Chloe Malle, the daughter of the celebrated actress Candice Bergen and filmmaker Louis Malle, has been promoted to take the job – ish – of Vogue departing editrix Anna Wintour effective immediately. Malle, who has been at the Condé Nast title since 2011 and serving as editor of Vogue.com since 2023, began her introduction as […]
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Healdsburg, 8.28.25
Today three friends of Dorothy helped a piece of white bread park his beautiful, stranded cherry red vintage Chevy truck elegantly in a spot off the street where it’d conked out. And then, his five straight buddies came out with a can of gas and lots of Mid Dick Energy and he told them about […]
Tar on the Beach
So we went to the beach in Santa Barbara and afterward, I was shocked by the tar on the sole of my feet and my ruined socks. No one mentioned there’s tar on the beach, and I don’t recall seeing any kind of a warning, but I did clock the fugly oil rigs in the […]
Only Way Is the Right of Way!
Behold: A small victory for the little guy. This morning I was rather quite happy — and surprised — to see a new One Way sign installed on Cushman between Sacramento and California here on Nob Hill. All it took was the enlisted assistance of other concerned neighbors and many 311 requests to get this […]
Ruth
I was today years old, when I learned a lot more about artist Ruth Asawa. I knew that she repped the Bay; she was born in Norwalk in 1926 and died in San Francisco 12 years ago. That she inspired and supported Ruth’s Table, a community arts initiative for older adults located in the Mission. […]
Excuse You
There were whole-ass empires south of the border once. Read a book. Read several books.
Amen
A comportarse, Peru! El Papa León XIV ha entrado con fuerza, guiando los ojos de la Tierra hacia el ombligo del mundo, nuestro querido país. (Chiclayo in the house!) Pero Santa María, Madre de Dios. En esta economía, en esta situación? Del caos más obscuro brilla la Luz. Este es el reto de ahora en […]
Say Her Name
Breonna Taylor lived. She existed. And she came to mean something. Not only because Black Lives Matter but because she mattered. Still does. Five years after her death, some people would have you forget about her. But you cannot. You may not. Thanks to artists like Amy Sherald – whose (first) career retrospective, American Sublime, […]
Stop Men. Stop the Madness
The people have spoken. Well, at least, one person has. Stop men. You know the ones. Stop them. Stop the madness. And the world will be as one.
A Postcard Through the Light
A most analog picture taken with a pair of hands, a vintage pair of Warby Parker sunnies, and sunlight by the Bay. Simple, simple in a world of chaos.
King of Cups 