Hardly Strickly 2024

 

I went to the Hardly Strickly Bluegrass Festival. It is annual tradition for me. Hardly Stickly is a free Bluegrass Festival that is held in Golden Gate Park. It is the biggest music festival in San Francisco. I usually go on Friday as about 100,000 folks show up (This year it was double because of the warm weather) on the weekend upwards of 500,000 folks show up:

Molly Tuttle and Golden Highway

Sleater-Kinney

Sgt. Spenldor

Glen Hansard

And I saw Viv and Riley and got to meet them afterwards:

Besides music, it is just a fun time:

Hardly Strickly has been around since 2001 when venture capitalist Warren Hellman started the event. Hellman died in 2011 and his foundation has kept the festival alive and free since then:

Music Monday: Those 80's Power Ballads

 Music Monday: We are looking at some of best power ballads from the 80's. These were the slower songs from rock groups of the 80's:

Hope you enjoyed them and I hope that you have a wonderful week.

Welcome to the Emporium Arcade Bar

 

I had a professional development (PD) in the oddest of places- The Emporium Arcade Bar in San Francisco. It was about using different technology apps in the classroom. 

I had never been to the place but as you walk in the murals on the walls were super cool:

But what was super cool were the games they had:

And the coolest were the two old school games that I used to play all the time:

The Emporium Arcade Bar was super cool and I know that I will be going back as I still have some tokens left over.

Union Square is Bloomin

 

San Francisco's Union Square is trying to draw more people. It was once a cool shopping district, but since the after the pandemic- stores have closed and it has become a little interesting to say the least. One thing they are trying to do is brighten the area up with flowers. The city is calling it Union Square in Bloom:

And a lot of the businesses are getting involved:

It is cool to see all the colors and this was really cool, seeing a cable car in bloom:

Just Some K-Wave Fashion

 

The Asian-Art Museum in San Francisco just started a new exhibit called Hallyu! The Korean Wave. It explores how South Korea has reinvented itself as a 21st century pop culture world leader.  From movies like "Parasite, to TV series like The Squid Games to K-Pop, South Korea is has become a center of pop culture.

Here is some of the K-Wave fashion I saw starting with K-Pop:

And then some more traditional fashion:

And then you have this fashion piece that most of know

The suit that PSY wore in the Gangnam Style

It was really interesting seeing exhibit and learned a lot.