THE ONLY GOOD THING LEFT IN SAN FRANCISCO: Punk poetry persists

The only good thing left in San Francisco is the North Beach First Friday Poetry Crawl. It is 2024, and someone hollers rhapsodic into a microphone as a saxophone squeals and a crowd of artists and their admirers snap their fingers. It could be 1964 or 1981 or sometime in the seventies or nineties or last Read More

THE ONLY GOOD THING LEFT IN SAN FRANCISCO: A show of indisputable love

The only good thing left in San Francisco is the “Acts of Care” exhibition at Ruth’s Table. A photograph: a hand. A photograph: a bare back. Some photographs: hair being touched, hair being cut, hair being brushed, hair being treasured.  Care. This city is spoken about as one that is empty: empty structures and shops, Read More