A talk with Australian born Photographer Kate Seabrook about transit, typography, and the aesthetics of train stations.
Features
The New Nerve Center
Orange County reacts to Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman, and its own history of trauma.
From the Barbary Coast to the 21st Century
Larry Rothe, author of a new history of the San Francisco Symphony, talks about the City, the orchestra, music, and writing.
The Occupation of Silver City
After two months of marked tolerance towards the Occupy Los Angeles camp, L.A. joined the trend of raids and evictions in major cities.
Occupy SF On Record
Occupy San Francisco, in its own words: eight people in Justin Herman Plaza on why they’re there, and what the movement is about.
Lyrically Criminal
Ozarks author Daniel Woodrell writes soaring, lyrical crime fiction that recalls Faulkner as much as Chandler. Our conversation with the author of Winter’s Bone and the new story collection, The Outlaw Album.
The Scanners Project
The Scanners Project is a temporary bookstore meets art installation, a showcase of the tactile pleasures of physicality of books.
Dystopian Rainbows
Tyler Bewley paints landscapes mostly: colorful and whimsical dystopias depicting industrial excess, collapse, and reinvention.
The Scribe of Burning Man
Steven T. Jones (aka Scribe) takes a deep look into Burning Man’s history and inner workings in his book, The Tribes of Burning Man.
I Would Talk With Anyone
Our conversation with Alix Lambert: journalist, television screenwriter, documentarian, playwright, and photographer.
Seeing Through the Dark
Our conversation with Manuel Muñoz, who, in his newest book, juxtaposes the hard-scrabble lives of the people of 1950’s Bakersfield with the glamor of Hollywood.
A Black Panther’s Guide to Oakland
In a city—and a country—that still struggles with poverty, racial divisions, violence, and addiction, the story of the Black Panther Party urgently needs to be understood.
Finding Chinatown
A conversation with Bonnie Tsui, author of American Chinatown, on the changing dynamics of the urban neighborhoods she explored.
Serving the Movement
Design Action is a different kind of design studio: a worker-owned co-op, with grassroots organizations doing front-line social justice work as their client base.
Facebook and the Late Night Train
In the Bay Area, there’s an online clamor for late-night hours on BART, one that’s gained the attention of the media and BART leadership—but what will the results be?
Crime and Other Mysteries: Donna de la Perriere
A conversation with poet Donna de la Perriere, author of True Crime and Saint Erasure and curator of the Bay Area Poetry Marathon.
“We’re Not the Problem”
Union members and others sympathetic to the cause of organized labor gathered in San Francisco to show their solidarity with workers in Wisconsin.
Urban Lions
Last year, a mountain lion was encountered, then killed, on the streets of Berkeley. Why was it there?
A Conversation With Michael Krasny
The Creosote Journal’s Zach Vasquez talks with Michael Krasny, host of KQED’s morning talk show Forum, about his new book.
Dope Reporter: David Downs
Our conversation with Bay Area reporter David Downs, who writes about the economics, politics, and culture of marijuana.
Bound Up With Bob
Greil Marcus followed Bob Dylan through forty years of genius, self-indulgence, zeitgeist-defining moments and horrible albums.