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By Gene Mahoney

The Society Page
By Gene Mahoney

Well, this is it. Back to the San Francisco Herald brand name. No more Cal-List.com (though apparently since no one realized there was a Cal-List.com, I guess it’s not a big deal.) The Herald will be online exclusively, updated each month. Since there won’t be any more print advertising revenue, and online advertising turned out to be a bust thanks to Google’s excellent job of categorizing and indexing information, the digital Herald will be supported by the marketing of clients’ products and services. Targeted marketing tends to be more effective and less expensive than newspaper advertising, so everything worked out better if you think about it. If you’d like to know more about promoting what you’ve got, contact me at sfherald@gmail.com.

So what’s happening? KTRB, the talk radio station that moved from Modesto to San Francisco two years ago turned out to be a ratings disaster and changed to an all-sports format recently. I actually enjoyed listening to Howard Stern’s nemesis, Mancow, on KTRB as I never heard him in his Bay Area heyday back in 1993. That was when newly-elected President Bill Clinton caused a mild uproar when he held up traffic at LAX to get a haircut on board Air Force One. So Mancow had a bunch of vans tie up traffic at rush hour while his sidekick “Chewy” Gomez got a haircut on the Bay Bridge.

The reason I never heard that was because I didn’t listen to talk radio back in the early nineties. It was Live 105 all day - and at night, KKSF to chill out and go to sleep. Which really irks me that on the same day KTRB switched formats, so did KKSF. No more “Smooooth Jaaazzzz”. Now it’s “THE BAND”, which plays Jimmy Buffet and REO Speedwagon all day. How am I supposed to relax at night? (Don’t answer that.) Let’s put this Band on the run.

I’ve been listening to KCEA, which is the radio station at Menlo-Atherton High School near where I live in Silicon Valley. They play swing music from the twenties, thirties, and forties… which is nice, but not what I want nocturnally. According to its Wikipedia page, the station used to play the sound of the ocean (or sea, if you will) all night. I wish they’d start that again. Maybe I should break down and buy a CD of relaxing sounds. I don’t know, man, it’s the principle.

Since this thing is updated monthly, it won’t be too long. So let’s give some quick plugs:

There’s a new clothing store at 1623 Polk: teddahughes.com

There’s a new used book store at 345 South B Street in San Mateo called B Street Books.

I had a swell time recently at the New York Art Exchange, 818 Emerson in Palo Alto. Check out MyArtSpace.com

Kim Nalley just performed Nina Simone. But check out her website for upcoming dates for her other material.: kimnalley.com

Some events coming up at zocalopublicsquare.org

Sarah Fink is always mailing me about live shows coming to The Independent. Check out independentsf.com

Flamenco Rumba/Salsa band Kaweh is at Kaweh.com

Mr. Lopez and his gallery can be found at ArtZone461.com (I missed Becky Robbins’s show there. She’s Tony Robbins’ ex-wife. I really got into those motivational tapes years ago.)

There’s a nice young woman named Simbal at Primo Patio Café on Townsend at Third near Pac Bell Park (or SBC Park or whatever it’s called this week) who’s selling black and orange earrings for all you Giants fans out there.

There’s a guy named David who wears a black Ninja mask and hangs out in the middle of the 1200 block of Folsom. He’ll wash, dry, gloss, and vacuum your car for just $20.

On a similar note, South San Francisco has a cute car wash on Hillside at Linden. It’s got nice music piped in (woops, I’m showing my age, it’s probably via Internet radio). I remember pulling into it the other day. The sun was shining, “Leaving on a Jet Plane” by Peter Paul and Mary (and I think, written by John Denver) was playing, and I got to watch the cops bust some guy who looked like a gang member while his girlfriend (?) looked on.

Okay. Gotta go. Start checking this thing each month. Take care.