To your right you’ll find a small lounge with couches facing a window looking out on the cable car stop across the street. Behind that, a long bar that meets the back of the club. To your left there’s a row of seating the length of the bar, and at center, a long skinny walkway-dancefloor [...]
Art is an interventionist tool, pure dialectic, mulberry branch, florum. Rainblowers calling to oncoming clouds: thesis, antithesis. I discovered divination, origin, the reader inhabiting flaxen flowers of space. It was not telepathy but a verb. We were clamoring green out of the cane becoming pictures of calamity. It is not the anthropocene’s membrane we remember; [...]
1) I once bought a round dining table with a label proudly announcing your presence in the world. That was in 1993. Redlick it read. 17 Reasons why. I bought it at a thrift store housed in your hull. 2) I bought it for the fact that the label was intact. 3) I bought it for [...]
Grace grows generationally at the liquor store: My grandma was treated anyoldkindaway My daddy ran the block My high school graduation photo is up and left of the Newports between the plastic above the counter One day on this corner My father told my mother a joke, she covered her mouth to laugh and I [...]
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“The lights of San Francisco form a jewel-like background to the Golden Gate Bridge. San Francisco is aptly called Bagdad-By The Bay.” San Francisco Postcard Collection, San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library. Legendary newspaper columnist Herb Caen loved San Francisco so much he gave it a new name. Two of his early books [...]
Lynn Lonidier’s author photo for A Lesbian Estate. Photo: Fred Lonidier. Few readers of poetry these days — even if they’re poets or artists themselves — likely recognize the name Lynn Lonidier. A fascinating figure from the San Francisco arts scenes of the 1970s and ’80s, Lonidier’s gender-bending experimental poetry serves as exciting precedent to [...]
Group 9, ca. 1991. Left to right, back: Jean Cacicedo, Janet Lipkin, Ana Lisa Hedstrom, Gaza Bowen. Front: K. Lee Manuel, Candace Kling, Marian Clayden. Not pictured: Ina Kozel, Marika Contompasis. I have known Jean Williams Cacicedo for decades — I don’t really remember how many. When I was Curator of Textiles at the Fine [...]