Matt's Writing

Matt Werner, writer & editor

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Oakland Unseen releases Spring 2023 issue

Oakland Unseen is a satirical newspaper in the style of The Onion. It is hyper-local fake journalism that covers Oakland and San Francisco’s real news stories through satire. Our street team of newsies is handing out 10,000 copies of this newspaper for free at San Francisco Sketchfest venues in early 2023, and also at Oakland’s […]

Burning Man: The Musical now a feature film!

Burning Man: The Musical had its world premiere on Broadway On Demand and Streaming Musicals on August 27, 2021. Watch the film now. After working with the composer Gene Back for 6 years, we’re excited to announce that our satirical musical comedy has been turned into a feature film. It was shot on a soundstage […]

Recent Posts

Michael Pollan book review throwback

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Before I review Berkeley author Michael Pollan's latest book Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation, here's a throwback book review I did of Pollan's book The Omnivore's Dilemma for San Francisco's Mensa publication, the Mensa Intelligencer back … [Read more]

Bay Area Underground is featured on the Huffington Post

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In the last month an a half, Bay Area Underground has been covered by a number of publications including: San Francisco Magazine, Berkeleyside, Oakland Local, and KQED. And today, the Huffington Post ran an excerpt from the book with a slideshow of … [Read more]

Bay Area Underground book launches on Jan. 1, 2013!

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Bay Area Underground, the first photobook to cover the Occupy movement in the Bay Area and also the Oscar Grant protests, launches on January 1, 2013! Purchase the book from Thought Publishing or your local independent bookstore. About the … [Read more]