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Assorted places to go in no particular order, but by categories that may only exist in the addled Charlisean brain. Complete with vague commentary. If links are broken or inaccurate, or if you have any suggestions on other resources, please contact me.
Visual Art
Music
Dance
Theatre
Art Organizations
Folklore and Mythology
Linguistics
Languages
Humour
Cultural Studies
People


Visual Art

  • Artcyclopedia
    The definitive guide to "museum-quality" fine art. It is a good place to start if you are looking for art by a particular artist.
  • Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
    The best Asian art collection on this coast.
  • Legion of Honor and De Young Museum
    The two decent western art museums in the Bay Area. The Legion of Honor's St. Francis by El Greco and The Broken Pitcher by Bougereau are lovely. The De Young is closed until 2005.
  • The Seattle Art Museum and the Seattle Asian Art Museum
    Weak on Old Master European art, but the Asian Art holdings are decent. The Japanese collection is especially good.
  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art
    One of the larger museums of Los Angeles. They have an excellent De La Tour, Ribera, and a few Rembrandts.
  • J. Paul Getty Museum
    Their collection of Rembrandts is impressive.
  • Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
    They have a beautiful relief sculpture of the Madonna by Donetello.
  • National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
    Probably the best museum in the country, though it all depends on what you like.
  • The Metropolitan Museum of Art
    2 million works of art, 3,500 available for viewing on the Web site.
  • The National Gallery, London
    An amazing collection of Western European paintings from around 1260 to 1900.
  • Rijksmuseum
    Their collection includes paintings, sculpture, prints, and Asiatic art, but their Netherlandish paintings are most impressive.
  • Louvre
    Easier than fighting off all those flash photo taking tourists in front of the Mona Lisa.
  • Musée Rodin
    The collection includes around 6,600 sculptures.
  • Germanisches National Museum, Nürnberg
    A cultural history museum devoted to furthering knowledge of German history.
  • Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
    The best known painting in their collection is the Sistine Madonna, and most Americans are only familiar with the two cherubs at the bottom.
  • Galleria delgi Uffizi
    The first modern museum.
  • Musei Vaticani
    I would like to become the Pope as to have access to all the art at the Vatican, but understand my chances are on the slim side.
  • Shanghai Museum
    The incredible museum of Chinese art in Shanghai, especially renown for its bronzes.
  • The National Palace Museum
    7,000 years of Chinese art, including much of the Ch'ing imperial collection.

    Music

  • San Francisco Opera
    Founded in 1923, the opera company lives at the gorgeous War Memorial Opera House in the Civic Center.
  • San Francisco Early Music Society
    They put on excellent concerts in San Francisco, Berkeley, and Palo Alto.
  • A List of Opera Companies on the Web
    A list by location compiled by Tamás Máray.

    Dance

  • Martha Graham
    The Martha Graham Center seems to be offline at the moment.
  • Pina Bausch
    Tanztheater Wuppertal.
  • Ultragypsy
    A Bay-area tribal bellydance troupe.
  • Mahea Uchiyama Center for International Dance
    Polynesian, Middle Eastern/Central Asian, Indian and African dance classes.
  • World Arts West
    They organize the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival.
  • ODC/San Francisco
    A dance company, theatre, and school in San Francisco.

    Theatre

  • The Asian American Theater Company
    A professional theater company dedicated to the production of plays by Asian Pacific Islander American dramatists.
  • La Peña
    A multicultural performing arts center in Berkeley that presents local, national and international music, theater, dance, film and visual artists whose works examine contemporary social issues and are reflective of a wide variety of cultural traditions.
  • Shotgun Players
    Theatre for everyone, this non-profit puts on various performances for $15 or less per ticket.
  • Pacific Repertory Theatre
    They are putting on all of Shakespeare's histories in the next four years.
  • The American Conservatory Theater
    A.C.T. is the big theatre company in San Francisco. Most of their productions are fairly good.
  • The Berkeley Repertory Theatre
    One of the better theatre companies in the East Bay, they've put on David Henry Hwang's the Golden Child and Aeschylus' Oresteia.

  • Buscando California
    An excellent Chicano, Latino, and Asian American theater resource compiled by Kat Avila.

    Art Organizations

  • Kearny Street Workshop
    The mission of Kearny Street Workshop (KSW) is to promote, preserve and present art that enriches and empowers Asian Pacific American communities.
  • Locus 1640 Post
    To promote Asian Pacific American consciousness and community through the arts.
  • Southern Exposure
    Southern Exposure is a non-profit artists' organization located in San Francisco's Mission District at historic Project Artaud.
  • Artist Resource
    Art resources for the Bay Area.

    Folklore and Mythology

  • Enzyklopädie des Märchens
    German fairy tales.
  • Folklore and Mythology presented by D.L. Ashliman
    All manner of folk and fairy tales and their different versions.
  • Folk and Fairy Tales from Around the World
    Folk tales from all over.

