Marthine Satris

100 years of Grand Lake: Oakland’s favorite cinema is an epic love story How did Oakland’s favorite movie theater survive for a century? The answer includes Ryan Coogler, real butter and a theater operator who fell in love with a money pit.

“In many ways it’s a time capsule. And it will be here for another 100 years.”

For the Grand Lake’s 100th birthday 🎂🍿 I wrote about a romance between a man and architecture — and how it rescued the best theater in the Bay Area.

Gift link for The Town 🌳🎁

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The owners of coffee shops, restaurants, and hotels that put two teabags in a cup, give Earl Grey when you’ve asked for a black tea, don’t give you a saucer or somewhere else to put a teabag, or confuse hot and tepid should be flogged on their way to the tea-based reeducation camps.

We're ready for you, are you ready for this week?

All right! Looking forward to meeting you!

Doing my best to culture up this app and bring the IRL to the URL....

Join us this Friday! All words are welcome, as are listening ears, as we sit around a table with beer and water and share poems, very informally. Then troop over with us to Golden Sardine to listen to poets Kelly Gray, Nica Giromini, and Brian Ang on the mic for the @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social launch!

I missed last Friday at Tamarack but now it lives forever on the Internet and in my mind thanks to the newest ORB vibe report!

And don't forget to check the calendar, out tomorrow, to see who's on deck for this week's reading in the perpetual poetry motion machine of Fridays at Tamarack in Oakland

Structured Repetition Tamarack, last Friday evening

Also, I was remembering that after @tcraggs22.bsky.social & @zunguzungu.bsky.social conceived of the vibe report for ORB, @xlenc.bsky.social & @pauline2k.bsky.social & I wrote the very first one last May, a triangulation on poets at Tamarack: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/structured-r...

The Brooklyn to Oakland connection is strong, but the Oakland to Berkeley connection is stronger, and multigenerational, and is standing on the corner with a beer because it's hot in February.

Last summer we went to the National museum of the American Indian in DC, and I loved that the menu at the cafe is rooted in traditional foods of Native peoples from across the US. I've eaten at both past iterations of the Ohlone cafe; glad there's yet another point of entrance for folks to connect.

Smoked duck sandwiches, chia seed pudding, and tater tots: Introducing the new Ohlone-crafted cafe at Lawrence Hall of Science The UC Berkeley science center launched 'ammatka from Vincent Medina and Louis Trevino in February as part of its larger 'ottoy initiative.

Excited to enjoy the food at 'ammatka, the new cafe from Ohlone language and culture keepers Vincent Medina and Louis Trevino, at the Lawrence Hall of Science, next time I take my kids! oaklandside.org/2026/03/02/a...

A book of poetry on top of a teal/beige blanket. Title of book is ALOCASIA: 99 queer writers on plants and nature. Edited by Sarah Clark and Ashley Adams.

Look what showed up at my house this weekend!! So incredibly honored to be included in @alocasiamag.bsky.social 's collection of queer plant poems!

Restoration Update: In the Wake of Klamath Dam Removal • The Revelator Conservation crews have helped plant and seed thousands of native trees and other vegetation. Salmon have responded in kind.

Restoration Update: In the Wake of Klamath Dam Removal https://therevelator.org/klamath-restoration-update/

KPFA’s International Women’s Day Broadcast
24 hours of feminist talk, analysis, storytelling, and music.

March 8–9 | 6am–6am
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#KPFA #InternationalWomensDay #Feminism #HerStories #WomensVoices

just was rereading Sidney's Apology for Poetry and he concurs.

OK this had to have been their first dance right

real good fruit

ugh, just realized I mixed up Skyhorse and Sourcebooks in a recent conversation about very successful independent publishers. Skyhorse is the one with the habit of publishing crazy right wingers, Soucebooks just romantasies it up. SO SORRY Sourcebooks.

" In visual art and poetry, they seem often to be associated with awe inspired by vast scale, dramatic contrast or the sense of encountering something sublime."

I'm a Romantic, what can I say 😁

ROFL, of course the answer is dopamine release. Hello old friend, we meet again.

Aesthetic chills= pleasure center activation

"chills often occur at moments of build-up and release, such as a crescendo or an unexpected change in harmony...."

A spine-tingling reason great music gives only some of us chills As Vladimir Nabokov wrote, artistic delight is often felt between the shoulder blades — and scientists are a step closer to knowing why

I get chills up and down my body and the hairs raise on my arms when I'm listening to remarkably good poetry or hear a really inspiring and exciting idea for a book (music isn't my core art form but I can relate!): www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...

Biology Seminar Series: Barnabas Daru, "The biogeography of plants on land and in the sea"

plant folks, this looks like a very cool talk next Monday by a plant biologist focused on patterns of distribution: events.stanford.edu/event/biolog...

IT’S OUR TIME. EVERYBODY CELEBRATE THE WEDDING THIS MOMENT CREATED www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPCJ...

don’t doomscroll.
read a chapter instead.

In California, the buckwheats support pollinators in the summer, as do asters! I love them.

Heard Vanessa in conversation w/ Cassie Thornton (feministeconomicsdepartment.com) & Judit Navratil at Dream Farm Commons -- so many interesting ideas about community formation, both embodied & virtual (meaning, really, in language or using visual/aural senses: on the phone, on email, in VR etc).

oh exactly!! It's like a little light finally when it's been dark for so long. A new day is dawning!

It's an amazing thing isn't it. A turning point! He might not do it again tonight but you know it's possible, and it becomes more and more frequent and then it's just the new reality. For a while anyways.

Illuminati list just dropped: Bohemian Grove camp members from 2023 leaked The full 2023 retreat member list was published by an independent journalist. Many, many Bay Area pooh-bahs are on it.

In case you need a distraction, Bohemian Grove’s membership list leaked: sfstandard.com/2026/02/25/n...

Like culture posts on this app simply don’t get the engagement and I think it’s because people feel it’s frivolous and actually it’s the thing we are fighting for, the freedom to make culture and cultural works