This ran in SFBG last spring. I wanted to write about the Wojnarowicz book, cuz its THE SHIT! A lost bit of San Francisco’s secret history involves how Food Not Bombs may have made the old fountain at Civic Center disappear. During the mid-’90s, when the SFPD showed up daily at Civic Center to arrest [...]
This ran in the SF Bay Guardian last summer. I still don’t like those Arcadia books, but I got to talk about some cool lost history in this piece… Amid the pages of San Francisco’s Chinatown, a 2006 entry in Arcadia Publishing’s Images of America series, is a 1968 photo from what we are told [...]
This piece came out this April, written ostensibly to celebrate the release of Chris Carlsson’s new book, Nowtopia. I read about 30 Utopian and Dystopian books for it — pretty fun. After the ruins SF’s pasts and futures — and Chris Carlsson’s Nowtopia In a journal entry dated December 27, 1835 from his 1840 book [...]
Chief Norm Stamper’s memoir attempts to remake the man who ordered the gassing of nonviolent protesters at the WTO protests in Seattle 11/99 into a progressive hero. I called him on it in the sfbg, while admitting that I somewhat enjoyed his entertaining book… REVIEW “If you can’t beat [...]