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Bazaar Bizarre hosted its second arts and crafts show and was held in San Francisco’s New People building in Japantown. Twelve vendors at the fair came out to sell some amazing things; items such as jewelry, felt animals, clothing, and other various items. The fair ran from 12-8pm with a sponsored cocktail and snack time running from 5-8pm in the art gallery on the third floor. Throughout the show a guest DJ came to spin some records which filled music throughout the entire building.

Entry to the fair was free with each guest allowed to enter a free raffle with some great door prizes. Each show hopefully will bring newly interested, as well as artsy people together in the hopes that buyers could support local craft makers. If you know others that may be interested in checking an arts & crafts fair with local vendors please check out the Bazaar Bizarre blog link at www.bazaarbizarre.org/sanfrancisco/blog for future shows.

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The San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival (SFIAAFF) Launch Party was held at 111 Minna Gallery located in Downtown San Francisco. The festival is in it’s 28th year and this year also marks the 30th anniversary of the Center for Asian American Media (CAAM).

The party kicked off officially at 8pm and lasted a little past midnight. CAAM members, fans of Asian American media, and the general public were invited out for a night of fun. The night was filled with music from guest DJs, music videos shown on the silver screen, and live performances from local bands who performed on stage. Hundreds of people showed up to be apart of this celebration and guests showed up ready to party on a Thursday night.

This year’s festival will host about 109 short films, feature length films, music videos, and other various types of media. For more information about the festival and Asian American media please check out CAAM’s website by clicking here. Please support Asian American film makers and actors by watch a film or two at this year’s festival and to be more involved throughout the year please join membership with CAAM to be kept in touch with future festival events, private movie screenings, and discounts from local vendors.

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The San Jose Sharks have been doing really well this season. Currently they are at the top in the Pacific Division and on Monday they had the most points National Hockey League with 81pts. Today, they are behind the Washington Capitals who have 82pts, resulting from their win last night. Am I proud that the Sharks are up there? Darn Right!!! It’s just a matter of how long can they do it for. I’m pretty confident that they will play hard for the rest of the season. Will this be the year that the Sharks take the Stanley Cup? Quite possibly. I think with the way the Sharks have been playing it could be the very year that they do it.

I took a trip down to San Jose a few weeks ago with a friend to watch a game at the HP Pavilion, also known as “The Tank”. The Sharks that weekend were playing the Edmonton Oilers. The game was pretty exciting for me since I haven’t been to a game in over 5 years.

The game started off pretty good with the Sharks scoring pretty early on in the game with a goal by Marleau. The Oilers picked up a goal tying the game. However, later in the first period Setoguchi snuck in a goal to give the Sharks a 2-1 lead.

Following the first period the Sharks were on fire and picked up another goal quick in the second period by Setoguchi making it a 3-1 game. Sharks then went to score one last goal later on in the period by Thorton making it 4-1, but the Oilers didn’t give up. They picked up one more goal in the third period to make the final score of the game San Jose Sharks 4 to Edmonton Oilers 2.

The MVP of the game was Setoguchi, which is a player that is starting to grow on me and for now has to be my favorite player in hockey. Something about saying his name makes watching the game more enjoyable. Setoguchi would also have to be one of my favorite players because he wears the number of one of my all time favorite players in Bay Area sports and that number has been worn by the late and great quarterback of the 80s; the good ol’ number 16 worn by Joe Montana.

In other news, since the Sharks performed well and picked up a victory of 4 points Round Table Pizza gave away free pizzas to all who attended the game. How sweet of a deal is that. Not only did the Sharks pick up a victory, but fans could pick up free personal sized pizzas, with any home victory 4pts and above.

If you haven’t been down to see a hockey game, it’s truly a great experience to see it live and in person. Televised games are just not the same when you can see players brawl in person. I hope to see more games in the future, so if you have time go check out a game and if you have extra tickets you can send them my way too, I won’t turn you down.

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