♥Friday: Novelas, Love and Other Adventures in San José 7PM

Tonight!! in San José, local artist and homefries Rio Yañez in collaboration with the beautiful Mayra Ramirez collabed together to create super awesomesauce.

“Novelas, Love and Other Adventures” | Artist talke+opening tonight at the MACLA

510 S. First Street — San Jose, CA

Exhibition Dates: January 26 – March 26, 2011

TONIGHT: Opening Reception & Artist Talk Featuring Jaime Hernandez, Rio Yanez and Myra Ramirez
February 4, at 7pm

Here is a beatiful photo of mis beautifuls, late last year in the Lower Haight. HAAAAAY.
Speaking of which, Mayra’s birthday is this weekend. Qué suave — ♥happy birthday guapa!!!

Mayra + Rio

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I’m bummed out I won’t be able to make it down to SanJo on Friday night but if you are in the vicinity for the evening this is a *MUST* event.
Check it out!!

♥Today Friday: San José bike party

Maybe the beard and the machine will even make an appearance…  

Details +maps are now poste: here

♥Blonde redhead

Friday 9PM at The Warfield.
tix 25-28$
 
♥Saturday – I live here:SF discussion panel

I will be participating in Julie’s discussion panel this Saturday. If you are free please stop by!

SOMArts  | 934 Brannan Street

-from ilivehereSF

We have a panel discussion, Uncommon Cultures, with a diverse and wonderful selection of participants of the project. Film archivist Rick Prelinger will be there to talk about his Lost Landscapes of San Francisco film currently playing in the video gallery. So please come to the gallery to meet and have a Q&A with some of San Francisco’s fascinating characters!Date: Saturday, November 20, 2010 from 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM (PT)

♥Sunday – I live here:SF discussion panel
November 21, 2010 from 4-9pm 
Location: Brava Theatre Center, 2781 24th Street, San Francisco 

via galeriadelaraza.org»

The 40th Anniversary Season will finish with a momentous evening composed of legendary performance, observance of cultural icons, as well as VIP celebration all of which are hosted at the Brava Theatre Center. The evening will begin with a silent auction and an awards ceremony honoring Sandra Cisneros, Tomás Ybarra-Frausto, and René Yañez for their worldwide contributions to the Latino community. 

Diana and I

♥San José Bike Party | August editionsjbikeparty.orgAre you ready for my long SJ party post?! You better be.
So we got our bikes and ourselves to the San José bike party last month. The weather was fantastic and it was just soooo much fun.

sunset + myriads of bikes

Mi red limbs match that crazy sombrero little señor up there

Youth
The bike party is super fun and there are a tremedous amount of young teenagers, something you don’t typically see in abundance around San Francisco bicycle events at all. You know you in San José bike party when teenage boys are yelling at you left and right BIKE PAR-TAYYY

say heyaaaaaaaa

strike a pose

Teenage dream, tonite

bmxers

Boys

The eye candy in the bike party is good exercise for the brains. Everyone is so damn friendly and chatty. Well not only boys, but you see all kinds of beautiful people, for everybody. Wheeeeeeeee

peace out
this nice guy had just arrived from a trip to Europe, he told me he had taken his bike – sound system included.


Wattaaa flirt he was!!

cast captain!
He was riding with a cast, how cool is that?!

Damn. Hotness.
After finding these fine duo of guys and asking them to take their picture with their dope shirts and spotless bikes, they told me they wanted a photo with me – and of course I had to oblige 😉

Friends

Amongst hundreds+hundreds of people and us two roaming around with dead cell phones (was Friday night afterall) we still manage to run into our friends, and their friends. Good times!

Chespirito aka Miguel is in the house

Miguel’s brother y cousin

Nyle y Alex with Diana

Alejandro was our DJ for the 2nd half of the night. and I cannot lie.

He even let me pose as bike DJ. oh hai.

glow worms. there was glow sticks everywhere!

bright star! – Diana couldn’t stop smiling+laughing the whole ride =) so awesome!
hey baby – que pasó?!
and los super handsome guys that master the old-school + rad beats behind Powered by Beans! I hearts them

We ended the 30+mile ride with giant smiles in our faces. Later the next day we learned they were some accidents. I think the SJ Bike Party and its force of “birds”(volunteers) that make this such a safe+fun event, do an excellent job and it is inevitable that there are always a few crazy and/or irresponsible accidents.

The few times that I have decided to do it, has been nothing but tremendous fun and a great way to feel that the color of ethnicity surround you. In San Francisco I have not spoken Spanish as much as I have in San José, during ANY of the critical masses in the last decade. And if you want to be exposed to full-time Spanglish, this is the place to learn while riding. Lesssgo, vámonos!!

That night the infamous MOGO bbq save the night. I mean Korean+tacos, just super awesome. I had some kind of late-night hungry crankyness quesadilla life saver and so did Diana. Some of the guys had hot dogs from the kart.

Also I want to say many thanks to the blog readers that took a minute to say hello. I am absolutely flattered and impressed to have met so many of you in San José, so very cool!!!

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And back to the starting point.
It was close to 2AM at this point +we were ready to eat some more, and go to sleep.
wow 30+miles and Diana’s first long ride in ages. I’m so proud of her, she totally rocked!!

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bike parTAY!!!!

San Jose Bike Party Presents: Ride like a Pirate, Friday, September 17, 2010 by Cold Iron

Hola all. So the SJBike party has sent an email with this note:

For the last few months Bike Party has attracted many riders who do not respect the intentions and rules of our ride, giving us all a bad reputation. For this reason, San Jose Bike Party will not be publicly posting the route for this month’s ride. Instead, the route is being distrubuted through “word of mouth” between BIRDs, friends of BIRDs, and other riders who make Bike Party fun and safe.

So I’m not sure how to pass on the map, maybe all the pirates are on tweeter +they will let you know? parlayyyy
I suspect there will be. I have the map, so comment or let me know via the facebook page and I can send it to you.
They will start in Cupertino.
So there. Go.

More info here: SJBikeParty

I won’t make this month, as I will be here in SF. But the frenchie and I are there in pirate spirit. aye aye.

I met Tina doing tricks on her fixie bike, also during the San José bike party while we were famished and heading towards the Korean Taco truck for some overdue midnight snacks.
She gets her own spotlight because women riders rock, alrite. So gorgeous! =)

♥The Dynamic Duos are back once again! I’ll be posting a small collection I have gathered of fantastic pairs, couples or friends spotted while riding San Francisco’s bike lanes. Enjoy!

And tandems are abundant this week. I caught up with this awesome tandem duo during the San José Bike Party. They are also from the City – so adorable!!

Bikes and The City is collaborating once again with BikeNOPA to bring you a new series: Dads on Wheels. Every Tuesday, we will be featuring dads from all over the city, and the ways they get around town with their kids. Please check both our blogs for the current profiles.

This week my collab post for Dads on Wheels will be a little 2-photos essay from my Dads on Wheels sightings from the San José Bike Party, this past Friday, August 20th. Enjoy!

You can bike, but you can’t hide!

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Ride on, dads!!

Don’t forget to check out BIKE NOPA for more Dads on Wheels profiles.
**If you or someone you know, would like to participate email me at bikesandthecity +at+ gmail**