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…
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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,…
Dan Weiss Thinks About Music Too Much #2: Samamidon
I’m in the Central Valley right now (this is up for debate, but I use the phrase like Joan Didion would to refer to the area surrounding Sacramento).
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,…
Dan Weiss Thinks About Music Too Much #1: Best Coast
A new, semi-regular blog from our most knowledgeable Rumpus employee when it comes to music: Morning Coffee editor Dan Weiss. It’s pretty cold in San Francisco right now.
“I always just wanted to do comics.”
John Forrester profiles artist and musician Jeffrey Lewis. (Read the Rumpus interview with Lewis here.)
“Lyric poetry, after all, was first written for the lyre.”
“He’s been writing in rhyme and meter — which is to say, formal verse — for decades.” Jim Fisher argues that singer/songwriter John Darnielle, of Mountain Goats fame, is a…
Bastille Day Soiree
NOON and Gigantic Present Bastille Day Soiree with Diane Williams, Rebecca Curtis, Joshua Cohen and Special Guest DJ John Pugh of Free Blood (and formerly of !!!).
Notable San Francisco, This Week: 7/12-7/18
This (sexy) week: Get your Rumpus on at the Makeout Room, makeout with someone in honor of Bastille Day, and help Carol Queen celebrate her birthday in true Exhibitionist stylewith…