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(Nighthawks, by Edward Hopper, 1942) In what feels like a lifetime ago, the mid to late 1990s, I used to attend weekly poetry open mics at ...

(Once a Month, photo by Margaret Kalms ) The first writing in the world was numbers, not letters: Hatch marks and eventually cuneiform to k...

Take me to the river, Shakesville. Melissa McEwan's post For The Record has been seconded many places on liberal, woman-respectful blog...

Two days after the anniversary of the White Night Riot , posted about on this blog, the City of San Francisco unveiled a monumental statue o...

Over at the Dykes To Watch Out For thread, a commenter has posted a link to a Coco Wang's comic strips about the devastating 12 May ear...

(Fresh doughnuts at the Daily Dozen Donut Company, Pike Place Market, Seattle; photo by Adriana Grant, printed in Seattle Weekly ) Here...

(Childhood diary entry of Maggie Jochild. Date corresponds to date in Brasil, where we heard of the news.) In December 1967. when I was 12,...