Welcome to the Nostalgia section, where memory combines with cuisine, music and performance to produce edification and amusement. Kept here a collection of reviews from over a decade of Island Life certain to make you remember the good times you had whether you actually had them or not. All reviews are in convenient pdf format should you wish to keep a copy for your files.

-The Editor

2000

cuisine
Asena Restaurant
Aug 2000 		music
Lou Reed
Jun 11th 		music
No Doubt / Blackeyed Peas Jul 28th 		music
Oakland Blues Festival
Sep 2nd 		theater
History & Mystery of the Universe
Dec 16th 		music
NSSN, BGC, Dec 15th

2001

theater
The Metamorphoses
Jan 1st 		music
Flora Purim
& Airto Moriera
May 5th 		music
Ani Di Franco
Jun 6th 		theater
James Joyce's
The Dead
Oct 28th 		music
LIVE 105
NSSN, BGC
Jun 11th

2002

music
11th Harmonica Blues Summit
Jan 13th 		music
Cabin Fever
Sep 11th 		music
Hot Tuna
Mar 8th 		music
Jim White
Jul 20th 		music
Jorma Kaukonen
Jun 23rd 		music
Oakland Art & Soul
Sep 5th
music
Troilus & Cressida
Aug 25th 		music
SF Blues Festival
Sep 29th 		theater
Lackawanna Blues
Nov 29th 		music
Taj Mahal
Dec 31st

2003

yoshi's
Birelilagrene Gypsy Project
Mar 6th 		music
Foo Fighters & Transplants
Apr 11th 		theater
La Casa Azul
Zellerback
May 10th 		music
21th Russian River Jazz Festival
Guernville
Aug 		music
Patti Smith
Fillmore
Aug 17th 		greek
Beck
Aug 22nd
yoshi's
Los Hombres Calientes
Aug 28th 		music
Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival
GG Park
Oct 5th 		theater
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
Oct 19th 		cuisine
Soizic Bistro
Oakland
Oct 26th 		music
Chris Smither
The Freight
Nov 4th 		yoshi's
Dr John
Nov 7th
music
NSSN
Bill Graham Civic
Dec 12th

2004

music
Loren Rowan
Rancho Nicasio
Jan 10th 		music
Hot Tuna & Box Set
Fillmore
Jan 28th 		music
Jeremy Miller & Sandfly
Mar 6th 		McGrath's
Houston Jones
Apr 		music
12th Santa Cruz Blues Festival
Aptos
May 30th 		Yoshi's
Django Project
Jul 31st
cuisine
Yume Sushi
Alameda 		theater
The Black Rider
ACT Geary Theater
Sep 24th 		music
The Waifs
Fillmore
Nov 18th 		theater
Eurydice
Berkeley Rep
Nov 21st

2005

music
Robert Cray
Fox Theatre
Jan 22nd 		theater
Bridge and Tunnel
Berkeley Rep
Jan 30th 		McGrath's
Ron Thompson
Feb 6th 		Vietnam
30th Anniversary End of Vietnam War
Apr 30th 		theater
I Am My Own Wife
Curran Theatre
May 3rd - 5th 		music
The Heartland Festival
Alameda
Jun 12th
music
The Rowan Brothers
Rancho Nicasio
Jun 19th 		Pride Parade
35th Annual Gay Pride Parade
SF
Jun 26th 		art
Fire Arts Festival The Crucible, Oakland
Jul 17th 		wine
Art and Wine Fest
Alameda
Jul 31st 		music
Elvin Bishop
Rancho Nicasio
Aug 21st 		McGrath's
Houston Jones
Sep 18th
special event
Roller Derby Night
Alameda HS Gym
Oct 23rd 		music
LIVE 105 NSSN
Bill Graham Civ
Dec 9th

2006

music
Jorma Kaukonen
Feb 2nd 		McGrath's
Ron Thompson & Mitch Moughan
Mar 17th 		McGrath's
David Elias
Apr 22nd 		music
Santa Cruz Blues Festival
Aptos
May 26th 		cuisine
Ciao! Bella!
Ben Lomond
May 28th 		music
Natasha Miller & Bobby Sharp
Kelly's
Jun 3rd
music
BFD Shoreline
Girltalk At The Baltic
Jun 10th 		music
Goo Goo Dolls & Counting Crows
Jun 26th 		music
Foo Fighters
Jul 15th 		special event
32nd Solano Faire
Albany
Sep 10th 		music
Alice Now & Zen Festival
GG Park
Sep 17th 		theater
Passing Strange
Berkeley Rep
Oct 27th
music
LIVE 105 NSSN
Bill Graham Civ
Dec 9th

2007

theater
The Pillowman
Berkeley Rep
Jan 19th 		music
Houston Jones
Feb 8th 		theater
To The Lighthouse
Berkeley Rep
Mar 2nd 		theater
The Blue Door
Berkeley Rep
Apr 13th 		music
Rodrigo y Gabriela
The Grand
Apr 26th 		music
Chicago Blues Festival
Chicago
Jun 8th
music
Oakland Jazz Festival
Jul 27th 		music
Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival
GG Park
Oct 5th - 7th 		music
Strunz & Farah
Herbst
Sep 23rd 		music
Robben Ford
Sep 27th 		theater
Bulrusher
Shotgun Players
Oct 21st 		theater
After The Quake
Berkeley Rep
Nov 3rd
music
Ben Harper
Paramount
Nov 17th 		theater
Argonautika
Berkeley Rep
Nov 24th

2008

music
Mirah and the Blow
Jan 27th 		music
Foo Fighters
Oracle Arena
Feb 2nd 		cuisine
Elephant Bar & Grill
Emeryville
Apr 6th 		music
Death Cab For Cutie
Jun 21st 		music
Stevie Wonder
Sleep Train
Jul 8th 		music
Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival
Speedway Meadows
Oct 4th
music
Patti Smith
Warfield
Oct 20th 		music
Bridge School Benefit
Shoreline
Oct 25th 		theater
Arabian Nights
Berkeley Rep
Nov 19th 		theater
Joe Turner's Come & Gone
Berkeley Rep
Dec 2nd 		music
NSSN
Oracle Arena
Dec 11th

2009

music
Pharoah Sanders
Jan 4th 		music
Labelle
Paramont
Jan 30th 		theater
Social Distortion
Fox Theater
Feb 6th 		theater
In The Next Room
Berkeley Rep
Feb 11th 		theater
Angry Black White Boy
Intersection
Feb 26th 		music
Bloc Party
Fox Theatre
Apr 20th
theater
Lt Of Inishmore
Berkeley Rep
Apr 29th 		theater
Boleros For The Disenchanted
ACT, SF
May 9th 		theater
Fuku Americanus
Intersection
May 15th 		music
TV On The Radio
Fox Theatre
May 22nd 		music
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Fox Theatre
Sep 9th 		theater
American Idiot
Berkeley Rep
Sep 22nd
music
Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival
Speedway Meadows
Oct 4th 		music
Leon Russell
Now 11th 		theater
Tiny Kushner
Berkeley Rep
Nov 21st 		special; event
33rd Yacht Parade
The Estuary
Dec 5th 		music
NSSN
Oracle Arena
Dec 11th 		theater
Aurelia's Oratorio
Berkeley Rep
Dec 29th

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