Pandemic or no pandemic, the culture’s gonna do what the culture’s gonna do – good, bad, and fugly. That much is true. But where is the cultural responsibility in America in 2020? Where is the collective that is humanity on Earth at this point in time? Winter was, spring is barely gonna be. Urgh, and, some people, […]
Meanwhile, in the world, all of our lives have changed. Including Eliza Hittman’s. The writer-director of Beach Rats was coming into spring H-O-T-hot with Never Rarely Sometimes Always, an eagerly anticipated eye-opener of a film that was celebrated with a Dramatic Special Jury Prize at January’s Sundance Film Festival – on account of its cinematic neorealism and deftly […]
Y mueve la cabeza también. Mueva la cabeza, especialmente en estas épocas de pandemia, o se pone tiesa. Y no te hagas mala sangre cuando veas que hay gente en la calle corriendo o caminando con el perro porque realmente no vale la pena; no los conoces y no sabes cuál será su historia. Estamos viviendo […]
“Why are we still listening to the president?” And just like that, with that succinct shutdown that doubled as call to think global but act local, Madam Mayor London Breed won yesterday’s effort by any elected official anywhere, IMHO, to drive the City of San Francisco inside and lead us and our communities across the […]
It’s the end of the world as we know it or, at least, it kinda feels like it, sometimes, during this season of self-isolation, during this pandemic moment. So, since we are having to stay in, let’s also go in within ourselves, and let’s keep on doing the 🎧➡️social-distancing thing right, to the Pitbull-d tune […]
We live in a beautiful world, so, if everything and everyone is connected on this big, beautiful Earth that we are lucky to be borrowing, then we must consider whether this novel coronavirus, a.k.a. COVID-19, didn’t simply improve on its known predecessors to adapt to a more hostile environment. I mean, we got melting poles…a […]
Levi’s is going live at 5:01, California time, this afternoon. The San Francisco-based company is launching 5:01 Live today, in response to the global COVID-19 pandemic. I’m not at liberty to say who’s lined up to perform this week, but when you see them, you just might drop it like it’s hot with excitement. You might call […]
“Hello,” “Please,” and “Thanks.” People of the world, these are the three little words ya gotta remember when you go to a grocery store, always and forever, but especially during this pandemic. Look, I know what I’m talking about when I gripe about the casual cultural classism and racism that surprisingly permeates San Francisco, or the […]
A day later, California Gov. Gavin Newsom echoed the shelter-in-place ordinance that Madam Mayor London Breed announced in San Francisco last Monday, but for the entire Golden State and its 40 million residents. Food providers (farmers’ markets, grocery stores, and the restaurants that can manage it) may stay open. Ditto gas stations, pharmacies, and food […]
Dearly beloved, Good humor, good will, and some good, fun music will help us carry on this COVID-19 season. Think you need some medicine? Then, this is the Pandemi❌ you need right now. Just be brave, 🎧➡️come alive, and keep it together. We’ve still got a lot of fight left in us. ’Cause we’re in this together. One 🌎, […]
King of Cups 