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Daedalus Howell

San Francisco
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Covers:  Art, Culture, Film, Wine
Doesn't Cover: Politics, Financial
By day, I'm a small town journo. By happy hour, I'm an indie writer & filmmaker world building in Wine Country.

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Daedalus Howell’s Biography

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Editor of the North Bay Bohemian, Pacific Sun and North Bay Magazine.

Writer-director of the feature films Werewolf Serenade and Pill Head.

Howell has written premium content for Medium, wine stories for Men’s Health, and produced arts coverage for the San Francisco Chronicle among other Bay Area bylines including the Sonoma Index-Tribune, Sonoma Magazine, Emlen Media and more.

He’s the author, most recently, of Quantum Deadline, ), and appears regularly on The Drive with Steve Jaxon (KRSH 95.5…

Daedalus Howell’s Journalist Portfolio

Burning Down the Art House | Daedalus Howell | CREATIVE

Burning Down the Art House | Daedalus Howell | CREATIVE

A Podcast Mini-Series I kick off the second season of my blog and podcast venture Culture Dept. with a three-…

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Blue Snaggletooth: I've Seen the Action Figure and He Is Us

Blue Snaggletooth: I've Seen the Action Figure and He Is Us

Officially, he doesn't exist. He has no past, no story - he'd be prime black-ops material if he wasn't part o…

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How 'The Conversation' Captured the Essence of Paranoia

How 'The Conversation' Captured the Essence of Paranoia

One of the idioms I hate is often framed in a question like: "Can I put a bug in your ear?" First off, uh, no…

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Pics or It Didn't Happen: In Praise of 'Blow-Up' at 50

Pics or It Didn't Happen: In Praise of 'Blow-Up' at 50

Blow-Up is half a century old. I first learned of Michelangelo Antonioni's groundbreaking slice of surveillan…

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Atomic Bombs

Atomic Bombs

The author learns that Los Alamos is just a place. (Or, How I learned to start worrying and hate the bomb) By…

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Action Figure

Action Figure

Daedalus Howell's novel Quantum Deadline: The Lumaville Labyrinth is hard to categorize. Let's call it a noir…

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Articles

Petaluma Director Brings Horror to National Cinemas

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By Daedalus Howell
| North Bay Bohemian
The theatrical release and box office explosion of the new A24 psychological horror film, Backrooms, represent a landmark moment in modern cinema. It serves as the intersection of three major contemporary cinematic trends: the box office dominance of horror, the mainstream acceptance of a new YouTube-to-cinema pipeline and a successful push to get Gen Z into movie theaters instead of streaming from home.
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1976, the North Bay’s Big Year

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By Daedalus Howell
| Pacific Sun
Fifty years ago this year, California’s drought of 1976 was so severe that we in the burbs kept buckets in the shower to use the run-off to water our lawns and load our squirt guns. A neighbor had a sign in their bathroom that read, “If it’s yellow, let it mellow; if it’s brown, flush it down.” This was read to me by an older child since I had yet to learn how to read. I was only four years old—it would be an entire year before the fledgling literacy of kindergarten, let alone  Star Wars.
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Hammer Time: Destroy Your Phone Habit—or Your Phone

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By Daedalus Howell
| North Bay Bohemian
In the ’90s I frequented a long-gone cafe where an elder busser would advise, apropos of nothing, that the road to intellectual emancipation starts with “putting a bullet in the TV.” His name was probably Mike—they all were. Bearded like a medieval scholar, he quoted liberally from William Burroughs’ Naked Lunch, and by “elder,” I mean he was probably 30-something. Suffice it to say, his breed of working-class sage doesn’t exist anymore.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Arts Editor, Petaluma Argus-Courier

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Once, I think, in a dream.

How is social media changing news?

Social media is fake news.

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