Some personal news, the San Francisco Public Library is the latest subscriber to San Francisco Review of Whatever :))))))) Read it at the main branch soon!
San Francisco Review of Whatever
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In print only ⚫️ Issue Two is here ⚫️ Subscriptions are available at the link below 🌝 Everyone is a critic ⚫️ sfreview.org
We have FOUR tee shirts left from the batch we made for the San Francisco Art Book Fair 🌝
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Please order separately from magazines because they ship in different packaging <3Our first tee, screen printed in a small run in beautiful Santa Rosa, with our beautiful logo by signpainter Caitly...
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Columbia Journalism Review noticed us and we missed it!!!!
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A new generation tries its hand at publishing “the unusual, the difficult, the lengthy.”
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Will we see you next weekend at the SF Art Book Fair? Come find us at Slash, where we’ll be bunking up with our friends from Et al. <3 𝟭𝟭𝟱𝟬 𝟮𝟱𝘁𝗵 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗲𝘁, 𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗕 (𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗻𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝗠𝗶𝗻𝗻𝗲𝘀𝗼𝘁𝗮 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝟮𝟱𝘁𝗵 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗲𝘁𝘀) Thurs., July 23: 6–10p Fri., July 24: 11a–6p Sat., July 25: 11a–6p Sun., July 26: 11a–5p
And finally, in San Francisco Review of Whatever, Issue Three, read our book reviews: San Francisco Review of Books ⚫️
Wren Farrell's review of Butter is SO GOOD.
San Francisco Review of Whatever@sfreviewofwhatever.bsky.social · 9mo agoIssue Three is coming in February! Alemany Flea, a special clown, Halloween II, more good advice for art professionals, two interviews this time actually!, goths!, a casino in the land of the dead, a CLOUD INTERLUDE, lots of book reviews, AND MORE ...
In Issue Three! In “A Face for Poker,” film writer Rebecca Turner plays to unusual advantage at the casino in the land of the dead, Colma, California. Get Issue Three here: sfrw.square.site/product/issu...
In Issue Three! Who is at the art opening? You might recognize some of these characters in the latest comic by Kate Rhoades (@katerhoades.bsky.social) To be slightly triggered by “People at the Art Opening,” purchase Issue Three here: sfrw.square.site
Label boss Josh Cheon and punk polymath Brontez Purnell are in conversation in the new issue of San Francisco Review of Whatever. We discuss growing up goth, San Francisco's dance parties, archiving Patrick Cowley’s music, and more sfrw.square.site
Come to the Issue Three release party tonight from 6–9pm at Latin American Club!!!!
In Issue Three! Margaret McCarthy watched a clown turn a bit part into a big hit. How did Renée Sedliar—with area clown troupe the Thrillride Mechanics—do that? What does a clown need to clown?
Lian Ladia recounts a guided walk that led to a performance in one of San Francisco's beloved stairwells. The occasion was a closing event for an exhibition of paintings by David Wilson and featured musicians Zekarias Musele Thompson and Joel St. Julien. With photographs by Andrew Owen.
In Issue Three! Artist-electrician Rico Duenas shows off his beloved Alemany Flea Market, the city’s primo hunting ground for stuff, in a photo essay + interview conducted by his friend David Gabriner, a citizen-historian and fire captain. Preorder Issue Three: sfrw.square.site/product/issu...
In Issue Three! Beatrice Kilat (@beatrick.bsky.social) is back with good advice about choosing to make art among life's other necessary tasks. Do you have a question to ask Bea? Email us at whoever@sfreview.org 🌝
Do you like to read emails but not to receive them in the email? Here is our latest, with details about Issue Three and its party
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In Issue Three! DJ impresario Josh Cheon (@darkentries.bsky.social) and punk polymath Brontez Purnell discuss growing up goth, San Francisco's dance parties, Dolores Park meet-cutes, archiving Patrick Cowley’s gay porn soundtracks, and maintaining the creative drive deep into their careers.
In Issue Three! Katy Burnett (@gewittrderrosen.bsky.social) executes a close read of Halloween II (2009), connecting the film's violent heaviness to the transitional political era in which it was made and viewed—bloody realism for increasingly bloody times. Michael Myers is drawn by Mitsu Okubo.
Issue Three is coming in February! Alemany Flea, a special clown, Halloween II, more good advice for art professionals, two interviews this time actually!, goths!, a casino in the land of the dead, a CLOUD INTERLUDE, lots of book reviews, AND MORE ...
Now you can read it in the fifth floor reading room at SFPL main library!
Classified ad submissions for Issue Three are due on December 20! Do you want to tell everyone a secret? To share a very short set of instructions? Do you have something or need something? Submit a classified 🌝 airtable.com/appEhjxTGPsR...
This month, we will be donating our profits from sales on Sundays to the Alameda County Community Food Bank. This nation’s present leadership, which we already knew to be venal, are committed to yet more vile acts against our most vulnerable neighbors.
So many people have written wonderfully about Margaret and her incredible influence on the Bay Area art scene. She was a true connector and a generous supporter. As DL Alvarez says, it would take a small committee to fill her shoes. www.kqed.org/arts/1398269...
Margaret Tedesco, Artist and Curator, Was the ‘Spirit of San Francisco’
The widely loved curator and connector of people in the Bay Area art scene died on Oct. 18, 2025.
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Sophia Wang is a mother, a mammal, and a person who knows about bioengineering human breast milk. In “Mama Mammalian” she examines breastfeeding as work, as pleasure, and as a beautiful supply chain of two. Featuring Summoners Cards by Craig Calderwood (@craigcalderwood.bsky.social).
