Notable San Francisco, This Week: 6/14-6/20
This week in San Francisco: The June Monthly Rumpus!, short operas, burlesque, underground film, and cardboard tube fighting! Monday 6/14: It’s that time again: get your ass down to the…
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Morning Coffee
Hidden posters discovered in the Notting Hill tube stop. (Hurray!) Important question du jour: Are smarter people actually more likely to kill themselves? This is all in French, but that…
Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
Check out this terrific interview with Amy King at Huffington Post on the current “Femininaissance” in poetry. Artifice Mag muses on summer reading and wants to know what you’re reading…
Beautiful Beginnings in San Francisco
The next Rumpus is this Monday(!), do you have your tickets yet? The Rumpus and SMITH Magazine Proudly Present: Beautiful Beginnings June 14th at The Make-Out Room, 3225 22nd Street,…
Science Saturday
A Japanese spacecraft has deployed the first ever solar sail. Confirmation of the discovery of the youngest planet outside our solar system. Algae-powered flight. Yet another reason to be terrified…
Oil Spill Update
NOAA releases oil trajectory forecasts for the Gulf coastline. This NY Times article suggests Floridians are mad at their neighbors over the oil spill, and we are now, but less…
Iran’s Green Revolution, One Year later
Alexandra Sandels reports that security is tight in Tehran. Eskander Sedaghi discusses where the Green Revolution has to go next. Greg Scoblete asks how much would be different had the…
Saturday Morning Links
Late start this morning. I’d like to take a moment to thank all the Belgian beer that made this late start possible. In the event you’re having trouble finding enough…
Blame the Oil Spill on Poets
Over at HTMLGiant, Blake Butler blames the Oil Spill on poets. In the comments section, poets retaliate with Elizabeth Bishop.
Wells Tower Wins Young Lion Fiction Award
Wells Tower went home last night with the New York Public Library’s Young Lion Fiction Award. Presumably because he’s been nominated for several awards and not won, a friend of…