang, like WHO let all this hip hop out this week? did anybody catch the Trackademics show at Slims last night?!

like I tell, ya, it's no good being a teacher during the week!!

Buuu'tanyway, we got lots up this weekend. Cinco De Mayo at noon at Delores park too on Saturday...


AND its' Free COMIC day across the country, so stop in any local comic book shop for a free copy of a comic of their choosing...

dang diggy dang de dang de dang diggy diggy...

ciao for niao.

Not To Be Missed

We really enjoy what Husdon Mohawke and Mike Slott do; so might you.

You can't act like you ain't know!

-b.p.d.