July 2025

From a recent First Friday gathering at Macchiarini Creative Design on Grant Avenue in San Francisco’s legendary North Beach neighborhood, Dan Macchiarini introducing Air Plant Nina whose living jewelry pieces are on display and for sale at the gallery until September.

For more information or to shop, visit:
https://airplantnina.com

Macchiarini Creative Design Jewelry and Sculpture offers classes for metal work sharing over sixty years of metal work experience brought into intimate class settings for beginners and experienced jewelry makers alike.

For more information:
http://www.metalworkssf.com
https://www.macreativedesign.com

#sanfrancisco #northbeach #firstfriday #macchiarinicreativedesign #danmacchiarini #airplantnina #showcase #livingart #AlcatrazRadio

Recently, Facebook announced it would be deleting ‘Live’ videos from its platform and invited downloading them before deletion.

This is one of those video – originally streamed ‘live’ in portrait mode.
* one of our first live streams and we had no idea what we were doing

With a fixed aspect ratio and orientation – the ‘The Rubadub & Friends’ LIVE – from once upon a time and a thing of beauty.

Located at 470 Green Street in San Francisco, Maykadeh restaurant has been a staple in the Persian community since it opened in 1983 – providing delicious appetizers, kebabs, steaks and seafood.

https://maykadehrestaurant.com/

SanFrancisco #Maykadeh #TheRubadub #Friends #JamSession #DannyBrown #Sax #MattSavage #trumpet #MannyBerry #piano #AlcatrazRadio

First Friday ‘Jessica Loos Poetry Series’ – June 2025 edition – hosted by ‘Macchiarini Creative Design Jewelry and Sculpture’ on Grant Avenue in San Francisco’s North Beach neighborhood – with introduction by Dan Macchiarini and Jessica Loos – alongside poets Jerry Ferraz, Sarah Kruze, Phil Lumsden, and music with Lucy In The Sky, Mario Grillo and Mark Holzinger.

First Friday has been a tradition in North Beach since 2007.
Macchiarini Creative Design Jewelry and Sculpture offers classes for metal work sharing over sixty years of metal work experience brought into intimate class settings for beginners and experienced jewelry makers alike.
For more information:
http://www.metalworkssf.com
https://www.macreativedesign.com

#SanFrancisco #NorthBeach #FirstFriday #Poetry #Reading #MacchiariniCreativeDesign #DanMacchiarini #JessicaLoos #JerryFerraz #SarahKruse #PhilLumsden #LucyInTheSky #MarioGrillo #MarkHolzinger #AlcatrazRadio

Recently heard at San Francisco’s Cannery on Fisherman’s Wharf, ‘Blues Per Square Inch’ delivering this stellar rendition of Andy González’s ‘Bomba Para Vieques’ – a traditional Puerto Rican art form, showing of support for the island of Vieques, Puerto Rico, alongside an unruly camera lense.

The ‘Blues Per Square Inch’ performs every Monday at the Cannery from 12 to 3 pm.

https://bluespersquareinch.com

#sanfrancisco #thecannery #BluesPerSquareInch #BombaParaVieques #AndyGonzález #puertorico #alcatrazradio