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San Francisco Review of Whatever @sfreviewofwhatever.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Some personal news, the San Francisco Public Library is the latest subscriber to San Francisco Review of Whatever :))))))) Read it at the main branch soon!

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San Francisco Review of Whatever @sfreviewofwhatever.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Do you need anything that can be described in twenty words for twenty dollars? Do you want to tell everyone a secret that isn’t illegal? Send us your CLASSIFIED AD for Issue Four. Due mid-August! airtable.com/appEhjxTGPsR...

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San Francisco Review of Whatever @sfreviewofwhatever.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Will we see you next weekend at the SF Art Book Fair? Come find us at Slash, where we’ll be bunking up with our friends from Et al. <3 𝟭𝟭𝟱𝟬 𝟮𝟱𝘁𝗵 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗲𝘁, 𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗕 (𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗻𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝗠𝗶𝗻𝗻𝗲𝘀𝗼𝘁𝗮 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝟮𝟱𝘁𝗵 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗲𝘁𝘀) Thurs., July 23: 6–10p Fri., July 24: 11a–6p Sat., July 25: 11a–6p Sun., July 26: 11a–5p

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San Francisco Review of Whatever @sfreviewofwhatever.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

And finally, in San Francisco Review of Whatever, Issue Three, read our book reviews: San Francisco Review of Books ⚫️

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Marthine Satris @msatris.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Wren Farrell's review of Butter is SO GOOD.

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San Francisco Review of Whatever @sfreviewofwhatever.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

In Issue Three! In “A Face for Poker,” film writer Rebecca Turner plays to unusual advantage at the casino in the land of the dead, Colma, California. Get Issue Three here: sfrw.square.site/product/issu...

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“Once I had the misfortune of facing off against the laughing lady who plays once a month, with a wrist covered completely by those gold Cartier bands. She was so good at poker. Everybody but me knew that. At Lucky Chances, people have photos of their family members tucked inside their wallets.”
REBECCA TURNER A FACE FOR POKER ISSUE THREE

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San Francisco Review of Whatever @sfreviewofwhatever.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

In Issue Three! Who is at the art opening? You might recognize some of these characters in the latest comic by Kate Rhoades (@katerhoades.bsky.social) To be slightly triggered by “People at the Art Opening,” purchase Issue Three here: sfrw.square.site

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Chris 𓅨 @bigjuncofan.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Hell yeah @sfreviewofwhatever.bsky.social

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Dark Entries Records @darkentries.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Label boss Josh Cheon and punk polymath Brontez Purnell are in conversation in the new issue of San Francisco Review of Whatever. We discuss growing up goth, San Francisco's dance parties, archiving Patrick Cowley’s music, and more sfrw.square.site

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San Francisco Review of Whatever @sfreviewofwhatever.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Come to the Issue Three release party tonight from 6–9pm at Latin American Club!!!!

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San Francisco Review of Whatever @sfreviewofwhatever.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

In Issue Three! Margaret McCarthy watched a clown turn a bit part into a big hit. How did Renée Sedliar—with area clown troupe the Thrillride Mechanics—do that? What does a clown need to clown?

Pink and orange background with text overlaid: “You have to practice a lot to be that quick, to respond to the chaos and to shape it. This kind of ensemble humor requires much the same level of attunement and skill: each performer lies in wait, ready for the ball to come their way, and when it lands, to bounce it off again in a new direction.”
Margaret McCarthy ENTER THE MOLE ISSUE THREE

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San Francisco Review of Whatever @sfreviewofwhatever.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Lian Ladia recounts a guided walk that led to a performance in one of San Francisco's beloved stairwells. The occasion was a closing event for an exhibition of paintings by David Wilson and featured musicians Zekarias Musele Thompson and Joel St. Julien. With photographs by Andrew Owen.

Pink background with text overlaid: Then the stairway sharpened into view: steep and narrow, bordered by weeds and poppies that cushioned the descent. Grass pushed through fissures in the concrete, leaves gathered in pockets of shade, broken glass crackled underfoot." Lian Ladia, The City Writes the Score, Issue Three

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San Francisco Review of Whatever @sfreviewofwhatever.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

In Issue Three! Artist-electrician Rico Duenas shows off his beloved Alemany Flea Market, the city’s primo hunting ground for stuff, in a photo essay + interview conducted by his friend David Gabriner, a citizen-historian and fire captain. Preorder Issue Three: sfrw.square.site/product/issu...

