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“This tour has been ten times the craziness — 100 times the craziness — that it was the first time. So, when we came back to Salt Lake, it was just this madhouse of a time,” Sanchez recalled specifically of his show on Oct. 26.

Cunningham’s full-bodied vocals evinced an uncanny ability to marry with the band’s verve-imbued groove, at times in unexpected ways.

In an interview with The Daily Californian, Moreno described his filmmaking process as a process of discovery in search of artistic pleasure.

“The Garden: Commune or Cult” effectively cuts between one-on-one interviews, dialogue between members and footage of communal activities — such as controlled burning of the fields, moving the kitchen or even raising a tipi.

Locating the faire outside of the tech-centric Peninsula also brought community members to a part of the Bay Area they may not have visited. “So many people in Vallejo said ‘Thank you for doing it here. It means something and it's a positive thing to happen here in Vallejo.’" Dougherty said. "I think that having the Maker Faire here is a good example of how the community isn't just about San Mateo and San Francisco and Silicon Valley.”

An Ethel Cain concert is a place of worship, and on the night of Oct. 24, the alternative singer-songwriter took San Francisco to church. In other words, mother mothered.

By the end of the performance, they proved that strings don’t just belong at the symphony — they’re made for rock and roll.

Next thing I knew I was in a feathered tutu and a lace blouse being told that “black is your COLOR, mademoiselle” and I felt absolutely fierce.

In his sweeping solos, Wyatt Underhill, an acting associate concertmaster, managed to turn his violin into an oboe, the oboe into a gong, then back into a violin solely through the specificity of his fingers.