Folks have been writing to ask, “I heard you, like, joined Black Flag or something? WTF?!?” At last the full story can be told! I hitchhiked to Taylor, Texas with a bass guitar to persuade Greg Ginn to let me try out for Black Flag. You can read about it here in the April issue [...]
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Here at last is the long awaited new issue of SCAM, the story of the making of my favorite record ever, Black Flag’s classic first LP, Damaged. Based on an expanded version of a story I wrote for the LA Weekly last winter to celebrate the record’s 30th anniversary, the zine includes primary interviews with [...]
My long piece on SF poet, activist, and, yes, guerilla warrior, Roberto Vargas ran this week in the Bay Guardian. It tells the now somewhat forgotten story of how Latino poets in the Mission in the 1970′s went to fight alongside the Sandnistas in their victorious revolutionary war against the dictator, Somoza. The story is [...]
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This past week in San Francisco I completed two new pieces about gentrification in the city and you can check them both out here. For the San Francisco Bay Guardian, I wrote a celebration of the life’s work of San Francisco noir novelist Peter Plate that can be found online here. http://www.sfbg.com/2010/10/12/lost-city Due to what [...]
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The new issue of Scam is finally finished and out in the world. This issue is 64-pages and has a three-color cover I letter-pressed myself with help from the generous folks at The Arm here in Brooklyn. This action-packed issue is about my trip back to my hometown of Miami as a reporter to cover [...]
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In December, I returned to Miami to cover Art Basel Miami Beach for the San Francisco Bay Guardian and to check out the mammoth art fair’s effects on my hometown. Miami, still the poorest city in the nation and now chock full of half-empty condos, has sought to reinvent itself by linking itself to the [...]
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The San Francisco Bay Guardian this week ran my lengthy piece about the great Bolano and my take on the Obama Era we are entering. Hope you like it! There is a wry but hilarious scene near the very end of Roberto Bolaño’s novel 2666 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 912 pages; $30), in which a [...]
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Here’s the recent sfbg cover story on freight hopping writers and photographers… Outside of a small Central Florida town, I hopped my first freight train in spring 1993, in a place that seemed even then to be somehow outside of time. My first train sat on a siding behind a drive-in theater along old Highway [...]
This little blurb for Josh’s book made it into sfbg just after the RNC… “There is no question in my mind that corporations are fighting to control every square inch of public landscape,” writes author Macphee in this impressive and handsome new book. Equal parts stencil art gallery, movement history and public art manifesto, Stencil [...]
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I was proud to get this story of greedy, evicting landlords in the Mission on the air during the dot-com era in SF. I have a great photo of friends listening to this show in the 949 Market squat. This is the piece that opens On The Lower Frequencies: A Secret History of The City.
http://www.thislife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?sched=873
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