Ode to San Francisco

There is shelter in place wall space everywhere. Much of SF is still boarded up, and wheat-pasters have hit the streets and taken over, it’s fucking fantastic. There is art everywhere. My SF memories feature the Lakeview neighborhood, a historic F Market train, the Center for Sex & Culture and their founders Dr. Carol Queen…

FEVER: Documenting the Human Sexual Experience

The Center for Sex and Culture Gallery is pleased to present FEVER: Documenting the Human Sexual Experience – a group photography exhibition of emerging and established national and local artists featuring the erotic and transgressive documentation of human sexuality. Participating artists include:  Aeric Meredith-Goujon,  Blair Conner,  Chas Ray Krider,  Cheyne Truitt,  Chip Willis,  Christopher Cooper…

Cult Classic Valentine and Barry Gifford

On Valentine’s Day at 2PM, the South San Francisco Public library is showing a screening of Wild at Heart.                A great V-Day date movie.  As part of Love in the Library month, and in anticipation of Barry Gifford’s Author Talk, taking place Tuesday, February 26 at 6:30 p.m.,we are…

The Sexy Librarian’s Big Book of Erotica: Rose Caraway

I am extremely pleased to work at a library willing to try a little different programming! The South San Francisco Public Library is celebrating “Love in the Library” month! We have an array of traditional Valentine themed programs such as, Blind Date with a Book, and a Valentine Card Craft. However, we also have a few non-traditional programs…

Patron Portraits: my most photographed

I have been going through my thousands of photos, and realize just how many shots I have of this SF library patron. He is my favorite, I call him Mediation Man.

CSC’s Safer Sex Poster Exhibition Catalog

A note from the Center for Sex and Culture’s Gallery Curator, Dorian Katz. I’m happy to say that we have launched the Kickstarter campaign for the first catalog to be published by the Center for Sex and Culture Gallery. We have chosen a very important body of work for this first effort: our collection of safer…

The CSC Library Crew featured on SF Zine!

The fine folk at the San Francisco Zine Fest wrote a lovely piece about the work the CSC Library is doing with our Zine project– the CSC Zineography and catalog. The CSC Staff holds their favorite zines (from left to right): Tess McCarthy with “Frighten the Horses,” Betsy Foley with “Deviant- The comic book journal of Strange…

An Open Letter from Henry Miller Memorial Library Big Sur, California

Help Save the Henry Miller Memorial Library – taken directly from the Henry Miller Memorial Library website. Dear Friend of the Henry Miller Memorial Library, This is a plea for help. We need to upgrade our facilities to create a sustainable Library and it’ll cost much more than we have in our savings. We need to raise…

Library at Occupy the Farm

Library at Occupy the Farm takebackthetract.com occupythefarm.com Excerpt from Take This Book: The People’s Library at Occupy Wall Street rhizome.org/editorial/2011/dec/19/take-book/ Images by Steve Rhodes