Weekend Watcher: Hornucopia - a Celebration of all Things Horny . . . and the Importance of Culture

It is difficult to escape our day-to-day lives but it is important that we do. I love spending time in environments where people just know me as Tom rather than in my professional roles. The geek-life is fun but it’s not enough. Understanding the culture of our times is important to every business, to every startup--but you won’t get it unless you go out and get it. No TechCrunch, no Giga, no Twitter, know tech-nothing--just getting out into a wider culture is important. Here is one way to do that... Here is an event, the 11 day Hornucopia music festival in San Francisco, a celebration of any music with horns-- that deserves support--especially the upcoming Saturday show with the Jazz Mafia Summit at the Rickshaw Stop in Hayes Valley. Allison Lovejoy from Lovejoy Lowdown has the details . . . She interviews Sol Crawford, one of the more interesting of San Francisco’s young music promoters. He is a co-partner at Amnesia, which has earned a stellar reputa...