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Last Night at the Lusty: Remembering San Francisco’s First Unionized Strip Club is a fascinating expose of North Beach’s most notorious haunt. Filled with shocking twists and urban legends (but are they?), Janelle Blarg’s most recent comic also highlights the risks, the racism, and the management’s reluctance to address many of the employee’s workplace concerns. […]
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My first encounter with the Tape Op universe happened when I picked up a magazine that was laying around Mike Pack’s studio, Revolution Sounds, in Chattanooga, TN. This was twenty-plus years ago. Listening to LANDLORD track “More Trouble” on Beneath the Wheel, and being frustrated that they didn’t do the ending phrase twice. I was […]
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Risograph print in blue, white, and red. The text is pretty small, but it probably had to be in order to fit an entire Bildungsroman inside its pages. Simone Bailey is a crazy-good artist from the San Francisco Bay Area, who, in her wide-range exploration of the world, uses her genius to grasp the intangible […]
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