01 April - 07 April 2024
Taco truck in the parking lot of a convenience store on the corner of Monterey Blvd and Forester. San Francisco, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 31 March 2024
Photography
NY Times: An Idyll on the Shores of a Toxic Lake | text by Jaime Lowe, photographs by Nicholas Albrecht
NY Times Magazine: What to Know About Life-Saving ECPR | by Helen Ouyang - Photos Mark Peterson
Mikko Takkunen: Hong Kong (selected works)
Vann Thomas Powell: On Contentious Ground
Franck Doussot: El Dorado, 2010-Present. And more
Reading The Pictures: Israeli Military in Gaza: Are You Going to Believe Us, Or Your Own Eyes? | by Michael Shaw
Lenscratch: Shinichiro Nagasawa: The Bonin Islanders | by Aline Smithson
Shinichiro Nagasawa: The Bonin Islanders
Lens Culture: Alastair Philip Wiper -Unintended Beauty | by Marigold Warner
The Guardian: Chris Killip and Graham Smith - Boom and bust in the industrial north-east
Melissa Grace Kreider: “I will bite the hand that feeds” and “Remnants”
Fraction: Future Cities by Noah Addis
Huck: Inside a Texan neighbourhood Mexican wrestling club | text by Isaac Muk, photography by Tom “TBow” Bowden
NY Times: Welcoming Underexposed Black Photographers Into the Canon | by Arthur Lubow
CNN: Anja Niedringhaus: Her photos captured the humanity of the Afghan people amid war | Photographs by Anja Niedringhaus/AP Story by Kyle Almond, CNN
Charles-Frédérick Ouellet: Le Naufrage
Ebrahim Noroozi: Mourners
Ninu Nina: No More Gentlemen’s Agreements - interview with Osheen Harruthoonyan
Then There Was Us: "White Fence Box", Graciela Iturbide's powerful photographs of a Los Angeles street gang
The New Yorker: Josef Koudelka Could Locate Beauty Anywhere | by Nicholas Dawidoff
Culture, Art and Design
Building started in 1939 by Metlife with the first tenants moving in 1944. Metlife owned and carefully maintained the property until early 1970s, when it sold it to Leona Helmsley and deteriorate. There were a succession of owners and management companies beginning in the late 1990s. The commercial areas of the development were sold off to investors, and other parts sold to the California State University system for San Francisco State University. As of 2008, 116 of the original 150 acres (0.61 km2) are owned and maintained by a single investor, who purchased the property for $687 million and has committed $110 million in upgrades. During the early 2000s (decade) the property was marketed as The Villas Parkmerced, however, as of 2009, signage and advertisements have returned to the original Parkmerced name. (From Wikipedia) Photo Robert Gumpert 03 April 2024
Washington Post: The common lesson from the MSNBC uproar and Trump’s Bible business | by E.J. Dionne Jr.
LA Times: The Hawaiian steel guitar changed American music. Can one man keep that tradition alive? | by Stephanie Yang
Creative Boom: F37 designs a typeface that embodies the 'charm and idiosyncrasy' of industrial Manchester | by Abbey Bamford
McSweeney’s: What to Say When Your Family Opens Your Uncle’s Casket During His Wake and Finds It Empty | by Tyler Gooch
The Guardian: The Republican party has become a full-fledged anti-sex movement | by Rebecca Solnit
Huck: We Must Shut Off the war Machine’s Influence From Out Arts and Culture | by Samuel Sweek
Hyperallergic: As Space Becomes Scarce, Artists Take Over an Abandoned LA Structure | by Angella d'Avignon
It’s Nice That: Matty Matheson’s new packaging is not retro, it’s 1930s can core | by Liz Gorny
Five Things I Saw & Heard This Week: At the Edge of Town / A Song for Richard Manuel | by Martin Colyer
Creative Boom: Sam Rodriguez's graffiti-inspired portraits depict people in their unseen entirety | by Dom Carter
Design Boom: Madeiguincho repurposes cargo container as tiny house with sunken roof terrace | by Lea Zeitoun
Do The M@th: Interview with Albert “Tootie” Heath | by Ethan Iverson
thebluemoment.com: The Necks at Cafe Too | by Richard Williams
NY Times: Women Who Made Art in Japanese Internment Camps Are Getting Their Due | by Rebecca Carballo
Books
AnOther: Rahim Fortune’s New Book Is a Poetic Portrait of Black Southern Identity | by Elodie Saint-Louis
Stanley/Baker: Karen Knorr - Country Life
Podcast
The Moth: Take Me Out To The Ballgame
Letter from an American: Heather Cox Richardson March 30, 2024
10fps: Episode 100: Eugene Richards (Documentary Photography)
Headbanging Headlines:
Yahoo Finance: Jeff Bezos Buys $90 Million Florida Mansion To Live In While His Other Newly Purchased $147 Million Homes Are 'Demolished' For A Mega Mansion
Washington Post: “God is sending America strong signs to tell us to repent. Earthquakes and eclipses and many more things to come. I pray that our country listens.” — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on X.
