Miscellaneous
Wilde out of Heaven by Trici Venola
Humorous lists on current events for SF Weekly
Most weeks, SF Weekly asks me to develope a comedic take on a current San Francisco event and put it in list form for their print edition.
See a collection of SF Weekly comedy lists.
- Why we're still takling about Barry Bonds
- How San Francisco will become a stinking-rich city
- How SF residents want to fix the city budget
- Why SF School Board members deserve raises
- David Chiu's Mayoral Platform
- How is Whole Foods adapting to the Haight?
- What questions do people really want Ed Lee to answer?
- Nine solutions to San Francisco's pension crisis
- Will You be my Ultrahip Valentine
- Eight Top Things Twitter Wants from San Francisco
- Diplomacy by the Bay
- Open season on drivers
- Bored of the supervisors
- We're not so resolute
- Top San Francisco headlines of 2010
- Longevity is the best revenge
- SF's local hiring policy impact
- How SF will pick its mayor
- How will SF regulate taco trucks?
- Why instant runoffs suck
- What is Nancy Pelosi's next move?
- Who were the Civil War-era corpses at Fort Mason?
- What will President Obama's new political group accomplish in SF?
- The terrible things tour guides say
- Why cable car drivers snubbed contest
- What else does PG&E want you to pay for?
- What do people do at Burning Man?
- What SF students will learn from new school standards
- How the America's Cup will change our lives
- How "smart meters" will change parking in SF
- Jeff Adachi's punishment
- SF bans water, pets, and ... LOLcats?
- Fast food notion
- How the toll on the Bay Bridge is calculated
- Physical graffiti
- The best democracy money can buy
- Gavin Newsom's budget surprises
- Parks for sale
- Zoned for porn use
- Nightlifers
- How will the Arizona boycott work?
- Why plans for 38-story downtown condos were scrapped
- Man, burning
- How to fix SF's crime lab
- Happy birthday, Community Justice Center
- Prop. 420
- Standardized skools
- The SF subway to nowhere
- Why is Newsom vying for Californa's lieutenant governorship?
- New ways to elect S.F.'s leaders
- Fee for all
- The most important local news headlines of 2009
- Changes we could see under the city’s new bicycle plan
- Trauma storyline predictions
- Gavin Newsom's next steps
- All hail the new police chief
- San Francisco-led innovations worthy of a genius grant
- The San Francisco Chronicle looks on the bright side
- Saving journalism
- Divinity and taxes
- Gavin Newsom's benign betrayal
- Why Supervisor Chris Daly shipped his family off to Fairfield
- The S.F. Botanical Garden's wish list
- Demands the city made on the Renaissance Faire
- Safety on the Bay Bridge
- How the Labor Day bridge closing affects people in the Bay Area
- Gavin Newsom and Bill Clinton - birdgs of a feather
- Compost, or else!
- City meetings open up to mo' comments
- How to sell marriage equity
- Best Bay to Breakers behavior
- Willie Brown's birthday plans
- What are Gavin Newsom's most popular tweets?
- What promises did San Francisco make to keep Levi's in town?
The Woeful-Chalmers Post
Small scale local news is the heart of the profession: without its continuous refreshment, the body politics withers and dies. Still, there's only so much small-town local news one can write before going a little crazy. Much of my early work at Messenger-Post Newspapers involved that kind of reporting, and so I eventually began producing occasional parody newspapers to get the whimsy out of my system at work. Never intended for publication, and shared with an internal audience only, the Woeful-Chalmers Post reports on news in the fictional village of Woeful, the fictional town of Chalmers, and Dweeble County, which contains them both.
See sample issues of the Woeful-Chalmers Post.
Reviews
I've written numerous book and theatre reviews for publications ranging from Playboy.com to the J Weekly of Northern California. A few are included below.
See a porfolio of reviews.
- Marionette Fellation and a Fire-Eating Balloon Elvis -- This is Circus Finelli's Puppet Peepshow
- Quiet Lightning turns in strong performance as series aims to become non-profit group
- The Cat's Pajamas goes out with The Bang
- Billboard Liberation Front Unveils History of Guerilla Art in Unuthorized Stunt at City Lights
- Literary Death Match: Marshmallows, Comedy -- and, Oh Yeah, Literature
- Quiet Lightning gives SF poet Sam Sax 30 minutes to prove himself
- Three Viewings
- Mary Stuart
- Blithe Spirits
- Obscura
- Speech & Debate
- Giant Bones
- Round and Round the Garden
- Andy Warhol: Good for the Jews?
- Master Class
- Den of Thieves
- The Position
- Phedre
- The Sacred Order/Social Order trilogy, by Phillip Reif
- Bondage of the Mind, by R.D. Gold
- You Don't Have to be Wrong for Me to be Right, by Rabbi Brad Hirschfield
- Radio and the Jews, by David and Susan Siegal
- Hell's Cartel, by Diarmuid Jeffreys