fire lit on medium from the gas stove’s breath. cool air creeps to my legs as the city exhales into the parted window. the room opens out into another san francisco night. exhausted at the troubling phone call that captured the previous evening. a conversation with a father. an exhausted father having a conversation with [...]

<img src=”http://sinkane.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/littledra.jpg”> <a href=”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mana”>ma·na  (män) n. 1. A supernatural force believed to dwell in a person or sacred object. 2. Power; authority. An indigenous word; concept of an impersonal force. It resides in people, animals, and inanimate objects. It has commonly been interpreted as “the stuff of which magic is formed”</a> <img src=”https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik=d29b6e129f&view=att&th=128174e226d868b9&attid=0.8&disp=inline&realattid=f_g87movxr7&zw”> According to [...]

Transplanted from Manila, Philippines underground San Francisco rapper Hopie Spitshard does just that, spits HARD. If you’re a fan of California’s Bay Area music, Hopie doesn’t disappoint; if you’re a fan of old-school underground legend Del the Funky Homosapien, Hopie’s got you; and if you’re a fan of the new West coast movement (U-N-I, Diz [...]