Last year’s Canteen Magazine launch party was swell fun. It’s happening again tomorrow night–Tues, Sept 9, 7-10 p.m. Come say hello to editor Sean Finney and hang out with the literati. Read excerpts from Issue 3 here. WHERE: Root Division gallery 3175 17th Street (at South Van Ness Ave.) DONATION: $10 gets you a copy of Issue 3, cocktails by No. 209 Gin, snacks by Whole Foods, and music by DJ Duke of Windsor. Come celebrate the release of Issue 3. See how Canteen is redefining the literary magazine with creative insight from the likes of Benjamin Kunkel, Dana...
Monthly Archives: September 2008
Order of Myths, + Green Door
THE ORDER OF MYTHS, a documentary film set in my hometown of Mobile, Alabama, directed by Margaret Brown, is showing all day at Lumiere Theater in San Francisco. Brown will be in attendance at the 7:15 and 9:15 shows, along with moderator Sam Green (The Weather Underground). THE ORDER OF MYTHS has received rave reviews everywhere from the New York Times (“a wise and soberly effecting documentary”) to the LA Times (“brilliantly captivating, an invaluable portrait of us-and-them America, a smart, generous, poignant, quietly disturbing movie”). The New York Sun calls it THE KIND OF ILLUMINATING WORK THAT SENDS...
double speak
Talk about flip-flopping! O’Reilly says teen pregnancy is the parents’ fault (unless it’s Sarah Palin’s daughter); Dick Morris thinks it’s okay to level blatant sexist attacks against Hillary, not okay to question Palin about anything, ever; Karl Rove attacks previous Obama VP contendor for having only three years gubernatorial experience and for being mayor of a town of only 200,000 (Palin has been governor for 2 years and was mayor of a town of 6,500). Video via Huffington Post, which has excellent coverage of the convention.
Sarah Palin Says Jesus Wants War
Via Huffington Post, Sarah Palin is convinced it’s “God’s will” to develop the Alaska oil pipeline. Scroll down to watch her bizarre address to the Church of God congregation in her hometown, in which she urges the good people of Alaska to pray for the $30 billion pipeline. Palin is so radically to the right that she campaigned for governor on a platform of drilling in the pristine Arctic National Wildlife Refuge–a position which even McCain opposes. (When asked in an interview what she thought of his position, Palin said that McCain was “evolving” and that he would soon...
The international bestseller about one woman’s search for a missing child…
"Mesmerizing." ~Library Journal, starred review.
Stop dreaming, start writing!
