The Last City I Loved: San Francisco
One part of me will always be on my roof in the Sunset District, smoking with my human butt on a damp spot, my cigarette butt about to rest on a similarly moist shingle.
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Posts Tagged: San Francisco
Make Mine a Double Decker
San Francisco residents (or anyone amused by public transportation shenanigans) should look no further than Muni Diaries’s Five Best Muni Moments.
Favorite: “a rider saw two guys selling Starbucks coffee beans out of a suitcase on the back of the 22-Fillmore.
...moreGet Out of My Crotch! Reading/Signing
If you live in the Bay Area and have forgotten whose crotch to get out of, have we got a reminder for you: a reading and book-signing of Get Out of My Crotch!, the feminist anthology featuring several Rumpus writers that came out in January.
...moreMission Art Explosion This Weekend!
San Francisco! Come out this weekend to Art Explosion Spring Open Studios.
The opening reception will be held this Friday night at two locations, 2425 17th St and 744 Alabama St, from 7pm-11pm. There will be open studios on Saturday and Sunday from 12pm-5pm.
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Spotlight: In San Francisco, There Is a Street
A comic based on a French children’s song found in a book by Georges Perec, who found it in a book by Paul Eluard, who heard some French children singing the song
...moreWhere Bunny Rabbits Meet Black Flag
Hot tip from Xeni Jardin: the Bay Area Film Society is screening Farmcore tomorrow at New Nothing Cinema in San Francisco.
Farmcore is a documentary about the Farm, a San Francisco community center during the ’70s and ’80s that housed gardens, farm animals, daycare facilities, a library, and…a venue for punk bands like the Dead Kennedys and the Descendents.
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The Rumpus Interview with Octavio Solis
Pulitzer Prize-nominated playwright Octavio Solis sits down for a chat about night terrors, universal storytelling, and finding a home with the Magic Theatre of San Francisco.
...moreNon-fan Nato’s Guide to Super Bowl Rioting
As the 49ers head to the Super Bowl, San Francisco can’t stuff its excitement into a hemp messenger bag fast enough.
In one season, our City—Bill O’Reilly’s favorite punchline for everything fey and un-American—may defeat the nation in baseball and football.
...moreNew York: Still Not the Only Interesting Place to Live
“Like many people who moved to San Francisco in the early 1990s, I did it because San Francisco was cheap,” Ken Layne writes in a post for the Awl titled “Is San Francisco the Brooklyn to Silicon Valley’s Unbuilt Manhattan?
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The Lonely Voice #21: So Long Adobe Books
Another bookstore closes and San Francisco yawns. But Adobe Books on 16th Street, between Valencia and Guerrero isn’t another bookstore. It is a haven, a port for lonely souls, readers.
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ZYZZYVA’S Winter Issue Party
Come out to The Booksmith on Tuesday, December 11th for ZYZZYVA’s Holiday Party and Reading to celebrate the release of their Winter Issue.
Featuring Rumpus contributor Chaney Kwak, Carolyn Miller, Brian Boies and Earle McCartney. Complimentary drinks and snacks will be provided.
...moreSF’s Fireside Storytelling
Tomorrow is Fireside’s monthly storytelling event at The Jellyfish Gallery in SOMA.
The lineup includes Rumpus interviewee Joe Loya, NPR’s Doug Cordell, and former San Francisco mayoral candidate Chicken John. The theme is IN HOT PERSUIT/ THE GREAT ESCAPE, which is “intentionally broad, so we could be hearing stories about car chases, breaking up with that ‘special’ someone, or somewhere in between.”
Tickets are $10 and the show starts at 8pm.
...moreSF’s Adobe Bookshop Lives!
Good news: Adobe Bookshop, which has spent twenty-three years in the Mission, will not be closing despite rising rent.
Andrew McKinley, the proprietor of Adobe, explains his plan to transform the shop.
“I choose to be an optimist and believe that the store can be saved, providing enough people band together to contribute labor, sufficient funds, and creative energy to transform Adobe Bookshop into a viable cooperative business entity.
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The Rumpus Interview with Scott Hutchins
Longtime Rumpus contributor Scott Hutchins discusses his debut novel, A Working Theory of Love, the Turing test, instant messaging chatbots, and whether technology is actually in danger of isolating and alienating people.
...moreThe Bold Italic’s Bold Rush
The Bold Italic is going on tour!
The site will be traveling up and down the west coast to Los Angeles, Portland, and Seattle. In each city, there will be a pop-up shop featuring goodies from local San Francisco stores, an art show curated by Dan Johnson Lake, Berlin Style Ping-Pong, and much more!
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Lost in Time and Out of Season: Growing Up in 1960′s Berkeley
“Somethin’s happenin’ here but you don’t know what it is,” Bob Dylan said. I didn’t know a thing about him really when I was a kid—just another name in the mad wind, but truer words were never spoken.
...morePhotography Mashup
San Francisco photographer Shawn Clover, has been working on a project that compares aftermath photos from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake with pictures he take currently. Unlike other photography projects that present pictures from the past and the present side by side, Clover melds the two photos into each other, making his work all the more impressive:
“Now comes the fun part. Where was the exact spot the photographer stood?
...moreAndrew Orvedahl Show
Andrew Orvedahl, comedian, Rumpus friend, and creator of The Narrators, is performing on Friday and Saturday at Punch Line San Francisco.
You can purchase tickets here.
...moreSF Demographics
A few figures for some midweek perspective (from a New York Times article about the presence of coyotes in SF parks, and the possibility of coexistence):
“In San Francisco, a city of 805,000, there are 108,000 children, according to the 2010 census.
...moreNight of the Lilies
The Polk Inn stood out in the tenderloin because of all the beige and glass next to junkies selling stolen bicycles and gizmos out front.
...morePost-Quake San Francisco
Family Traditions
Rumpus artist extraordinaire Jason Novak brings The Bay Citizen an illustrated story of taking his young daughter to the Hunky Jesus Contest, a San Francisco Easter tradition Novak used to attend as a teenager “hungry to outrage” his elders.
“Easter in Dolores Park is part of the fabled other country that swells in my imagination.
...moreAnna Pulley on Savage Love
Rumpus contributor Anna Pulley (who Sugar named as one of her favorite advice columnists) helps Dan Savage answer a query on his latest Savage Love episode. Pulley doles out wisdom on lesbian-identified bisexual women and discusses her Salon piece “San Francisco Turned Me Straight.”
...moreWayward In The Light
Set in a dive bar, Joshua Mohr’s new novel, Damascus follows a weird gang as their lives crumble. Somehow it’s still life-affirming.
...moreRock-Poster Designer Wes Wilson, Interviewed
Wes Wilson was the rock-poster guru of the 60’s. His designs were used by the Beatles, the Doors and are so site-specifically San Francisco, from those art-filled days where you could rent a room for 30 bucks a month.
He talks about the age of pre-computer designing, 60’s San Francisco and the evolution of his psychedelic aesthetic in this interview with Collector’s Weekly.
...moreIan Huebert and The Golden Spoke
Ian Huebert, the San Francisco-based artist who goes way back with the Rumpus (also the mastermind behind the Rumpus logo), has a beautiful poster series out, featured on bus shelters throughout San Francisco. One of the many commuters who depend on two-wheeled transportation, Huebert’s series, The Golden Spoke, documents city life from the bicyclist’s perspective.
...moreThe SF Dweller
Broke-Ass Stuart’s site-specific musings on the San Francisco living experience are illustrated by our very own comic master, Wendy MacNaughton in the Bold Italic. He breaks down the major SF living points and she makes them into aesthetically pleasing diagrams, both of which are eerily accurate.
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