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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
Last goodbye to Miami from TAL’s 100th show, all about radio.
Listen here: http://www.thislife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?sched=712
This is my oft-rebroadcast Urban Fishermen piece from TAL. Hoping to get this one in a book soon, too… Its the audio of the entire show and my piece is near the end so skip ahead if that’s what you’re looking for..
This is from Nate Johnson’s Artery show on KALW radio and ran the week of the building’s “opening” — an exclusive event that the public was not invited to attend (I did see good ole Willie Brown out front, though, making his first visit back to my neighborhood in some years, I imagine…) The piece [...]
Charles Willeford lives! In San Francisco today, we have pot clubs, gay marriage, protesters that occasionally shut down the entire city, and a rich-kid, gelled-hair mayor straight off a TV screen who has been known to wash homeless people’s feet. Is it not fair to ask where, in all this, is the Great San Francisco [...]