Listening to Leo London
If you took the love child of Dylan and Patti Smith, conceived under a full moon with Waits howling somewhere out of sight, and raised him to twenty-four in a…
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 5/31-6/6
This week, get your food on at the Old Mint Building, learn how to write the perfect press release, get crafty at Workshop SF for the Divisadero Art Walk and…
More Memorial Day
“Rogers tried to explain the effects of the Emancipation Proclamation to the woman. “‘Well, you’ll have to fight your way out there before you can get that wench,’ she said.…
Louise Bourgeois
“Ms. Bourgeois’s sculptures in wood, steel, stone and cast rubber, often organic in form and sexually explicit, emotionally aggressive yet witty, covered many stylistic bases. But from first to last…
Ted Wilson Reviews the World #38
THINGS FOUND UNDER MY COUCH CUSHIONS ★★★★★ (4 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing things found under…
Memorial Day
“It’s impossible for me, sitting at such enormous distance from the war in Vietnam, to understand the impact it had on those involved. Memorial Day is intended to be an…
Paper Trail
“I truly believe that we are at a critical crossroads in publishing. As the attention, bandwidth and energy of publishing turns to e-books, we are concerned that what is currently…
No Meat For Sex?
First they said that monkeys do pay for sex, but only in a lab, and once they’ve been taught to use currency. Or maybe, it turned out, that wild macaques…
Morning Coffee
If you should find yourself in London, might we suggest checking out Street Museum? Redesigning NASA. Between the Waters is a super rad community gardens project. High school pictures of…
Emotional Creatures: Excess, Restraint and Deliverance in Antichrist
Lars von Trier's films are effective primarily because he is not afraid of creating complex female characters.