15 May 2025
An eatery and pub on Brushfield Street, Spitalfieds London, England. Photo: Robert Gumpert 22 April 2024
Sleeping rough in a doorway along 9th Street in San Francisco, California. This month San Francisco’s newish mayor, and the governor of California have ordered an essentially no tolerance enforcement policy on sleeping on the streets. Photo: Robert Gumpert 12 March 2024
An ad for the robot taxi company, Waymo, in San Francisco touting that there is no driver to see what you are getting up to in the backseat, and that you should have no worries about there being no driver. Of course you are on the cabin camera, but hey… Photo: Robert Gumpert 12 February 2025
An art auction ad for art for our times. May 2025
May 1st demonstration in San Francisco Civic Center. Photo: Robert Gumpert
The Reads
As the $476 million Dodgers face the $69 million Marlins, MLB’s payroll gap has never been wider | Andy McCullough/The Athletic
Why do we love restaurants? One answer may lie in a small house at the outer edge of New Orleans | Words Michael Oates Palmer - Photos Cedric Angeles/The Bitter Southner
When the way ahead isn’t clear, the solution, sometimes, is to eat. | Words: Sarah Golibart Gorman - Illustrations Ellie Skrzat/The Bitter Southerner
Your Brother’s Blood | Words Tom Lee, Photos Megan Ledbetter - The Bitter Southerner
From viral shrimp messiahs to fake news popes, AI is warping how we see the world — and what we believe Amaris Castillo/Poynter
Photography; Art; Culture
Roaring: Art, Fashion, and the Automobile in France, 1918-1939 | St. Louis Art Museum
Chris Hunt’s testament to community, migration and memory | Dalia Al-Dujaili/BJP
Syria Faces Its Past and Future | Jon Lee Anderson; Photos: Moises Saman (Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography)/New Yorker
In 2014, photographer Chris Donovan began documenting his hometown of Saint John, New Brunswick, on Canada’s east coast. The photographs show the vibrant neighborhoods and their inhabitants living in the shadows of polluted industrial sites. Books
How Artist Chakaia Booker Turns Car Tires Into Transcendence | NYT art critic Aruna D’Souza/National Gallery of Art
Ceremony and the conclave: tender images capturing the farewell of Pope Francis | Benjamin Eagle - BJP
Aisha | Jörg M. Colberg/Conscientious
3D printed salmon, pasta and dessert: inside the future of food with software-made meals | Matthew Burgos/Designboom
Podcasts
Textile Waste and the Catastrophe at Kantamanto | Haptic & Hue
How Workers in Ancient Egypt and Rome Organized Strikes | Hyperallergic
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