In the late ’90s, before dot-com rich kids blew out the underside of the city’s culture, San Francisco used to be chock full of fashionistas who danced well and could hold their liquor.
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Dilettante 21: Spice Girls concert tour ’98
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Dilettante 19: Backstage at the Zoo
Herein lies an account of the first and only time we visited the San Francisco Zoo. True to form, we only went because they gave us backstage passes for a special media tour.
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Dilettante 18: Riding a Mechanical Bull
View PostDilettante 13-17: Normal, healthy spectacles of yore
These vacation-time “Dilettante” columns from twenty years ago this month might as well be from light years away. Read More
Dilettante 12: Beach Blanket Babylon
Spectacle. It can be a need. Sometimes, the cheesier the better. Just bring on the ridiculosity.
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Dilettante 11: Chicken John’s Whore Church starring Dr. Ducky DooLittle
View PostDilettante 10: Björk at the Warfield ’98
Some concert halls feel like chapels. Hallowed walls vibrate a warm room tone; the masterful lights transport the listener to another realm where music has color and pulse.
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Dilettante 9: The Return of American Rollerderby
View PostDilettante 8: Las Vegas pt4
Are you a goth Charlotte, punk Miranda, or queer Samantha? Definitely a bizarro Carrie here. Actual Carrie wasn’t weird enough to develop a small obsession with getting fake-married to a rockabilly dude in the Elvis chapel in Vegas twenty years ago this week, but I was.
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