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"DG: Do you think that they were searching for things that need a little love? Or do you think they were looking for a deal?
RD: Oh, a combination. They're like, oh, I can get a deal because of this thing and l'll just fix it.
DG: And did they fix it?
RD: No. No. No one ever fixes it."
RICO DUENAS WITH DAVID GABRINER THE FLEA ISSUE THREE

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San Francisco Review of Whatever @sfreviewofwhatever.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

In Issue Three! Beatrice Kilat (@beatrick.bsky.social) is back with good advice about choosing to make art among life's other necessary tasks. Do you have a question to ask Bea? Email us at whoever@sfreview.org 🌝

pink and creamsicle background with text overlaid: "Art careers are famously nonlinear. And you are actually young for a really long time. At any rate, time is only moving forward. At any rate, it feels wonderful to fuck your life up." Beatrice Kilat, Ask Bea, Issue Three

Pink and creamsicle background with text overlaid: "Do you have a question to ask Bea, for possible inclusion in the next Issue? Send it to: whoever@sfreview.org"

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San Francisco Review of Whatever @sfreviewofwhatever.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Do you like to read emails but not to receive them in the email? Here is our latest, with details about Issue Three and its party

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San Francisco Review of Whatever @sfreviewofwhatever.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

In Issue Three! DJ impresario Josh Cheon (@darkentries.bsky.social) and punk polymath Brontez Purnell discuss growing up goth, San Francisco's dance parties, Dolores Park meet-cutes, archiving Patrick Cowley’s gay porn soundtracks, and maintaining the creative drive deep into their careers.

Pink background overlaid with text: "I would take the bus into New York by myself. Sometimes I would drag my girlfriends ... I just wanted someone to dance with and be there. And I would make them dress up, because they weren't goths. They played softball, but l'd be like, here, wear black and put on these fishnets."
JOSH CHEON IN CONVERSATION ISSUE THREE

Pink background overlaid with text: "Familiarity breeds both comfort and contempt but, I don't know, I have seen a fair share of the world at this point and I think that wherever one lives we are all picking our poison. I have decided for better or worse, this place is home."
BRONTEZ PURNELL IN CONVERSATION ISSUE THREE

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San Francisco Review of Whatever @sfreviewofwhatever.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

In Issue Three! Katy Burnett (@gewittrderrosen.bsky.social) executes a close read of Halloween II (2009), connecting the film's violent heaviness to the transitional political era in which it was made and viewed—bloody realism for increasingly bloody times. Michael Myers is drawn by Mitsu Okubo.

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blood
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metaphorical. Instead, it signposted a film's realism, however tasteless. And
blood was also showing up differently in the world."
KATY BURNETT ONE DAY AT A TIME ISSUE THREE

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katy @gewittrderrosen.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

That’s right!

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San Francisco Review of Whatever @sfreviewofwhatever.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Issue Three is coming in February! Alemany Flea, a special clown, Halloween II, more good advice for art professionals, two interviews this time actually!, goths!, a casino in the land of the dead, a CLOUD INTERLUDE, lots of book reviews, AND MORE ...

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Issue Three features writing and art by katy Burnett, Josh Cheon and Brontez Purnell, Rico Duenas with David Gabriner, Beatrice Kilat, Lian Ladia, Margaret McCarthy, Mitsu Okubo, Kate Rhoades, Rebecca Turner, and Alice Wu

Issue Three also features book reviews by Misha Crafts, Wren Farrell, Isabel Pabán Freed, Cole Hersey, Jacob Kahn, Rose Linke, Alexandra Pink, Stephanie Reist, and Michael Walker

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San Francisco Review of Whatever @sfreviewofwhatever.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Now you can read it in the fifth floor reading room at SFPL main library!

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San Francisco Review of Whatever @sfreviewofwhatever.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Classified ad submissions for Issue Three are due on December 20! Do you want to tell everyone a secret? To share a very short set of instructions? Do you have something or need something? Submit a classified 🌝 airtable.com/appEhjxTGPsR...

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East Bay Booksellers @ebbooksellers.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

This month, we will be donating our profits from sales on Sundays to the Alameda County Community Food Bank. This nation’s present leadership, which we already knew to be venal, are committed to yet more vile acts against our most vulnerable neighbors.

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Sarah Hotchkiss @sahotchkiss.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

So many people have written wonderfully about Margaret and her incredible influence on the Bay Area art scene. She was a true connector and a generous supporter. As DL Alvarez says, it would take a small committee to fill her shoes. www.kqed.org/arts/1398269...

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Margaret Tedesco, Artist and Curator, Was the ‘Spirit of San Francisco’

The widely loved curator and connector of people in the Bay Area art scene died on Oct. 18, 2025.

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aka.farm @akafarm.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

late to the game but psyched to dig into @sfreviewofwhatever.bsky.social

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San Francisco Review of Whatever @sfreviewofwhatever.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Sophia Wang is a mother, a mammal, and a person who knows about bioengineering human breast milk. In “Mama Mammalian” she examines breastfeeding as work, as pleasure, and as a beautiful supply chain of two. Featuring Summoners Cards by Craig Calderwood (@craigcalderwood.bsky.social).

