Posts Tagged “San Francisco”

  • Reminiscing with the Burton Sisters

    December 9th, 2011 | Blog, Events, Tikva Records | Marc Weidenbaum | No Comments

    When the Idelsohn Society opened Tikva Records on December 1, the store turned a tiny slice of San Francisco’s Outer Mission into a 1950s-style vinyl record shop. When the Burton Sisters reunited last night on stage at Tikva, the neighborhood was transformed briefly into the Catskills

    Roger Bennett, one of Idelsohn’s founders, summed up the …

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  • Fool’s Gold Rocked the House

    December 8th, 2011 | Blog, Events, Tikva Records | Marc Weidenbaum | No Comments

    Fool’s Gold rocked the house twice last night. The five-piece, LA-based, African-flavored, Hebrew-singing band packed tight into the rear of the main room at Tikva Records, and they ran through two sets of songs, drawn mostly from their recent album, Leave No Trace.

    They may have left no trace, but they didn’t leave empty-handed. …

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  • Fool’s Gold’s Luke Top: Making a Name for Himself, Literally

    December 7th, 2011 | Blog, Events, Tikva Records | Marc Weidenbaum | No Comments

    Luke Top has phoned from his home in the Los Feliz neighborhood in Los Angeles. His band, the African-infused rock group Fool’s Gold, just back home from a six-week tour, is preparing to head to San Francisco for a pair of Wednesday (December 7) CD-release shows at Tikva Records.

    “Home,” it turns out, is a …

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  • Latest News from the World’s First Jewish Pop-up Record Store

    December 6th, 2011 | Blog, Events, Tikva Records | Marc Weidenbaum | No Comments

    Tikva Records is sending out a weekly email newsletter about the goings on at the December-only location in San Francisco’s Mission District. Click through below to read in full, and enter your email address in the section to the lower right, in order to receive future Tikva Records and Idelsohn Society emails.

    Other news: Tomorrow …

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  • Ralph Bakshi: From Brownsville to Hollywood

    December 5th, 2011 | Blog, Events, Tikva Records | Marc Weidenbaum | 2 Comments

    Nobody lives in North Beach anymore. We learned that last night. We heard a Haight-Ashbury hippie tell it authoritatively to a songwriting New Yorker who’d just driven across the country, spinning lyrics in Kansas cornfields and penciling them on scraps of newspaper during late-night bus rides.

    We learned a lot last night, as legendary animator …

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