Matt's Writing

In anticipation of the January 1, 2013 publication of the photobook  Bay Area Underground , I'll be running excerpts of news coverage to complement the photos in the book. The book covers the major cultural events and social movements in the Bay Area over the past five years, and no single issue was as polarizing in Oakland as the shooting of unarmed Oscar Grant III by a BART police officer on New Year's Day 2009. Below is a transcript of a news dispatch by Joe Sciarrillo about the January 30 and February 28, 2009 marches in honor of Oscar Grant. This report originally aired on the DJ Matt Werner show on Fresh Air: The Alternative on  March 3, 2009  ( right click to download  the podcast and skip to 44:15 to hear this report). January 30, 2009 Oscar Grant protest. Photo by Joe Sciarrillo On New Year’s Day 2009, a 22-year-old African American man named Oscar Grant was fatally shot by a police officer of the San Francisco Bay Area train service...

I interviewed K.Flay for Rumpus Radio at http://therumpus.net Topics discussed by San Francisco hip hop artist K.Flay and Rumpus Radio host Matt Werner include MC Lars, K.Flay’s Mashed Potatoes Mix Tape, K.Flay’s songs, Guinevere, No Ignorance (remix of Paramore’s Ignorance), K.Flay staying straight-edge after her father’s passing, and her Do-It-Yourself ethic in music production. The podcast also features an exclusive acoustic version of Bye, Bye Illinois recorded by Rumpus Radio. A pun battle breaks out toward the end of the interview between K.Flay and the International Pun Champion, Joe Sabia . Pun battle excerpt: What do you call it when Sara Palin gets high? Baked Alaska. For more on: K.Flay, visit http://kflay.com . And for more on Matt Werner’s podcasts, visit http://mattswriting.com . Voice overs are by Ben Felsing. Interview photo by Joe Sciarrillo. Podcast is 26 mins. MP3 file is approx. 60MB. Direct download link: http://mattswriting.com/K.Flay-Interview.mp3 ...