Will Craven

R.E.M., “These Days”

‘A Creator’s Dream’: Inside the SF Studio Building a Hub for Low-Income Artists Hospitality House has purchased a mid-Market building that contains the nonprofit’s fine art studio — securing its future forever.

NEW: @hospitalityhousesf.bsky.social has purchased 1009 Market St., the building housing its fine art studio. In a time of economic insecurity, a rise in anti-homelessness sentiment, and an affordability crisis, this acquisition is a rare win for low-income artists in San Francisco

BRUCE BOONE CENTURY OF CLOUDS

I am. It is divine.

Folded letters sealed with red sealing wax

Sent off the first batch of Alas, So Long CDs and had to add something suitably historical in with them.

We've still some in stock if you fancy our CD of music inspired the 19th century & a letter inspired by the 18th Century!

Bari Weiss Signs Huge Deal To Usher CBS News Into Its Vichy Era | Defector On Monday, newly appointed Paramount CEO David Ellison announced that his company had acquired the Free Press, the smirking blood-and-soil blog founded and run by former New York Times hall monitor Ba...

I wrote about Bari Weiss as the grim future of mainstream media under billionaire control: defector.com/bari-weiss-s...

I Luv Mondays I Luv Mondays with Will on BFF.fm. Listen to show archives, or tune in live Monday 10:00 – 11:00am. BFF.fm is a San Francisco community radio station supporting emerging and underground artists and br...

10am sharp, on @bff.fm :

--Mox
--Sachi's Mirror
--Pocket Full of Crumbs
--Spa
--Joel Cusumano
--Whitney's Playland

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“Women didn’t love him. They still don’t.”

I've never seen it but I do love the idea of a soap opera called Search for Tomorrow

Exclusive: Bay Area university to open $240 million downtown Oakland campus. Here’s a look inside The 10-story, 260,000-square-foot building will have state-of-the-art classrooms, a virtual reality center and space for motion analysis research.

Exclusive: Bay Area university to open $240 million downtown Oakland campus. Here’s a look inside—
Samuel Merritt University will bring 2,000 in-person Oakland students and hundreds of faculty and staff to a massive building… www.sfchronicle.com/eastbay/arti... Roland Li @sfchronicle.com

Not in the 2015 part, in the dystopian 1985 part.

Teenage Wildlife Teenage Wildlife (earlier studio take, rough mix). Teenage Wildlife. Teenage Wildlife (live, 1995). Teenage Wildlife (unbroadcast White Room perf., 1995). Teenage Wildlife (live, 1996). Only last s…

This is good on Bowie and his young disciples.

Teenage Wildlife's third verse is an all-timer.

bowiesongs.wordpress.com/2011/09/07/t...

Leave it to Back to the Future II (1989) to actually nail Trump and inequality politics?

Can confirm this is Craven-proof.

Eurotrash, by Christian Kracht (2024)

Now reading:

Gary Burton Quintet, Dreams So Real: Music of Carla Bley (1976)

Been digging this one lately:

Good Riddance To ‘The Best American Poetry’ | Defector When David Lehman, a poet then working as a book critic for Newsweek, proposed the project for The Best American Poetry anthology, he was searching for a national platform. His first anthology project...

“The anthology’s profit is a kind of surplus literariness, an investment in the public literary good. But where does this metaphorical profit flow?” I absolutely adore this essay from @nicksturm.bsky.social

Oakland Review of Books calendar of (not just) literary events, September 30 - October 5 surfaces fit for projection

Film, drunkenness, rain, and books are coming!

Oakland Review of Books calendar of (not just) literary events, September 30 - October 5: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/oakland-revi...

Too often, we talk about homelessness as if it's natural or inevitable. The truth is that it's a political choice.

When then-Gov. Cuomo cut the Advantage program rather than tax his wealthy donors, his decision sent thousands of New York families into shelters.

How many colons should I put in this sentence?

I Luv Mondays I Luv Mondays with Will on BFF.fm. Listen to show archives, or tune in live Monday 10:00 – 11:00am. BFF.fm is a San Francisco community radio station supporting emerging and underground artists and br...

10am on @bff.fm:

--Ayodele Nzinga
--Wife
--Credit Electric
--Agnes Martian
--Jas Stade
--Brown Dog

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Tenants Seek to Unionize One Private Equity Firm's Entire Housing Portfolio By organizing renters across Capital Realty Group’s affordable housing complexes, the Tenant Union Federation hopes to bring sectoral bargaining to negotiations with large landlords.

This is kinda incredible that renters from multiple units in a realtor's portfolio are organizing for tenants' rights.

This is fucking horrifying.

Defector Reads A Book Is Deciding If This Is The Funniest Novel Ever Written | Defector The last few times Defector staffers have gathered to read a book, we’ve chosen sports novels. Namely, baseball and cycling. Well, we’re continuing that trend with the sport of chasing down your wife,...

I will be taking the position: Yes

OH LOOK WHAT I FOUND IN THE LIVING ROOM SHELVES

10/ Instead of centering men who missed the boat (and still don't seem to get it), let's lift up the work of Paulina Borsook, who saw it all very clearly and tried to warn us 25 years ago.

Someone should do a profile of her very interesting life. And hey, let's drop some cash into her GoFundme!

"The Oakland Review of Books is coming!" it says on our website, and if you haven't noticed, we've started publishing ever-so-slightly-more ambitious things as we ramp up towards really cutting loose.

If you'd like to follow along, for the low price of $0 (American), you can get it in your inbox:

I needed this one.

I Luv Mondays 373: Paper Dresses Catch on Fire

Jefferson Airplane
Angoisse Magazine(Paris)
Sachi's Mirror
Naked Roommate
Axxident (Tijuana)
MUFFLER
Flaco El Jandro(Salinas)
Aux Meadows
Half Stack
Tom Henry(LA)
Mae Powell
Anna Hillburg
April Magazine
Demora
RYLI
Devoted Fans

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