Notable San Francisco, This Week: 8/2-8/8
This week, Quiet Lightning! First Tuesday: TechnoCraft @ YBCA, and art, art, art! In North Beach @ DoublePunch, Western Addition @ Big Umbrella, and in the Haight at the Summer…
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Notable New York, This Week 8/2 – 8/8
This week in New York Jennifer Vanderbes Feasts, David Carter for Gay Rights, Peter Hedges and Jonathan Tropper shows us how to bring black and white to color, Geoffrey O’Brien…
The Death of the King of the Jungle
Jan Lenica’s political caricatures from the 1950 book Polska Karykatura Polityczna (Polish Political Caricature):
Notable San Francisco, This Week: 7/26-8/1
This week, make your Monday, discover a microhood, Tourettes Without Regrets goes XXX, and The Mission has some more artsy block parties. Monday 7/26: Get yourself to the Fort Mason…
Notable New York, This Week 7/26 – 8/1
In New York this week Rick Moody kicks off his book tour, BOMB Magazine hosts its Summer Bash at Glasslands, Black Keys perform at Summer Stage, Anderbo.com hosts Anderbo Indoors,…
NIKKO at City Lights
Delfin Vigil’s fantastic true story Nikko: Concrete Commando, has just became available at City Lights in San Francisco. Nikko was first published here on The Rumpus, and then beautifully self-published in…
From Early Groening to Gary Panter
“In the early 1980s, comics were as much a part of Los Angeles alternative culture scene as independent film and punk rock.” Comics historian Ben Schwartz takes us back to…
AIDS Hits Home
“In November, 1990, LIFE magazine published a photograph of a young man, David Kirby — his body wasted by AIDS, his gaze locked on something beyond this world — surrounded…
Bohemian Subsidy
Czechoslovakian matchbox labels (1950s/60s: agriculture) from the collection of design hero David Pearson:
Notable New York, This Week 7/21-7/25
This week FUNny Writers substitutes your PB&J, Volume 1 provides the shortest record reviews ever, Audiences share their works at The Inspired Word and The Moth StorySLAM, Heebs hate tushies,…