And finally, in San Francisco Review of Whatever, Issue Three, read our book reviews: San Francisco Review of Books ⚫️

Wren Farrell's review of Butter is SO GOOD.

In Issue Three! In “A Face for Poker,” film writer Rebecca Turner plays to unusual advantage at the casino in the land of the dead, Colma, California. Get Issue Three here: sfrw.square.site/product/issu...

In Issue Three! Who is at the art opening? You might recognize some of these characters in the latest comic by Kate Rhoades (@katerhoades.bsky.social) To be slightly triggered by “People at the Art Opening,” purchase Issue Three here: sfrw.square.site

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Label boss Josh Cheon and punk polymath Brontez Purnell are in conversation in the new issue of San Francisco Review of Whatever. We discuss growing up goth, San Francisco's dance parties, archiving Patrick Cowley’s music, and more sfrw.square.site

Come to the Issue Three release party tonight from 6–9pm at Latin American Club!!!!

In Issue Three! Margaret McCarthy watched a clown turn a bit part into a big hit. How did Renée Sedliar—with area clown troupe the Thrillride Mechanics—do that? What does a clown need to clown?

Lian Ladia recounts a guided walk that led to a performance in one of San Francisco's beloved stairwells. The occasion was a closing event for an exhibition of paintings by David Wilson and featured musicians Zekarias Musele Thompson and Joel St. Julien. With photographs by Andrew Owen.

In Issue Three! Artist-electrician Rico Duenas shows off his beloved Alemany Flea Market, the city’s primo hunting ground for stuff, in a photo essay + interview conducted by his friend David Gabriner, a citizen-historian and fire captain. Preorder Issue Three: sfrw.square.site/product/issu...

In Issue Three! Beatrice Kilat (@beatrick.bsky.social) is back with good advice about choosing to make art among life's other necessary tasks. Do you have a question to ask Bea? Email us at [email protected] 🌝

Do you like to read emails but not to receive them in the email? Here is our latest, with details about Issue Three and its party

In Issue Three! DJ impresario Josh Cheon (@darkentries.bsky.social) and punk polymath Brontez Purnell discuss growing up goth, San Francisco's dance parties, Dolores Park meet-cutes, archiving Patrick Cowley’s gay porn soundtracks, and maintaining the creative drive deep into their careers.

In Issue Three! Katy Burnett (@gewittrderrosen.bsky.social) executes a close read of Halloween II (2009), connecting the film's violent heaviness to the transitional political era in which it was made and viewed—bloody realism for increasingly bloody times. Michael Myers is drawn by Mitsu Okubo.

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Issue Three is coming in February! Alemany Flea, a special clown, Halloween II, more good advice for art professionals, two interviews this time actually!, goths!, a casino in the land of the dead, a CLOUD INTERLUDE, lots of book reviews, AND MORE ...

Now you can read it in the fifth floor reading room at SFPL main library!

Classified ad submissions for Issue Three are due on December 20! Do you want to tell everyone a secret? To share a very short set of instructions? Do you have something or need something? Submit a classified 🌝 airtable.com/appEhjxTGPsR...

This month, we will be donating our profits from sales on Sundays to the Alameda County Community Food Bank. This nation’s present leadership, which we already knew to be venal, are committed to yet more vile acts against our most vulnerable neighbors.

So many people have written wonderfully about Margaret and her incredible influence on the Bay Area art scene. She was a true connector and a generous supporter. As DL Alvarez says, it would take a small committee to fill her shoes. www.kqed.org/arts/1398269...

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Sophia Wang is a mother, a mammal, and a person who knows about bioengineering human breast milk. In “Mama Mammalian” she examines breastfeeding as work, as pleasure, and as a beautiful supply chain of two. Featuring Summoners Cards by Craig Calderwood (@craigcalderwood.bsky.social).

"Make money, they all say. But I like stuff money can't buy. Getting out of my head. Reading, writing, drawing. Imagining that this place is special and mine. I can leave at any time." Rod Roland in @sfreviewofwhatever.bsky.social

In “We Portrait Together,” Anne Walsh (A) reviews IF AN ELSEWHERE (The Burrow), a layered, allegorical collaboration between artist Cybele Lyle (C) and poet Jocelyn Saidenberg (J). Walsh’s idiosyncratic and loving tactics demonstrate that “there are so many ways to write and read.”

