Scott Beale

Scott Beale

Scott Beale founded Laughing Squid in 1995 in San Francisco and is currently based in New York City. When not running the blog, Scott can be found posting on Bluesky and sharing photos on Instagram.
The Will Franken Fringe Benefit

The Will Franken Fringe Benefit

Laughing Squid presents Will Franken in “The Will Franken Fringe Benefit”, consisting of two completely different shows, one on Friday, June 24th and another on…

SFGate Culture Blog

SFGate Culture Blog

SFGate has joined the community of San Francisco based blogs with their recently launched Culture Blog. Welcome to the neighborhood! Written by a group of…

How to Destroy the Universe: Part IV

How to Destroy the Universe: Part IV

The 4th incarnation of How to Destroy the Universe takes place this weekend at The Shipyard in Berkeley (Friday, June 24th & Saturday, June 25th)…

Hi Fructose Magazine Issue #1

Hi Fructose Magazine Issue #1

The long wait is over. The first issue of Hi Fructose, then new art & culture magazine by Attaboy and Annie Owens, has finally arrived!…

Technorati stickers

The New Technorati

Back in March I mentioned the blog search engine Technorati, which had just hit the one billion mark of links tracked. Well, Technorati has been…

tribe25

Tribe25

Tribe has just announced Tribe25 “People to Know in 2005” and I’m honored to be selected by the Tribe community as one of the 25.…

Bookmark Now

‘Bookmark Now’ by Kevin Smokler

Our good friend, local writer Kevin Smokler has a new book out: “Bookmark Now: Writing in Undreaderly Times”, published by Basic Books. The book contains…

Photos: Henry Ford Museum

photo by Scott Beale I was in Detroit last week and while there I visited the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, which is part of…