Grizzly Peak shows Mount Diablo in the distance: the last time they think a grizzly killed a man was 1865, Strawberry Canyon. This was also the last reported sighting. The dregs of that canyon’s creek slices Berkeley campus. They killed the biggest ever found in California in Valley Center earlier […]
So The Pretty Roommate Dies | Ben Philippe
It happens. People die and their rent checks bounce. Not because their mortal records, checking accounts and all, are suddenly stricken from existence the moment the voltage overwhelms their hearts, but because they’re generally sloppy with money and that last check was always going to bounce anyway. Not to mention […]
The Takes | Heather Keton
2016, 48″ x 48″, oil on canvas. Heather Keton has been painting since childhood, when she was gifted a class in landscape oil painting and realized that combining birch trees and fireworks makes people uncomfortable. She attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she focused on writing, […]
The Unfinished Eye | Stephen Kaplin
The Unfinished Eye Written and designed by STEPHEN KAPLIN, Based on artwork and texts by EVE KAPLIN. First performed at Arts at St. Ann’s, Brooklyn, 1998. Direction and Puppet Design: STEPHEN KAPLIN Lighting, Sets and Sound: BILL BRADFORD Costumes: JANE CATHERINE SHAW Stage consists of two screens. Large Rear Projection […]
Heartsease | Peter Longofono
The chin is civil. Boring hair worms through a chuck, or doesn’t. Ingrown whiskers wrestle. The worth of a weevil depends. Inured evil, as an enterprise, shills. Even the upright magistrate curves through a telescope, which is his beaten wife. Indoors his tight glands, a boy’s hands cup an oblong […]
Lean Away
Review: ‘After Birth’ by Elisa Albert. In 2013, there were murmurs of a new feminist manifesto emboldening women across the nation, reviving a stalled second-wave feminism. You might have heard it whispered by the women leaving book club meetings, heard it from the lips of Sheryl Sandberg herself, heard it […]