In “The Magic Is Here, I Saw It,” poet Christina Svenson delivers an efflorescent review of Soft Core, the novel by performer and local hero, Brittany Newell. To read SAN FRANCISCO REVIEW OF THREE BOOKS SO FAR, order Issue Two here: sfrw.square.site/product/issu...

"The energy of San Francisco is always directed outward, never to return. It would be too much for a city to keep." ❤️ Rod Roland's review (history, memoir) of skateboarding in the new @sfreviewofwhatever.bsky.social

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“I Feel Safe in San Francisco” is a delicate, ranging, topographic memoir by skateboarder-poet Rod Roland, featuring photography by Reggie Guerrero (@meadowy.bsky.social) and a new poem by Tenaya Nasser-Frederick and Rod Roland.

SFRW’s resident Ad Reinhardt (if he were more Ohioan), Kate Rhoades (@katerhoades.bsky.social) made another cartoon about the kinds of objects you might encounter in an art gallery. To read SAN FRANCISCO REVIEW OF ART, order Issue Two here: sfrw.square.site/product/issu...

SFGATE has the Issue Two party report! www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...

By way of A Streetcar Named Desire and The Simpsons, Beatrice Kilat (@beatrick.bsky.social) weighs the risks and chances for love in her debut column: “Ask Bea.” She also considers the chihuahua. To read SOME GOOD ADVICE, order Issue Two here: sfrw.square.site/product/issu...

In “Escolar: Creation of Space,” Cole Hersey visits an art gallery in a shipping container in the suburbs. Our penchant for shipping container topics carries on. To read SAN FRANCISCO REVIEW OF LAND USE, order Issue Two here: sfrw.square.site/product/issu...

"Generally I find it easy to have an opinion than not. They come unbidden, like all the rest of the senses." Our comrades at @sfreviewofwhatever.bsky.social, we at ORB see you:

As of later today when I get my act over to the East Bay, SFRW Issue Two will be in stock at: Black Bird Bookstore and Cafe, Et al. books, Green Apple on the Park, Park Life, Scenic Routes Community Bicycle Center, East Bay Booksellers, Pegasus Books (downtown Berkeley), and Bathers Library

Robert Glück is a poet, essayist, and novelist who co-founded the New Narrative movement. Emily Harter is a painter, printmaker, and sometimes-tattooist whose images are “ruled by cartoon logic.” Forget all that because in Issue Two they’re in conversation about ceramics.

In “Vaillancourt Fountain,” skateboarder and art historian Ted Barrow situates everyone’s favorite fountain, currently under threat of redevelopment, on the past and future Embarcadero. To read SAN FRANCISCO REVIEW OF A FOUNTAIN, order Issue Two here: sfrw.square.site/product/issu...

Thanks for being there! More photos, more details about issue two, and magazines in the mail 🔜

SAN FRANCISCO REVIEW OF WHATEVER ISSUE TWO RELEASE PARTY REMINDER! TOMORROW, Thursday, August 28, at 6 p.m. onward, at Et al., 2831A Mission Street. There will be readings with an element of chance! And pizza and beers, and whatever else turns up. See you tomorrow! Looking forward. xx

As dawn breaks, a magazine appears in the wizard's mailbox.

Issue Two has arrived from the printer! Featuring work by @beatrick.bsky.social, @craigcalderwood.bsky.social, @katerhoades.bsky.social, @meadowy.bsky.social, @quonky.bsky.social, and many others. Orders will go out 🔜 sfrw.square.site

It's here 🌝

hey if you’re missing a pair of brown blundstones they’re sitting on the freeway center divide of 580N right before the richmond bridge

By the way here is an upcoming opportunity to hang out and think good thoughts about each other. Issue Two Release Party, Thursday, August 28, at Et al., 6 p.m. onward 🌝

🙌 “San Francisco Review of Whatever publishes essays and artwork by (mostly) Bay Area contributors, who are artists, farmers, teachers, and poets. Our topics are the usual and unusual critical subjects. This is a print magazine, releasing three issues per year.”

It's happening! It's going to look like this! More on the inner aspects 🔜

Issue Two is coming this summer! San Francisco reviews many things, like skateboarding, art in the suburbs, ceramics, advice, everyone’s favorite fountain, tomatoes, and not one but TWO books. And more! Subscribe anytime at the link in our bio.