    Linguistics

  • The Linguist List
    Resources for linguists and a gratuitous pig.
  • The Indo-European Database
    A fairly comprehensive overview of the Indo-European languages, though a bit weak on modern Indic languages.
  • The I Can Eat Glass Project
    It doesn't hurt me.

    Languages

  • The Chinese Languages
    A short history of the Chinese languages, part of the Sino-Tibetan family.
  • Mandarin Tools
    A Chinese character dictionary that covers both counter-revolutionary and simplified characters.
  • HEL Home Page
    The history of the world's most over-described language.
  • A brief history of the German language
    Information on the history of German from Proto-Germanic to contemporary German.
  • The Turkish Language
    The widely-spoken Ural-Altaic language.
  • Tamil
    A Dravidian language spoken in India and Sri Lanka.
  • Koryak Net
    Information on the people known as Koryaks, that refer to themselves as Nymylani or Chukchi. Also some details about their language. Brought to you by the linguistic anthropologist Alex King.

    Humour

  • Exploding Dog
    Sam and his drawings of stick people, robots, and aliens.
  • Big Bad Chinese Mama
    How about these mail-order brides?
  • Church of Euthanasia
    Save the planet, kill yourself.
  • Mary Chen
    Musings on they who do chicken right and more.
  • The Misanthropic Bitch
    Why do people accuse her of having too much time on her hands?
  • The Shanmonster
    Chickens and bellydancers.
  • Emotion Eric
    Eric makes faces. Cute.
  • Muffin Films
    12 films on muffins. Can you find the robot muffin?
  • ASPCR
    The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Robots
  • All Look Same?
    A pressing question.
  • Rabbit
    A rabbit that balances objects upon his head.

    Social Consciousness - Thoughts on Commercialism, Sexuality, Gender, and Race

  • Adbusters
    I'm probably overly fond of this magazine.
  • Mother Jones Magazine
    Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.
  • Worse Than Queer
    Poststructuralist, feminist, and queer theorizing from Mimi Nguyen.
  • Perpetual Limbo
    C. Ray, bitter cynic, with an adorably perfectly round head.
  • Seaweed Productions
    Kip Fulbeck, the film maker, writer, and activist.
  • Kein Mensch ist Illegal
    Information on migrants and refugees in Europe.
  • Minorities in China
    The demographics of China.
  • The Romani
    Gypsy culture.
  • Making Face, Making Soul
    A Chicana feminist homepage.

  • What's Wrong With It?
    Explaining Media, a media studies project by Katie Holbrook.

  • Jade Magazine
    An English-speaking Asian and Asian American women's magazine fronted by Ellen Hwang and Audrey Panichakoon Crone.

    People

  • The Bane of my Existence
    "Nuclear" has two syllables. A chemist with an identity crisis.

  • Ray
    Space bellydancers on the moon with robots. Fear not.

  • Ryan Davis
    Pherd! My viola's name is Fred too. Ryan hosts my Web site, he is nice.
  • Lisa and Potato
    Some people are normal and boring, others aren't.

  • Myriam Gurba
    The one and only Myriam, not a Myriam imposter.

  • Rachel Strasser
    Her brilliant thesis on the metaphorical implications of the golem and other things. Rachel is also more neurotic than you, in case you were wondering.

  • Lupo
    Vulgar, shocking waste. A physicist hell-bent on owning a boat. He'll cook for you if you play nice.

  • Captain Saxby
    Eric works at the museum now and I'm terribly jealous.

  • Tami Sloan Tsark
    Watercolors and line drawings.

  • Loretta
    Thomas and his exciting life.

  • Meeshee
    Skot, BK, Nicole, and Davin are the world's cutest band ever.

  • Oronzo il Furioso
    He cracks me up, that Oronzo, even though he doesn't like penguins.

  • Frankie
    Funny, odd small polyglot. Also a connoisseur of moustaches and cheese.

  • Uwe
    We miss Uwe. He's in Dresden.

  • Scott Louie
    The aftermath of a zine called Yob. We can never be together, because I don't watch TV, and he likes IKEA too much.

  • mayhemdesignz
    The art of James Mahan.

  • The Wacky Iraqi
    Ziad is really nice, despite his penchant for commie Jews, or perhaps because of, we aren't sure.

  • Unwoman
    Erica Mulkey's sound experiments.

  • Cranky Girls
    Annie Koh is only moderately cranky from what I've seen. Smart as a whip, though, that girl.

  • The Poetic Dream
    David Huang takes good photographs. I have a soft-spot for his ones of trannies.

  • Mobile Republic
    Amy Lam's design skills are quite impressive. She also writes rather lovely non-fiction.

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