Zack Ruskin

Calm down, babe, you’re not listening—I said they’re MAGIC beans.

Joan Baez’s protest music is front and center in star-studded tribute Held at S.F.’s Masonic, the evening included performances from Baez as well as Emmylou Harris, Lucinda Williams, Taj Mahal, Tom Morello, Jackson Browne.

Beautiful portrait of a star studded Baez tribute by @zackruskin.bsky.social Especially ♥️ the quote from someone riding the bus after the concert! www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

He’ll be starring in a reality series on HGTV in under a year.

they should not be public servants and take an oath to be so if they can countenance the death of their country before threats to themselves

Saw PAVEMENTS last night and love that a major plot point involves Joe Keery (Stranger Things) being *convinced* he's going to win an Oscar for playing Stephen Malkmus.

Didn’t think I could possibly love Tim Robinson even more but did you ever notice he’s cast more non white & even trans people in 3 seasons of I Think You Should Leave than Lorne Michaels has in 50 years of Saturday Night Live?

Bumping this with the hope that a senator might see it

Incredible to see a political party so addicted to losing and fucking over their base

“NOTE TO ALL NAZIS FASCISTS AND KLANSMEN” You delight, So it would seem, At making mince- meat of my dream. If you keep on, Before you’re through, I’ll make mince- meat Out of you.

Langston Hughes

Black history month starts today and this administration would like us to forget it,

I mean it is a big deal, but only because it’s awesome and makes people happy.

love to see the president log on and post like “yo that’s crazy” about a plane crash

Don't tell me that the billionaires running the country don't have my interests at heart. You don't know my interests. What if my interests are to eat shit and die

My knee jerk reaction to every news story in 2025 is like someone put Bart Harley Jarvis up on the screen

Does that sound compelling? Let me write about it for ya!

Not to give the goods away but this book is about so much more than a cult. It's a refreshing pivot from the usual genre fare and the second time in as many titles that Sottile has taken a morbidly fascinating subject and cracked it wide open to reveal far larger, more devastating truths.

Will someone PLEASE accept my pitch to interview @leahsottile.bsky.social about cults and her incredible new book, BLAZING EYE SEES ALL?

I never go public with this stuff but the book deserves extensive coverage and I am stupidly qualified to make it happen. If that's you, zruskin [at] gmail. 💙📚

Everyone keeps telling me to be angry but very few people seem to be telling people what to do with that anger

It'd be funny if there was a slightly worse actor named Scottie B. Pippen.

Electronic artist Jamie xx credits S.F. with ‘unmatched’ after-party scene ahead of Cow Palace show The acclaimed record producer details why his latest solo album — his first in nine years — has him excited to play his own music more than ever before.

"My favorite thing about record shopping is discovering new things. I’m always looking for stuff that I don’t know, rather than the stuff that I want, because it can send you off on all these tangents."

Big up @zackruskin.bsky.social on this #rare Jamie XX chat.

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Last month I FaceTime'd with @ihatejoelkim.bsky.social to preview his return to San Francisco for @sfsketchfest.bsky.social and learn why SF has become a home away from home for him. Also feat. the brilliant @norireed.bsky.social. Via @sfchronicle.com:

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the LA Fires: who's being forgotten? Podcast Episode · Sixteenth Minute (of Fame) · 01/14/2025 · 1h 27m

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you hear Crouching Tiger and you're thinking, well that's gotta be the most fearsome and best camouflaged creature in this title,

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Hello #ppbsides voters! I'd love for you to give a listen if not a vote to my main by Oakland's Shannon and The Clams. I keep coming back to this pitch-perfect description of the band by @zackruskin.bsky.social in the SF Chronicle: "The group you want to play the prom following a zombie apocalypse."

yep. talent doesn't make you a better person. he's a great writer, and a serial sexual abuser. we have to be able to hold both things in our head at the same time.

Still pinching myself that I got to interview legend Richard Kind ahead of his tribute event at San Francisco Sketchfest later this month. Out now via @sfchronicle.com:

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