Email Author Michael Leaverton

2012 Stories by Michael Leaverton

• Buy Local — Mostly Beer

  published May 2, 2012

  As a manufacturing outpost, San Francisco doesn’t make very much. We make people click ads, mostly. And we make a lot of coffee. But... More >>

• Celebrity Muscle

  published April 25, 2012

  If fitness trainer Jillian Michaels suddenly appeared next to you at the gym, crushing standing calf-raises, would you work harder? How about... More >>

• Right on Time

  published March 14, 2012

  Few choreographers have stood downtown and not dreamed of staging the morning commute -- all that hustle and bustle, all those people slipping... More >>

• Remotely Composed

  published February 29, 2012

  When we first heard Terry Riley’s “In C,” our minds left us -- all those instruments, in all those minutes, all galloping after... More >>

• And Then Came the Next Idea

  published February 29, 2012

  With the Six-Word Memoir publishing juggernaut, Larry Smith of Smith Magazine discovered a lot of stories need only six... More >>

• Bloomsday

  published February 22, 2012

  Orchids used to appear wonderfully rare and exotic, a specialty plant hunted by romantics, hobbyists, and thieves; today, pallets of hardy,... More >>

• There Wolf

  published February 15, 2012

  Anne Rice is one of the most read modern authors, which is not surprising, because that’s how pacts with Lord Satan work. It’s... More >>

• Four Out of Five?

  published January 4, 2012

  It’s been our experience that a few drinks will benefit any game of Rock Paper Scissors, because then you don’t feel quite so... More >>

• Don’t Make Your Own Ketchup

  published January 4, 2012

  We often wonder whether it’s better to make things at home instead of buying them at a supermarket, especially when we’re buying... More >>