This is Not a Typo: Manchester City are Champs
Pete Hausler05.14.12
Neither “Manchester City are the Yankees” nor “Tesla invented soccer” made the cut for a rundown of the English Premier League’s 2011-2012 season. Pete Hausler tells it like it is.
Trayvon Martin Music
Christina Lee05.11.12
Rick Ross drops rap’s most potent verse in the Trayvon Martin tragedy––in the midst of Usher’s merlot-soaked liason with a skirtless lady. Throwaway line or powerful counterpoint? Christina Lee examines rap’s social conscience.
G is for Ghetto
Louis Chude-Sokei05.10.12
Louis Chude-Sokei analyzes the meaning of a word, the reality of a community, and the failed assimilation of an immigrant in Inglewood.
Hybrid Locations: Thoughts on Dreaming or Insomnia and Language
Blake Butler05.04.12
Gathering thought and expression from Joyelle McSweeney and James Joyce, in an excision from Nothing: A Portrait of Insomnia, author Blake Butler examines the strange language of not sleeping.
Raise High The White Flag, Mancini: In Which Manchester City’s Coach Concedes. Again.
Pete Hausler04.28.12
While Manchester City’s on-field form has fluctuated throughout the current English Premier League season, one thing has been constant: Coach Roberto Mancini, the King of the Conceders, has early and often genuflected to City’s cross-town rivals, Manchester United. It’s like he came to England from Italy two years ago expressly to kiss Sir Alex Ferguson’s rings. Rex Ryan he ain’t.
A Tunnel Too Far
Gean Moreno04.26.12
Privatized infrastructure is reshaping Miami, not in an Edward Sharpe “Up From Below” type of way––more in an Underminer way.
Elegy for Adrienne Rich, 1929-2012
Laura Carter04.26.12
The resonant hall of memory is a lot like the First Unitarian Universalist Church on Polk Street, San Francisco. Adrienne Rich held court in both, filling her audience with the direct, fluid power of her words. Laura Carter examines her legacy, grasps at the delta, to find that the poet “long ago moved on / deeper into the heart of the matter.” Rest in peace.
The Fanzine Sports Desk NHL Playoff Preview
Pete Hausler and Michael Louie04.10.12
For some, the warm days of spring conjures images of lush verdant grass fields, the smell of leather, and satisfying thwack! of the ball. Those people are called Leafs fans, who are used to golfing around this time. For the rest of the hockey world, there’s playoffs to be had. Pete Hausler and Mike Louie bring us their previews and picks from the first round.
The Cinema of Whitney Houston (with Bradford Nordeen)
Kevin Killian02.23.12
Fanzine arrived at Moby Dick in San Francisco just in time to see Whitney sing Step By Step on February 11th in a televised tribute to her own life, as happens with celebrity, the product outliving the person, a self-made monument. Fanzine took the long way home, reflecting, and stayed up late watching her films. Kevin Killian’s 2008 essay, with fellow fan Bradford Nordeen, analyzes her mythic presence through her movies, locked in the vice-grip of fame, of performance, of the voice.
The Object is Not the Art
Matthew Sherling02.16.12
Artist Truong Tran presents his second major exhibition in San Francisco, At War, and interviewer Matthew Sherling joins in the fray. As close to home as the living room in Haight Ashbury where poetry is read, music is played, and the plastic cube everyone has been photographed naked in sits placidly, Tran’s art is a natural extension of his poetry––and his distrust of it.
