Email Author Alan Scherstuhl

Awards

• 2009 - Kansas City Press Club Heart of America Awards, published April 24, 2008

  "Desert Storm"

• 2009 - Kansas City Press Club Heart of America Awards, published September 11, 2008

  "Water Logged"

• 2009 - Kansas City Press Club Heart of America Awards, published November 13, 2008

  "What's At Stake"

• 2009 - Kansas City Press Club Heart of America Awards, published April 3, 2008

  "The Best Story of the Year"

More

2012 Stories by Alan Scherstuhl

• 

  FEATURED STORY

  18 More Ridiculous Cakes From the 1970s, Including Hand-in-Pants Ernie

  published May 24, 2012

  Your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from Golden State thrift stores, estate sales, and flea markets. Mail Box News Date:1975 Publisher: Maid of Scan... More >>

• 

  FEATURED STORY

  McDonald's (Purportedly) Healthy, Sustainable Berkeley Location: Yes, We Went to It

  published May 23, 2012

  First off, I apologize in advance for the following comparison to anyone struggling with serious addiction. But my two visits to ... More >>

• 

  FEATURED STORY

  Michael Jackson and Field of Dreams Will Send You to Hell, According to This Dumb 90s Book

  published May 18, 2012

  Your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from Golden State thrift stores, estate sales, and flea markets. How to Be a Successful Teenager Author:Rick Jone... More >>

• Shit George R. R. Martin Says: A Script We're Too Lazy to Film

  published May 09, 2012

  George R. R. Martin sits in a filthy living room, surrounded by soda cans, hamburger wrappers, and crumpled pieces of paper. It's like he's inside a goat, pretty much. Straddling a bucket of chicken, ... More >>

• 

  FEATURED STORY

  "We Have Become a Race of Sex Cripples," Claims 1968's Sexercises [Photos]

  published May 01, 2012

  Your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from Golden State thrift stores, estate sales, and flea markets. Sexercises Author: Edward O'Reilly, M.A., M.S.... More >>

• Live Review, 4/27/12: Miranda Lambert Is a No-B.S. American Great

  published Apr 30, 2012

  Miranda LambertChris YoungJerrod NiemanFriday, April 27, 2012Shoreline AmpitheatreBetter than: Every other currently touring Nashville hitmaker, for reasons gone into below. The short version: Blake ... More >>

• 

  FEATURED STORY

  "Difference Between a Cool Girl and a Loser," From a 1966 Seventeen Magazine

  published Apr 25, 2012

  Your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from Golden State thrift stores, estate sales, and flea markets. Seventeen, America's Teen-age Magazine Date: Jan... More >>

• Man Who Lost Leg in Muni Accident Dies

  published Apr 23, 2012

  UPDATE 2 p.m.: Paul Rose, spokesman with Muni, confirmed that the wheelchair-using victim of today's Muni accident has died. The medical examiner has not yet identified the man. UPDATE: 12:20 p.m.: Mu... More >>

• Live Review, 4/21/2012: Bill Frisell and the Enduring American Spirit

  published Apr 23, 2012

  Bill Frisell & Bill Morrison's The Great Flood Saturday, April 21 Herbst Theatre One of the most gratifying developments in all American music has been innovative jazz guitarist Bill Frisell's explo... More >>

• SF Weekly Food Critic Jonathan Kauffman Is Moving On

  published Apr 19, 2012

  Here's some bittersweet news for anyone who has vicariously savored the San Francisco meals Jonathan Kauffman captures in the exacting, inventive prose of his weekly review column. After two years of ... More >>

• 

  FEATURED STORY

  Live Review, 4/17/12: Pulp Makes the Class War Sexy at the Warfield

  published Apr 18, 2012

  Pulp Tuesday, April 17, 2012 The Warfield, San Francisco So, last night, on the 29th anniversary of the release of their first record, svelte glammy/chatty Britpop heroes Pulp stormed the Warfield, w... More >>

• 

  FEATURED STORY

  Terrible Highlights from Old United Daughters of the Confederacy Magazines

  published Apr 12, 2012

  Your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from Golden State thrift stores, estate sales, and flea markets. A small stack of United Daughters of the Confedera... More >>

