June 2010
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 6/21-6/27
This week in San Francisco: Hey Honey, it’s the Tamale Lady’s birthday!, Flaming tassels at Cafe Du Nord, The Big Lebowski meets William Shakespeare at SF IndieFest, McSweeney’s and the Believer get it on at Amnesia for an All Acoustic…
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Summer Loving
Summer, a time for skirts, sun screen, and seriously cheap McSweeney’s books. That’s right, the “once-a-year, potentially ill-advised” Summer sale offered by the San Francisco based publishing house starts today, and prices are seriously low. An example? What is the…
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Aqueous/Artistic/Inspiration
Thomas Campbell is a self-described stuff maker, creating clean sloping lines and eccentricities through mostly any medium. The Gregory Lind Gallery recently held his exhibition, which housed bronze sculptures, paintings on wood, gourds, paper and canvas. He paints, sprays and…
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William Kunstler & Agnès Varda on POV
This Tuesday and next, the PBS doc show POV is broadcasting two great documentaries that I highly recommend. Tomorrow at 1o pm (check local listings; your date and time may differ) check out William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe. Kunstler made…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #41
SANTA CLAUS ★★★★★ (4 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Santa Claus.
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Auto-Tune the News #12: Weed. Lesbian Allegaytions.
Read “The Rumpus Mini-Interview with The Gregory Brothers.”
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Write to Get Paid
“I really believe that most writers in America have taken on this idea that we’re never going to get paid–and so we accept so little for what we do, when what we do is so valuable. And it’s wanted.” —Ali…
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The Rumpus Book Club, Where I Live #2: Corey Duncan Stewart
I wake sticky hot in the early afternoon to the sounds of construction next door, Rottweilers barking down below and Chinese workers squabbling as a Puerto Rican woman screams from her window for someone unknown. I take out my earplugs…
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The Last Book I Loved: Dating Jesus
I keenly remember the day my Grandmother died. My parents picked me up early from afterschool care and before I could ask why, my Mother said “We’re going to your Grandfather’s house.” I asked, “Don’t you mean Grandmommy’s house?” My…
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Kyle Kinane’s I’m Dead and It’s All My Fault #35
Doug, check it out! I fixed the microwave so it runs even when the door’s open. No more wasting time with all this “open, close, open, close” bullshit. Yeah, well sometimes I feel like you’re gonna give me cancer. More.