Writing
Ideas I can't
stop thinking
about.
I write a curated guide to what's worth doing in San Francisco's arts scene, roughly every ten days. The format is simple: here's what's happening, and here's why I actually care about it. I've found that the "why I care" part is where things get interesting.
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San Francisco Has [No] Culture
A newsletter and event series I founded to surface what's actually worth doing in the Bay Area arts scene. Each edition starts with something personal, ends with a calendar, and somewhere in the middle makes the case that this city has more going on than it gets credit for.
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The argument that wouldn't leave me alone.
San Francisco has a reputation problem when it comes to culture. The narrative is that it's a tech city, transient and unserious, without the infrastructure of New York or LA. I think that's wrong, and more than that, I think it becomes self-fulfilling when people believe it.
So I started writing about what's actually here. The Filipinx-owned tattoo shop doing a gallery show. The de Young's first large-scale manga exhibition. The quilt artists memorializing words the government erased. My job is to do the work of finding it so that all you have to do is add it to your calendar.
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The
newsletter.
Newsletter
San Francisco Has [No] Culture
A curated guide to what's worth doing in San Francisco's arts scene, published roughly every ten days. Each edition starts with something personal, ends with a calendar, and makes the case that this city has more going on than it gets credit for.
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Themes
The territory
I keep returning to.
01
What's actually happening in SF
Gallery openings, film screenings, live performances, book tours, art fairs. Curated for people who want to show up, not just scroll past.
02
Why I care
Every recommendation comes with context. Who made it, why it matters, what's at stake. The case for paying attention.
03
Community and the people building it
The galleries, collectives, nonprofits, and scrappy organizers making the city's creative life possible.
04
Art that argues something
Work that's in conversation with the world it was made in. Politics, identity, history, resistance, joy.
05
The personal digression
Manga arbitrage in Texas, sneaking into concerts, the jacket from iMasala. The thing that happened before we get to the calendar.
06
Cross-pollination
Fashion and identity. Technology and computation. Tattooing as fine art. The interesting things that happen when disciplines bump into each other.