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One Can't Rehearse Revolutions (Part 2): An Interview with Tongo Eisen-Martin

September 10, 2019 Adobe Books

A conversation with the San Francisco poet Tongo Eisen-Martin.

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Tags Events, Interview, Music, September 2019, Jamie Aylward

One Can't Rehearse Revolutions: An Interview with Marshall Trammell

July 7, 2019 Adobe Books

A conversation with the San Francisco musician Marshall Trammell.

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Tags Events, Interview, July 2019, Music, Jamie Aylward

Another Painted Lady

May 21, 2019 Adobe Books

I’d wager that most of us have engaged, at one time or another, in the pastime of seeking out the unassuming but legendary historic home that links a city or subculture’s past to the present.

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Tags music, San Francisco, May 2019, Jamie Aylward

Gems from the National Film Board of Canada

March 11, 2019 Adobe Books

Whenever the offerings on our glorious American streaming services go stale, the National Film Board of Canada remains as a goldmine of documentaries, feature films, and experimental films from our neighbors to the north.

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Tags film, March 2019, Jamie Aylward

"Visit us in San Francisco": Yoshi Yubai Interviewed by V. Vale

February 23, 2019 Adobe Books

The photographer Yoshi Yubai’s show SAN FRANCISCO is up in the Adobe gallery space until February 27th.

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Tags the adobe family, Gallery, Interview, February 2019

John Coltrane's Last Trips to San Francisco

January 22, 2019 Adobe Books
John Coltrane at Stanford, January 1966. Photo: Andy Nozaka.

John Coltrane at Stanford, January 1966. Photo: Andy Nozaka.

During John Coltrane’s last years, the city was, coincidentally or not, a crucible for his controversial, awesome turn to free improvisation.

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Tags Music, January 2019, San Francisco, Jamie Aylward

The Physicality of Shadows: A Conversation

January 5, 2019 Adobe Books

Artists Sienna Freeman and Justin Robinson in conversation.

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Tags Events, January 2019, Gallery, Interview

Adobe's Favorite Books of 2018

December 18, 2018 Adobe Books
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An unstructured list (who needs rankings anyway) of our favorite books, new and old, that we read in 2018.

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Tags december 2018, the adobe family, Books

"What, more?" A Playlist and Reflection for the Shorter Days

November 29, 2018 Adobe Books

A collection of songs befitting the shorter days and colder nights.

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Tags November 2018, music, joseph a., winter

My Life, My Stories at Adobe Books

November 17, 2018 Adobe Books

Last week, Adobe Books hosted My Life, My Stories for a moving event that organizer Brittany Bare recaps in this post. Their mission of fostering a more connected and empathetic San Francisco through oral history and storytelling is one we absolutely dig.

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Tags November 2018, Events

Recommended Reading on The Bolinas Scene

November 11, 2018 Adobe Books
Local publication The Bolinas Hit, No. 2, 1969

Local publication The Bolinas Hit, No. 2, 1969

''There are so many poets it's hard to see the trees'' - Tom Clark in a letter to Clark Coolidge, 1970

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Tags Books, November 2018, Recommended Reading, Jamie Aylward

The Ghostwriter in the Machine

October 22, 2018 Adobe Books
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Is a new approach to writing nearly available to us, powered by the technology that underlies those words we’ve all heard, like “machine learning” and “big data”? Will it matter?

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Tags October 2018, Books, Jamie Aylward

The Moby-Dick Marathon Returns

October 3, 2018 Adobe Books

Looming on the horizon is the return of the San Francisco Moby-Dick Marathon at the Maritime Museum in Fort Mason, during which (you guessed it), all 135 chapters of Herman Melville’s opus will be read out loud.

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Tags jamie a., October 2018, Books, Events

Introducing the Adobe Blog

September 22, 2018 Adobe Books
Claire Astrow, 2016. Fone, 5 color screen print. 11’x17’’

Claire Astrow, 2016.
Fone, 5 color screen print. 11’x17’’

Hello out there and welcome to the new Adobe Blog! With this blog, we hope to maintain a decentralized, online platform that is in many ways a virtual analog of the Adobe spirit.

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Tags September 2018, jamie a.

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