SF Weekly published a nice profile of "SF's most iconic music venues" -- thus establishing that DNA Lounge is not "iconic", so that's good to know. They wrote articles on Bottom of the Hill, Fillmore, Regency, Warfield, and Great American Music Hall.Snark aside, I find these historical details really interesting. That's why, years ago, I wrote up the ancient history of DNA Lounge and environs.
Do The Bay did a nice piece on Hotline, our four room indie party happening next Friday the 31st. Blondie K and subOctave have been putting a huge amount of effort into into this, so I expect it to be great! Also apparently they bought, like, a zillion telephones.
I noticed recently that the Javascript I had on the photo galleries to make swipe gestures work was failing in weird ways, so I gave up, threw away all of my code, and switched to using a package called PhotoSwipe instead. It seems to be working pretty well: let me know if you see it malfunction.
Integrating it was a bit tricky because I wanted everything to still work without Javascript, because I'm old school like that, and because I didn't want my existing URL structure to change (that's what the "U" stands for, you know). URLs matter. They tell you whether the person building the web site had a plan and a modicum of taste, or whether they just threw feces at the wall to see what stuck. In my humble but correct opinion,
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