I’m half a day late because I’ve been devouring social media all day long. Please forgive me. Many have tried but few have succeeded in making my all important (to me anyway) timelines, news feeds and Google Reader. And since I have the day off, I’m doing my best to get up to speed with [...]

Around this time last year I attended an art show in the SoMA called, “Diwang Pinay,” hosted by the  Filipino womens’ organization, Babae. At this particular event I ended up meeting several artists and musicians from the organization hosting to first time artists performing. I was thrown into a pile of networks that inspired me [...]

Dear Dwende Diary: I hope and pray I never lose my sense of sight, my sense of hearing or my ability to move because I realized just the other day while I was watching Janelle Monáe perform that I love live music. I think I may have even been made for live music. I know [...]

Every now and then, I’m reminded that I’m going to die one day. For all my talk of being fully present and wanting to live forever, I’m firmly rooted in my mortality when I hear about people my age having brushes with death. On Saturday night, I had a couple tentative plans that I ended [...]

I was waking up Tuesday morning and reading tweets when I got word that he was gone. Not long after the confirmation came speculation surrounding the cause of his death. Then there was written anger about the circumstances which I will not detail here (there are a lot of things I am, none of which [...]

<img src=”http://sinkane.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/littledra.jpg”> <a href=”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mana”>ma·na  (män) n. 1. A supernatural force believed to dwell in a person or sacred object. 2. Power; authority. An indigenous word; concept of an impersonal force. It resides in people, animals, and inanimate objects. It has commonly been interpreted as “the stuff of which magic is formed”</a> <img src=”https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik=d29b6e129f&view=att&th=128174e226d868b9&attid=0.8&disp=inline&realattid=f_g87movxr7&zw”> According to [...]

In an age of polished records, intentional overuse and abuse of Auto-Tune, fair-weather fans, and formulaic “overnight” pop sensations, BECK HANSEN, challenges the current state of our rapidly transforming music industry with his quirky sense of experimentation. Beck’s latest music project, RECORD CLUB, recaptures the essence of music with live recordings of multiple artists in [...]

After watching this year’s NCAA Women’s National Title game between Duke & Butler, I started listening to how the announcers were playing up the talent on the court. While it was obvious to any true fan that none of the guys in this game would be in the NBA in 5 years (unless Zoubek gets [...]

There is little more life-giving than the friends that come into your life and you know for a fact they will stay with you forever. In my final year of college I was able to encounter and form a lasting bond with three of these kinds of friends. They were supportive, thoughtful and boy did [...]

“It’s called gentrification. They bring the property value down, they can buy the land at a lower price, then they move all the people out raise the property value and sell it at a profit. Ya listenin’?” (Boyz N The Hood & Sample on “What You Finna Do” by DaVinci) Enter: DaVinci, a San Francisco [...]