Bug Under Glass at Artist Village at the San Francisco Cherry Blossom Fair. Many new insect displays will be featured.

April 10th & 11th 2010

NEW PEOPLE and BAZAAR BIZARRE SAN FRANCISCO continue our collaborative series to create another all-floor vertical art village to celebrate the Japantown Cherry Blossom Festival! This curated shopping event will be part of a nationally renowned festival (Northern California Cherry Blossom) and gallery opening at NEW PEOPLE.

WHEN AND WHERE
April 10 & 11 – Saturday and Sunday
April 17 & 18 – Saturday and Sunday
11:00am – 6:00pm each day

About NEW PEOPLE
NEW PEOPLE is a 20,000 square foot, striking, contemporary building located at 1746 Post Street in the heart of San Francisco’s Japantown (one of only three remaining in the country). The project represents a $15 million investment by Shogakukan, one of the largest publishers of Japan. NEW PEOPLE will become a destination in itself and a source of stimulation for both San Francisco locals and tourists, bringing a new cultural energy to an area filled with history. With three stories above and a basement below, NEW PEOPLE will share Japanese cinema, retail and art, all under one roof

Imagine being able to lift a 6-double decker buses! Well, if you were a certain type of beetle - you could, in theory. The world record no longer goes to the Rhino Beetle, which is still one of the strongest, but to a type of scarab beetle. Learn more here. STRONG INSECT

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Bug Under Glass will be at the SF Botanical Garden Society Book and Plant sale March 26-28th. We will have a small collection of new insect displays and butterfly displays at this fun spring event.

Info:
http://www.sfbotanicalgardensociety.org/sfbgs_course_template.cfm?s=5032

Bibliophiles and plant lovers, get ready! Friends of the San Francisco Public Library and the San Francisco Botanical Garden Society are pleased to announce the Plant and Book Sale, March 26-28, 2010.

Part book sale, part plant sale, the three day event begins on Friday, March 26th from 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., continues Saturday, March 27th from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. and ends on Sunday, March 28th from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. The sale is free and open to the public.

Held at County Fair Building in Golden Gate Park, the Plant and Book Sale boasts new and used books from both Friends of the SFPL and the Helen Crocker Russell Library of Horticulture at the Botanical Garden and plants for Bay Area gardens suitable for any garden and gardening level.

The Plant and Book Sale features books in all categories, with emphasis on science, gardening, nature and Californiana. The sale also features DVDs, CDs, books on tape, cassette tapes, vinyl, VHS and other forms of media.

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Besides exhibiting amazing colors, unique patterns and behaviors, insects are also pretty amazing artists. Many have already witnessed the beauty of a spider web or the geometry of a honeybee honeycomb, but nature still offers many hidden crafts waiting to be discovered. Fellow ant reseracher Walter Tschinkel figured out a way to expose the amazing artistic skills of the ant. On a personal note, I was very fortunate to have hung out with Walter on a 10-day ant class in Arizona and he is an incredible and very funny person. One of these ant nests is on display at the California Academy of Sciences.

Here is a video from CBS news on Walter and his process.


Watch CBS News Videos Online

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Grass often gets mowed, chewed by insects and most of the time overlooked. However, its importance is very significant in the evolution of animals, especially insects. This piece was in today's NY Times and is a very well written piece about the forgotten plant that insects love to eat.

Evolution By the Grassroots - NY Times

"Imagine the Earth without grasses.

There would be no lawns or meadows. No prairies. No savannahs or steppes. No wheat fields or rice paddies. No sugar cane.

No sheep, elephants or horses.

No people.

We live in the age of grass. Indeed, from our point of view, the evolution of grasses was one of the most momentous events in the history of the Earth. Which is why I’m nominating them for Life-form of the Month: March. READ MORE

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Join us for our ever-popular independent design fair - featuring over 40 Bay Area designers and artists selling the latest chic and unique clothing, jewelry, limited edition screen-printed posters, and other fun stuff all at affordable prices. There will be tasty snacks for sale as well as a full bar. And of course it wouldn't be Noise Pop without some excellent music.

http://www.noisepop.com/2010/pop_n_shop.php

SATURDAY FEBRUARY 27
Admission is FREE
Noon-5pm
The Verdi Club
2424 Mariposa St.
San Francisco, CA

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