a dapper (and sometimes disgruntled) take on popular culture
Posted in Actors, Celebrities, Entertainment, Film, Movies, Pop Culture on Apr 28th, 2010
The 53rd Annual San Francisco International Film Festival started on April 22 and I am ready to jump on board! (I am a slow starter).
Nonetheless, I will be covering a handful of the films and, perhaps, conducting a couple of interviews, so stay tuned throughout the next week for my take on SFIFF 2010!
Posted in Fashion on Apr 27th, 2010
Make sure your Thursday is clear, because the NYC store known as OAK is gonna push their hipster goods via their private label, A.OK at a pop up shop.
I’ve been there a couple of times on my trips to New York, but never bought anything — mainly because the timing wasn’t right. Payday never landed [...]
Posted in Entertainment, Fashion, Movies, Pop Culture on Mar 29th, 2010
It’s been a long while since I’ve been to a fashion event in San Francisco. After work, I opt to rush home to watch American Idol instead of rubbing elbows and socializing with the city’s swank sector. But when I got invited to a special J. Crew event where head menswear designer Frank Muytjens was [...]
Posted in Fashion on Dec 19th, 2009
Apparently, Tommy John has found the perfect undershirt for us guys. It contours to your body and stays put the whole entire day. No bunching, untucking, or riding up. It is possibly the best undershirt ever made.
Don’t believe me? Then ask founder Tom Patterson at the Neiman Marcus in Union Square at 10 a.m. to [...]
Posted in Actors, Celebrities, Entertainment, Fashion, Pop Culture, Uncategorized on Dec 10th, 2009
When moving to a metropolitan city, huge commercial stores are scarce. You start to realize that when you used to live in the suburbs, you took things for granted – like Target, which just happens to be the most magical store on the face of the Earth.
That said, it is a Christmas miracle that they [...]
The folks at Chillin’ Productions are at it again; bringing an army of fashion designers, DJs and artists under the roof of Mezzanine for their holiday party this Saturday:
Posted in Events, Fashion, San Francisco on Dec 2nd, 2009
No, it’s not that kind of ho-down (it’s not that kind of ho-down either).
On Thursday December 3rd, San Francisco will play host to the Handmade Ho Down, a DIY fest with an Etsy edge (who just so happens to be a sponsor). The event will shopping event will have plenty of wares like clothing, jewelry [...]
Posted in Actors, Celebrities, Entertainment, Events, Film, Movies, Pop Culture, Uncategorized, Video on Nov 9th, 2009
Well, he kind of showed us his six-pack.
Tonight, stars of New Moon, Ashley Greene and Kellan Lutz were welcomed by throes of “Twi-hard” fans at Stonestown Galleria in San Francisco.
First they stopped by Nordstrom and then they went on to the Goth headquarters of all that is Twilight, Hot Topic and they ended the [...]
Posted in Actors, Celebrities, Entertainment, Film, Movies, Pop Culture on Nov 6th, 2009
When I say Alice and Emmett, I am referring to actors Ashley Greene and Kellan Lutz. The two stars of New Moon will be doing a free (yes, FREE) Q & A at the Stonestown Galleria 7:30 p.m., Monday November 9.
Lutz (who portrays the super-strong vampire Emmett) and Greene (who plays the pixie clairvoyant vampire [...]
Posted in Events, Fashion, San Francisco, Style on Nov 3rd, 2009
This ain’t no mom and pop, craft camp accessories pop-up store.
DNA (a.k.a. designers+artists) will be poppin’ up in San Francisco with their pop-up shop on Friday, November 6 – and it’s gonna be poppin’.
The event started in New York and the concept is “to curate a multipurpose exhibition of emerging, avant-garde and contemporary fashion/accessories designers [...]