San Francisco
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Lost in Time and Out of Season: Growing Up in 1960’s Berkeley
“Somethin’s happenin’ here but you don’t know what it is,” Bob Dylan said. I didn’t know a thing about him really when I was a kid—just another name in the mad wind, but truer words were never spoken.
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Photography Mashup
San Francisco photographer Shawn Clover, has been working on a project that compares aftermath photos from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake with pictures he take currently. Unlike other photography projects that present pictures from the past and the present side…
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Andrew Orvedahl Show
Andrew Orvedahl, comedian, Rumpus friend, and creator of The Narrators, is performing on Friday and Saturday at Punch Line San Francisco. You can purchase tickets here.
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SF Demographics
A few figures for some midweek perspective (from a New York Times article about the presence of coyotes in SF parks, and the possibility of coexistence): “In San Francisco, a city of 805,000, there are 108,000 children, according to the…
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Night of the Lilies
The Polk Inn stood out in the tenderloin because of all the beige and glass next to junkies selling stolen bicycles and gizmos out front.
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Post-Quake San Francisco
Here’s a famous photo of San Francisco taken after the 1906 earthquake. You can zoom in and explore the city. The picture was captured from a kite flying 2,000 feet over the Bay.
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Family Traditions
Rumpus artist extraordinaire Jason Novak brings The Bay Citizen an illustrated story of taking his young daughter to the Hunky Jesus Contest, a San Francisco Easter tradition Novak used to attend as a teenager “hungry to outrage” his elders. “Easter…
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Anna Pulley on Savage Love
Rumpus contributor Anna Pulley (who Sugar named as one of her favorite advice columnists) helps Dan Savage answer a query on his latest Savage Love episode. Pulley doles out wisdom on lesbian-identified bisexual women and discusses her Salon piece “San…
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My Little Brother Ruined My Life
“Are you a masochist?” It’s the first thing Bosco asks me. He’s fourteen years old now, almost my height, 5′ 8″, creamy white skin, and a small, German nose from my stepmother’s side of the family.
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Wayward In The Light
Set in a dive bar, Joshua Mohr’s new novel, Damascus follows a weird gang as their lives crumble. Somehow it’s still life-affirming.
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Rock-Poster Designer Wes Wilson, Interviewed
Wes Wilson was the rock-poster guru of the 60’s. His designs were used by the Beatles, the Doors and are so site-specifically San Francisco, from those art-filled days where you could rent a room for 30 bucks a month. He…
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Ian Huebert and The Golden Spoke
Ian Huebert, the San Francisco-based artist who goes way back with the Rumpus (also the mastermind behind the Rumpus logo), has a beautiful poster series out, featured on bus shelters throughout San Francisco. One of the many commuters who depend…