spy emerson

09 Aug 2018

Making The Art for ‘Sorry To Bother You’, and Yes, It Involves Horses

If you live in the Bay, you know as well as I do that the Oakland art scene is dope.  Oakland is famously creative, diverse and hungry, it’s got a rebel soul, a musical heart, and activist arms.  Last summer, following the incredible success of Black Panther directed by Oakland

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19 Feb 2018

Pagan Matchmaking Takes East Bay by Storm in Happy Forever

Spy Emerson: performance artist, salacious sex goddess and owner/purveyor of the infamous Hook-Up Truck, adorned the stage of Albany’s historic Ivy Room Monday, for an iterative performance of Happy Forever, her vaudevillian, burlesque-esque variety-and-game show of sin, surrealism and surprise. Happy Forever has taken numerous shapes and forms over its 20-year

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10 Apr 2025

Eat, Game, & Sing in San Francisco This Spring!

It’s Springtime in San Francisco, which means it’s time to put your phone on silent for a while and step out into our fair city to sing, eat, and play with the wonderful people and programming on offer. Whether in the flesh or on a live stream, the journalists and

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16 Nov 2017

The Hook-up Truck, SF’s Mobile ‘Sexual Adventuring’ Room is Back

That’s right, the Bay’s very own national news making “Hook-Up Truck” is back after a long hiatus.  We stumbled across it and its creator Spy Emerson the other night on Valencia St. outside Wonderland SF.  Spy told us she had taken some time off to travel but that now “the mobile

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