Photograph of an artwork by Craig Calderwood: blue and lavender puffy paint overtop a fully-obscured Magic the Gathering card. The top half looks like a crystal, and the bottom half reads "Mommy Milky," "14," and features a drip of sparkly milk.

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“For me, pumping is a fun, weird activity. I’m getting milked! With the milking contraption attached to my nipples, I am the scientist-farmer observing myself as experimental subject or dairy animal, operating a pump to extract one of the most fundamental foods on the planet, so elemental they call it liquid gold.”
SOPHIA WANG, MAMA MAMMALIAN

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aaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

"Make money, they all say. But I like stuff money can't buy. Getting out of my head. Reading, writing, drawing. Imagining that this place is special and mine. I can leave at any time." Rod Roland in @sfreviewofwhatever.bsky.social

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San Francisco Review of Whatever @sfreviewofwhatever.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

In “We Portrait Together,” Anne Walsh (A) reviews IF AN ELSEWHERE (The Burrow), a layered, allegorical collaboration between artist Cybele Lyle (C) and poet Jocelyn Saidenberg (J). Walsh’s idiosyncratic and loving tactics demonstrate that “there are so many ways to write and read.”

Photograph showing a car dashboard with a phone attached to it. On the phone screen is a playlist by Anne Walsh titled IAE. On the dash screen behind it is more information about the track that's playing.

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“A reads IF AN ELSEWHERE (The Burrow) out loud to her phone. She doesn’t rehearse. J’s enjambment is its own inside-outside problem, an ontological straddle, she realizes. A word belonging to those preceding it doesn’t any more, it jumps context, it unbelongs itself, then togethers with the next.”
ANNE WALSH, WE PORTRAIT TOGETHER

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San Francisco Review of Whatever @sfreviewofwhatever.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

In “The Magic Is Here, I Saw It,” poet Christina Svenson delivers an efflorescent review of Soft Core, the novel by performer and local hero, Brittany Newell. To read SAN FRANCISCO REVIEW OF THREE BOOKS SO FAR, order Issue Two here: sfrw.square.site/product/issu...

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“Soft Core is devotional in its attention to the Bay Area’s nooks and crannies, turning them over and over like beads on a rosary. In this process, San Francisco becomes a place for looking and never finding, because there was never an object to discover in the first place.”
CHRISTINA SVENSON
THE MAGIC IS HERE, I SAW IT

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Josh Wallaert @jwlrt.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

"The energy of San Francisco is always directed outward, never to return. It would be too much for a city to keep." ❤️ Rod Roland's review (history, memoir) of skateboarding in the new @sfreviewofwhatever.bsky.social

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San Francisco Review of Whatever @sfreviewofwhatever.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

“I Feel Safe in San Francisco” is a delicate, ranging, topographic memoir by skateboarder-poet Rod Roland, featuring photography by Reggie Guerrero (@meadowy.bsky.social) and a new poem by Tenaya Nasser-Frederick and Rod Roland.

Street scene: An empty sidewalk with a pink vertical bollard, a building with two doors behind it, and black and peach checkerboard tiling.

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I don’t think skateboarding is a cure for anything. It’s more a do or don’t thing. I feel self-conscious writing about it instead of doing it. That’s just how it’s done. If you aren’t trying, then you’re not skating.
I’m not so worried about being judged by other fifty-year-old skateboarders reading this. Fuck you. No, I’m kidding. But seriously, why don’t you try and write a review of San Francisco and skateboarding.
Rod Roland, I Feel Safe in San Francisco

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San Francisco Review of Whatever @sfreviewofwhatever.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

SFRW’s resident Ad Reinhardt (if he were more Ohioan), Kate Rhoades (@katerhoades.bsky.social) made another cartoon about the kinds of objects you might encounter in an art gallery. To read SAN FRANCISCO REVIEW OF ART, order Issue Two here: sfrw.square.site/product/issu...

A part of a larger cartoon. There’s a bull in a suit holding a beverage and saying “Lars, the show is a hit! Why so grouchy?” And an unseen Lars replies “Nobody gets it, man!”

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San Francisco Review of Whatever @sfreviewofwhatever.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

SFGATE has the Issue Two party report! www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...

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A new San Francisco magazine about whatever
Two weeks ago, 100 literary-minded San Franciscans gathered in a stark all-white room in the Mission to hear about ... whatever.

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San Francisco Review of Whatever @sfreviewofwhatever.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

By way of A Streetcar Named Desire and The Simpsons, Beatrice Kilat (@beatrick.bsky.social) weighs the risks and chances for love in her debut column: “Ask Bea.” She also considers the chihuahua. To read SOME GOOD ADVICE, order Issue Two here: sfrw.square.site/product/issu...

