Salon Sugar Love
Salon columnist Cary Tennis praised Sugar, whose column he called “brilliant and affecting.” The appreciation is mutual; Sugar recently listed Tennis as one of her favorite advice columnists. With all…
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Rebecca K. O’Connor’s piece “When Barbara Jean Was Missing” got love from The Browser. We love you back, Browser!
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Yesterday’s SOPA protests made today’s column extra hard to do, it did however make for some excellent images and confused twitter posts. Google maps are making the world of prehistoric…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Good news all: the Valley of the Kings isn’t just for royals anymore. How about a little typography porn? Public service billboards from times past. Jelly fish jelly fish jelly…
Muni Diaries Live This Saturday!
At this Saturday’s Muni Diaries Live, Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott will be telling his own Muni story. January 21st 7p.m. at the Elbo Room in San Francisco. More info and…
FUNNY WOMEN #73: How to Write Like a Funny Woman
Recently, I started taking improv classes at Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in New York (founded by the high priestess of funny, Amy Poehler). During each class exercise, I’d think, “This…
Zadie Smith on Minding the Gap
Zadie Smith discusses the gap between the ‘developed’ and ‘developing’ world, as well as the need to bridge “the language of development and the language of the rest of us.”…
The Last Poem I Loved: “Poem at the New Year” by John Ashbery
To truly commit a poem to memory is to commit your life to that poem. Out of all the many verses I’ve memorized over the last year, no other has…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
What does (the readership of the BBC think) the future holds! In the meantime, it’s time to start drinking our pee probably. I am in love with this history of…
Notable San Francisco: 1/16-122
This week in San Francisco … Monday 1/16: Join International Workers of the World activists and scholars at Green Arcade for a discussion on the recent re-release of Rebel Voices:…
Notable New York, This Week 1/16-1/22
This week in New York, The Black Power Mixtape 1967—1975 at BAM; Grizzly Adams: The Musical; Reverend Billy at Book Court; Why We Broke Up at WORD; The Nervous Breakdown…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
We’re going to be keeping things low key today. Lest we forget the reason for the season, here’s MLK’s letter to Sammy Davis Jr on the importance of art and…