Home Magazine Issue 5 of The San Franciscan $10.00 Issue 5 of The San Franciscan (Print) Magazine Details: Includes work from 29 talented creatives based in and around the Bay Area Features fiction, poetry, art, cartoons, photography, nonfiction, profiles, personal essays, interviews, and even a locally-themed crossword Perfect-bind book with matte cover Limited edition print […]
Photograph courtesy of Maps for Good and Point Blue Conservation Science As we approach the Farallones, the distant islands grow incrementally larger, and then, all at once, they are looming. Western gulls soar overhead, their cries carrying over the surf. Sugarloaf, the towering gray-brown rock ahead, is covered in pelicans and cormorants. As we enter […]
Photograph by Jonathan Paragas Jonathan Paragas is a Bay Area street photographer. His Youtube Channel, kingjvpes, focuses on the artistry and technique behind film photography. I sat down with Jonathan in Benicia, CA to discuss street photography, his relationship to the Bay Area, and his mission to keep film alive. Below is an edited excerpt […]
Photograph by Annabelle Port, courtesy of Maw Shein Win El Cerrito-based poet Maw Shein Win recently released her second full-length collection of poetry. Storage Unit for the Spirit House (Omnidawn 2020) is a study of containers—storage units, human bodies, prisons, photographs—the ungainly, sometimes organic boxes in which our lives are stored. We sat down with […]
Illustration by Amanda Legge San Francisco is a city rich with natural beauty, significant history, and LIES. Sure, everyone likes to have a few “fun facts” up their sleeve, but if you believe everything you hear, it’s only a matter of time before you’re at a work dinner telling your boss’s husband about how if […]
Home Magazine Issue 3 of The San Franciscan [Sold Out] $10.00 Issue 3 of The San Franciscan (Print) [Sold Out] Magazine Details: Includes work from 27 talented creatives based in the Bay Area Features fiction, poetry, art, cartoons, photography, and nonfiction articles, profiles, personal essays, interviews, and even a locally-themed crossword Perfect-bind book with matte […]
Trips to the diner for breakfast with her mother were a cherished pastime for author Sophie Navarro. Illustration by Nathaniel J. Bice. Even before the pandemic, old-school diners in San Francisco were struggling to stay in business. Howard’s Cafe (est. 1996), a breakfast diner in the Inner Sunset distinguished by its U-shaped bar surrounded by […]
Illustration by Karen Chan. All I can hear as I’m typing is the clacking of my fingers on the mechanical keyboard you gave me for Hanukkah. It’s the last gift I have from you, unless we count B, but I consider her an inheritance. The keyboard is so loud that I can’t even hear myself […]
For close to a half century, Kem Lee photographed daily life in San Francisco’s Chinatown. His archive of images, housed at UC Berkeley’s Ethnic Studies Library, contains more than 200,000 photos. (Image courtesy of the Kem Lee estate/UC Berkeley). A few years back, I drove over to Berkeley in search of a single photograph. If […]
San Francisco’s cable cars are one of the only moving National Historic Landmarks. The system’s inner workings are on view at the Cable Car Museum. Illustration by Dan Bransfield. The Cable Car Museum is a free museum located at the corner of Mason and Washington Streets in San Francisco’s Nob Hill. The building, also referred […]
Chambers models for a promotional photo for Behind the Green Door, the 1972 film that made her a star. On the southeast corner of O’Farrell and Polk Streets in the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco sits a now-vacant building that once housed, as Hunter S. Thompson noted, “the Carnegie Hall of public sex in America.” […]
Photograph by Gene X. Hwang Cooped up in my small apartment, imagining what I’d otherwise be doing on a Friday night in August, I return over and over to the same memory: my first visit to the Church of 8 Wheels roller rink. It was a crisp Saturday night in February. I had moved to […]
In her new novel On the Rooftop, Sexton paints a personal and vivid portrait of family life set against the backdrop of the 1950s Fillmore District. Photograph by Yiqian Barba. The September heat wave was in full force when author Margaret Wilkerson Sexton and I opted to chat in the indoor comfort of “Café Zoom.” […]
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