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The buzz about Kitchen Sink!

There’s no magazine out there quite like Kitchen Sink, from the distinctive way it looks—every issue of the illustration-oriented quarterly draws a look from newsstand browsers—to the unique, informed, and highly personal perspectives the writers bring to the mag’s pages. Though the magazine has six separate sections, the topics contained therein cross-pollinate and otherwise commingle, creating a sort of Choose-Your-Own-Magazine than can be entered from any point, read anywhere, and enjoyed in short sittings or long, dedicated reading sessions. In its three short years, KS has established a niche in the alternative press and among those literati with a countercultural bent (and even among quite a few hipsters who haven’t read a thing since high school English, but just want to be seen in smart company.)

Winner, Best of the Bay, 2004, San Francisco Magazine

Nominated, 2004 UTNE Independent Press Award, Best Cultural and Social Coverage

Winner, Best of the Bay, 2003. SF Weekly, SF Bay Guardian, and East Bay Express

Winner, Best New Title, 2003. Utne Independent Press Awards

Nominated, Best Design, Best Cultural and Social Coverage, Utne Independent Press Awards

Kitchen Sink content, writers and editors have been featured on local independent radio stations like UC Berkeley’s KALX and San Francisco’s KALW.

But don’t just take our word for it. The proofs in the press clips, right? (And the awards!)

“This magazine’s true personality shines through with intelligent underground pop culture meanderings. Inside you’ll find the rules for the Superman Drinking Game, stories like “My Boyfriend’s a Lesbian,” and reportage on the half-baked conspiracy theory that the pee from girls on birth control is turning the male fish population into mutant females. All are good reasons to pass over the sea of Xerox-toned travesties on the shelf and get your read on with the magazine most likely to claim Might’s long-departed throne.”
XLR8R

“Kitchen Sink (tagline: “For people who think too much”) is a half-pound’s worth of first-person essays, musical ruminations, and comics, all artfully packaged with this sleek, makes-you-want-to-rub-it-on-your-face cover.”
East Bay Express

“It was the kind of wet, blustery night that forces umbrellas to flip inside out, but the crowd at the party for Kitchen Sink magazine kept growing. The art was cool. The music was cool. The partygoers were cool…it made perfect sense that these urbanites with good eyewear and interesting facial hair were the creators and readers of Kitchen Sink, a stylish new arts, culture and politics quarterly that bears the tag line “for people who think too much” and looks something like a zine that went to graduate school.”

San Francisco Chronicle

“Kitchen Sink, the feisty mag for punk rock intellectuals.”
Flavorpill, February 11, 2003

“Ambitious and substantial.”
Utne Reader

“Word-heavy and design-light, Kitchen Sink is a bedside friend...Kitchen Sink could be gone-but-not-forgotten Speak’s adopted brother.”
SF Bay Guardian

Everything But the Mag

The quarterly’s so full of content and moxie that it spills off the page—figuratively and literally, judging by the enthusiastic responses that our readings, parties, and other events have generated. Check it:

Kitchen Sink, “The magazine for people who think too much,” is hosting its first Indie Mag All-Stars Party—an event, let’s say, for people who read too much. With writers from Bitch, Comet, The Believer, and several other smarty-pants local publications set to appear, the event looks like it’s got the right name.”
SF Weekly

“The art was cool. The music was cool. The partygoers were cool: They all seemed like they were 28 and played in bands or made films or otherwise had some indy-artsy credentials. In other words, it made perfect sense that these urbanites with good eyewear and interesting facial hair arrangements were the creators and readers of Kitchen Sink, a stylish new arts, culture and politics quarterly that bears the tag line “for people who think too much” and looks something like a zine that went to graduate school.”
San Francisco Chronicle

More About Kitchen Sink magazine

Kitchen Sink is the pilot publishing project of Neighbor Lady Community Arts Project, a 501c3 nonprofit corporation. For more information about Kitchen Sink and NLCAP, visit kitchensinkmag.com. Kitchen Sink is a proud member of the Independent Press Association (indypress.org).