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Williams kept waiting to wake up feeling different and instead kept waking up as himself. In his wigged-out state, he drank and ate too much, behaved poorly, leaned into cynicism, withdrew from friends and the world at large.
Taunted by the now frictionless experience of his success, he left his home and found friction out in the world. You know, the joys and bothers and ‘stuff’ that happens when we let other people into our lives. Which is what reminded me of you.
Beatrice Kilat, Ask Bea

Do you need help? Ask Bea. Bea’s areas of expertise (ongoing): dogs money life, death closet space ceramics utensils kitchens time management having a drink putting it down want vs. need upkeep (general)
Email: whoever@sfreview.org Subject line: Please Advise

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San Francisco Review of Whatever @sfreviewofwhatever.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

In “Escolar: Creation of Space,” Cole Hersey visits an art gallery in a shipping container in the suburbs. Our penchant for shipping container topics carries on. To read SAN FRANCISCO REVIEW OF LAND USE, order Issue Two here: sfrw.square.site/product/issu...

Photograph of a yard: in the foreground is a cactus, behind that, a shed and a house, and behind that, a green shipping container with the letter S visible.

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A sprawling and quiet vision of the American Dream is being built here. In other words, it’s the suburbs—a place built for single families, not communities. And yet, heading deeper into the neighborhood, up the street on the left, with no fence or barrier to obstruct one’s view, there is Escolar: a garden, a home, and a white-walled gallery inside an old green shipping container.
Cole Hersey, Escolar: Creation of Space

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Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 08/09/2025

"Generally I find it easy to have an opinion than not. They come unbidden, like all the rest of the senses." Our comrades at @sfreviewofwhatever.bsky.social, we at ORB see you:

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San Francisco Review of Whatever @sfreviewofwhatever.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

As of later today when I get my act over to the East Bay, SFRW Issue Two will be in stock at: Black Bird Bookstore and Cafe, Et al. books, Green Apple on the Park, Park Life, Scenic Routes Community Bicycle Center, East Bay Booksellers, Pegasus Books (downtown Berkeley), and Bathers Library

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San Francisco Review of Whatever @sfreviewofwhatever.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Robert Glück is a poet, essayist, and novelist who co-founded the New Narrative movement. Emily Harter is a painter, printmaker, and sometimes-tattooist whose images are “ruled by cartoon logic.” Forget all that because in Issue Two they’re in conversation about ceramics.

Photo of a black, blue, and white ceramic vessel with the image of a face on it and the word GENIE

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Bob: “I usually sketch a piece before I start. As John Ashbury said, when asked if he discards a lot, I’m lazy and ambitious. I usually know from the beginning what I’m after. In any medium, my big question is, can I actually do this? Do I know enough, do I have enough experience?” ROBERT GLÜCK AND EMILY HARTER IN CONVERSATION

Photo of a porcelain sculpture of a dog humping a log

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Emily: “Studying art from the past helps organize my thoughts and feelings about the unfolding moment, which, when one is reading the news, seems to be characterized by greed, cruelty, and carelessness. Often, my inner response to these events is to try to imagine a thought process different from my own. What might motivate someone to, say, buy a Tesla Cybertruck ...” ROBERT GLÜCK AND EMILY HARTER IN CONVERSATION

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San Francisco Review of Whatever @sfreviewofwhatever.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

In “Vaillancourt Fountain,” skateboarder and art historian Ted Barrow situates everyone’s favorite fountain, currently under threat of redevelopment, on the past and future Embarcadero. To read SAN FRANCISCO REVIEW OF A FOUNTAIN, order Issue Two here: sfrw.square.site/product/issu...

Image from around 1970 of the fountain flowing.

Tomato pink background with black outlined rectangles and black and blue text within: In skate videos and magazines of the late eighties and early nineties, the fountain looked otherworldly—an enigmatic relic from some radical civilization. That is what it was! What city but San Francisco could have built something so bold? Ted Barrow, Vaillancourt Fountain

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San Francisco Review of Whatever @sfreviewofwhatever.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Thanks for being there! More photos, more details about issue two, and magazines in the mail 🔜

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San Francisco Review of Whatever @sfreviewofwhatever.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

SAN FRANCISCO REVIEW OF WHATEVER ISSUE TWO RELEASE PARTY REMINDER! TOMORROW, Thursday, August 28, at 6 p.m. onward, at Et al., 2831A Mission Street. There will be readings with an element of chance! And pizza and beers, and whatever else turns up. See you tomorrow! Looking forward. xx

SFRW • Issue Two Release Party • Thursday, August 28 at Et al.
• Readings with an element of chance
Featuring Sophia Wang Michael Walker • Ted Barrow
• Amanda Guest • Craig Calderwood • Anne Walsh
Rose Linke • Christina Svenson • Rod Roland

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a wizard @towerwizard.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

As dawn breaks, a magazine appears in the wizard's mailbox.

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