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June 2010
374 posts
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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.
Auto-Tune the News #12: Weed. Lesbian Allegaytions.
Read “The Rumpus Mini-Interview with The Gregory Brothers.”
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…
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…
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…
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…