• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Catherine Gacad

  • About
  • Categories
    • Archives
    • Blogging
    • Burning Man
    • City Guides
    • Education & Politics
    • Favorite Books
    • Finances & Retirement
    • Parenthood
    • Relationships
    • Religion
    • San Francisco Bay Area
    • Travel
  • Subscribe
    • Feedburner
    • Bloglovin
    • Feedly
  • Search

All Posts, San Francisco Bay Area

Pop-Up Magazine: Issue 5

Long overdue review of Pop-Up Magazine’s Issue 5 which took place at the SF Symphony Hall on Wednesday November 9th. Gathered a group of friends to meet up for drinks at Jardiniere beforehand, go to the show, and continue drinking afterwards at the Boxing Room.

Pop-Up Magazine has been going strong since its first issue April 22, 2009. It’s a unique, only-in-San Francisco magazine that’s performed live on-stage. The venue has progressed from the Brava Theater to the Herbst Theater now to the Symphony, which goes to show its escalating popularity. This was my first time. I jumped on buying as many tickets as possible as soon as they went on sale. I think the event sold out within an hour.

The show is structured like a typical magazine with specific feature topics like foreign affairs, food, music, crime, travel, and so on. Extra originality points for the crossword puzzle. A woman read her energized poem about the city of Oakland while a crossword puzzle projected behind her gradually filled in with key words. Other highlights included a piece titled Mr. Mom with the writer testing what it was like to be a pregnant man and capturing people’s reactions on camera, and also the video history of a famous pop song in Pakistan. There were a lot more lowlights, but that happens in all magazines. Who really reads every article? Plus, the audience could have used a bathroom break.

Nevertheless, props to the Pop-Up Magazine editorial crew for launching a fab issue. Looking forward to #6.

Tweet
Pin
Share
0 Shares

Related

11.15.11

Tweet
Pin
Share
0 Shares

Reader Interactions

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Primary Sidebar

Welcome to my site, derived from an advice column I wrote while getting my MBA. I live in the San Francisco Bay Area. I give helpful, opinionated advice based on my own experience and from the expertise of my extensive network. For more, click here.

Categories

  • Archives
  • Blogging
  • Burning Man
  • City Guides
  • Education & Politics
  • Favorite Books
  • Finances & Retirement
  • Parenthood
  • Relationships
  • Religion
  • San Francisco Bay Area
  • Travel

Popular Posts

  • Palm Reading
  • RIP Todd Crockett
  • Why Do Guys Date Girls Who Barely Speak English?
  • Alameda County Fair
  • Thanksgiving 2019
  • Money Monday: Burning Man Swag

Back to top

© 2019 Catherine Gacad.