Other Stuff
Stairs Photo Robert Gumpert 01 April 2024
NY Times: A Tantalizing ‘Hint’ That Astronomers Got Dark Energy All Wrong | by Dennis Overbye
Nautilus: The End of the Dark Universe? | by Sabine Hossenfelder
Washington Post: Google’s AI-‘supercharged’ Search Generative Experience, or SGE, sometimes makes up facts, misinterprets questions and picks low-quality sources — even after nearly 11 months of public testing. | by Geoffrey A. Fowler
Convergence: Conflict Could Upend DSA’s Big Tent—or Steady It | by William Lawrence
Aeon: Capitalism and (under)development in the American South | by Keri Leigh Merritt - edited by Sam Haselby
El País: Gisela Gaytán, candidate for mayor of violence-plagued town in Mexico, is shot dead | by Beatriz Guillén
World Central Kitchen: 7 WCK team members killed in Gaza
Rolling Stone: José Andrés Mourns World Central Kitchen's Israeli Airstrike Victims | by Larisha Paul, Ryan Bort
The Guardian: The Guardian view on the IDF’s killing of aid workers: a grim milestone in Gaza
Quartz: Google might charge for AI-powered search | by Britney Nguyen
+972 Magazine: ‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza | by Yuval Abraham
Nautilus: Maritime Archaeologist David Gibbins on 12 Shipwrecks that Made History | by David Gibbons
Labor
Washington Post: Ready or not, self-driving semi-trucks are coming to America’s highways | by Trisha Thadani
The Nation: LA’s Forgotten Strike - Hotel workers have been demanding fair wages and benefits for months—and owners are starting to cave. | by Sasha Abramsky
Labor Notes: Our Class Has No Borders: Why the UAW Is Standing Up with Mexican Auto Workers | by Brandon Mancilla
Nautilus: The Plight of Japan’s Ama Divers | by Sofia Quaglia
Social Issues - elections 2024
Empty storefront laundromat on 18th Street between Missouri and Texas. San Francisco, California Photo Robert Gumpert 02 April 2024
Washington Post: America is divided over major efforts to rewrite child labor laws | by Lauren Kaori Gurley
LA Times: Trump could gut abortion access in California if elected. Here's how | by Anita Chabria
Letter from an American: Heather Cox Richardson April 3, 2024
MSNBC: Michigan police officers' union should be ashamed of endorsing Trump | by Frank Figliuzzi
Social Issues
21st Avenue near Taraval Street in the Sunset District, San Francisco, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 30 April 2024
NY Times: Woman Who Was Charged With Murder After Abortion Sues Texas Prosecutor | by Anna Betts
NY Times Magazine: Javier Milei Is a New Prophet of Apocalyptic Capitalism | by David Wallace-Wells
Washington Post: The underwater hunt for the lost ship of an American slave trafficker | by Terrence McCoy and Photos by Rafael Vilela
LA Times: Newsom has approved three California prison closures but resists pressure to shutter more | by Anabel Sosa
The Guardian: Just 57 companies linked to 80% of greenhouse gas emissions since 2016 | by Jonathan Watts
Dezeen: Mark Foster Gage designs 450-metre-long bridge hotel at Neom | by Tom Ravenscroft
Print: News from a Changing Planet: The Great Lakes Great Thaw } by Tatiana Schlossberg
Division Street
Vacant lot at 601 5th Street. Once the site of an indoor racket and tennis courts, the structures were demolished and planning permits issues. And then they were canceled because the application had exceeded the stated and extended time period. And equally sized lot sits vacant across the street. San Francisco, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 16 February 2024
NY Times: Behind 94 Acts of Shocking Violence, Years of Glaring Mistakes | by Amy Julia Harris and Jan RansomPhotographs by José A. Alvarado Jr.
Dezeen: Montgomery County has found a way to reinvigorate public housing in America | by Ben Dreith
Mission Local: On Potrero Hill, squatters get scammed. So do landlords - months of complaints against the private management firm | Eleni Balakrishnan
SF Chronicle: Why one of S.F.’s biggest housing projects could shrink by hundreds of affordable apartments | by Roland Li
SF Chronicle: S.F. homeless housing nonprofit blasted for misusing taxpayer funds | by Maggie Angst, St. John Barned-Smith
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