EPICANTHUS

San Francisco’s 34th Annual Nihonmachi Street Fair is taking place this weekend. It’s a great community event that easily rivals L.A.’s Tofu Fest/Nisei Week mashup or others around the country. If you’re in the Bay Area, run down to Japantown and take in the festivities. Some OG’s say nothing better captures the spirit of the Asian American movement which gave birth to the fair in the ’70s than Leland Wong’s lovingly silk-screened Nihonmachi Street Fair posters. From 1974 to 2004, Wong created audaciously themed, dynamically illustrated, vividly colored posters that defined the event each year. (More?)