• 

  FEATURED STORY

  Harry Knowles' New Web Series Is the Worst Thing Since Harry Knowles' Web-Site

  published Apr 06, 2012

  Studio-flattering man-child and Ain't It Cool News founder Harry Knowles' wretched new web series went online yesterday morning, but we're only getting around to writing about it now because it has ta... More >>

• 

  FEATURED STORY

  Thrift-Store Copy of Paris Hilton's "Your Heiress Diary" Is History's Second Saddest Journal

  published Apr 05, 2012

  Your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from Golden State thrift stores, estate sales, and flea markets. Your Heiress Diary Author: Paris Hilton, purport... More >>

• 

  FEATURED STORY

  Amazing '50s Evangelical Tract Calls Most Women Whores

  published Mar 30, 2012

  Your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from Golden State thrift stores, estate sales, and flea markets. Adultery and Its Problems! Author: Mrs. M. A. Da... More >>

• Subway Can't Afford to Give San Francisco Five-Dollar Footlongs

  published Mar 28, 2012

  Odd news from Subway, the ubiquitous sandwich chain distinguished by its sickly-sweet bread stink, its perpetually fogged-over windows, and that galumphing pitchman who reverentially lugs about his ol... More >>

• 

  FEATURED STORY

  Here Is That 1965 "Problems of Sex Organ Size" Pamphlet You've Been Looking For

  published Mar 27, 2012

  Your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from Golden State thrift stores, estate sales, and flea markets. Problems of Sex Organ Size Author: Paul Willia... More >>

• Geraldo Rivera, You're This Close to Telling Black Kids to Wear White Face Make Up

  published Mar 23, 2012

  Dear Geraldo, Usually, when people get mad at you, they bring up that time a white supremacist broke your nose with a chair, or that time your live-TV peek into Al Capone's crawl space revealed only ... More >>

• 

  FEATURED STORY

  10 Highlights from Chuck Norris Karate Kommandos Comics, Drawn by Steve Ditko

  published Mar 22, 2012

  Your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from Golden State thrift stores, estate sales, and flea markets. Chuck Norris Karate Kommandos issues 2 and 3 Au... More >>

• Live Review, 3/16/12: Drive-By Truckers Are Pretty Much Why We Bothered Having Rock 'n' Roll in the First Place

  published Mar 19, 2012

  Drive-By TruckersFriday, March 16, 2012The FillmoreSomewhere out there in the multiverse, on Earth 2 or some damn place, opening for what's left of Lynyrd Skynyrd back in '02 brought Drive-By Truckers... More >>

• 

  So Madonna Is a Satanist, According to This Detailed and Hilarious Christian Post Article

  published Mar 17, 2012

  You know everything that's ever been memorable about Madonnar The dunce-cap bustiers, the dry-humping of various taboos, the deeply remunerative pop-sexual controversiesr Oh, and all those great songs... More >>

• 

  FEATURED STORY

  Ethel Cotton's 1960 Course in Conversation Will Teach You Fancy Talkin'

  published Mar 15, 2012

  Your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from Golden State thrift stores, estate sales, and flea markets. The Ethel Cotton Course in Conversation Author: ... More >>

• 

  FEATURED STORY

  Lost Robert Altman Movie Discovered at Flea Market by Filmmaker Gary Huggins (Video)

  published Mar 12, 2012

  Long before he chronicled the human comedy in rough-edged classics like M*A*S*H, Nashville, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, and Short Cuts, iconoclastic director Robert Altman spent decades perfecting the rules... More >>

• 

  FEATURED STORY

  Harold Camping Apologizes for There Still Being a World

  published Mar 09, 2012

  A letter of apology from apocalypse-predicting nonagenarian radio preacher Harold Camping was released yesterday on his Family Radio website. "Yes, we humbly acknowledge we were wrong about the timing... More >>

• 

  FEATURED STORY

  The Joys of Russian Star Wars: Meet Tripeo, Erdva Dedva, and Obi-Wan Knob

  published Mar 08, 2012

  Your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from Golden State thrift stores, estate sales, and flea markets. Big Star Wars article in Amerika Magazine Date: 1... More >>