Wow, this signage magically popped up in the poster area. So if your in Chicago Sunday here’s your chance to check out Al & Jessica reading…and its free! Nice use of glitter too!!!
Monthly Archive for April, 2008
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Wow the free area is bursting with fat new issues of Vice, ANP Quarterly and Lumpen. So even if the purse strings are a little tight we got you covered this misty gray day. If you got dough then we got the fancy new Gary Panter book in stock and the new issues of Kevin Huizenga’s Ganges #2, plus new issues of Handbook and GLU if you swing that way. Whoa!
| May ’08 |
| 20 |
| 7:00 pm |
Author Alix Lambert will read from and sign copies of her book CRIME: A Series of Extraordinary Interviews Exposing the World of Crime – Real and Imagined.
As long as it has been documented, crime has captivated the public’s imagination. This book brings together the world of crime with its artistic counterpart and allows a dialogue to develop between the two. Through interviews with detectives, actors, murderers, film directors, prison inmates and authors, Alix Lambert uncovers both the prosaic and the extraordinary in a subject that implicates us all.
Over 5O interviews including:
Ben Affleck, Jake Arnott, LAPD Chief Bratton, Michael Buscemi, Dave Courtney, David Cronenberg, Mike Hodges, Ice-T, Takeshi Kitano, Dennis Lehane, Elmore Leonard, David Mamet, Viggo Mortensen, Samantha Morton
The New York Times Sunday Magazine named Alix Lambert as one of “30 people under 30 who will change the culture in the next 30 years.” Lambert’s feature length documentary “The Mark of Cain” was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award and aired on Nightline. “The Mark of Cain” was used as reference by David Cronenberg in the making of his film “Eastern Promises”. She went on to produce additional segments of Nightline as well as produce 7 segments for the PBS series LIFE 360. Her fine art work has been exhibited in galleries and museums worldwide for the past 15 years. Her work has been shown at the Venice Biennale, The Museum of Modern art in New York, and the Georges Pompidou Center in Paris, to name a few. She was nominated for the BAUM award in photography. She was the Silver Award Documentary Winner at the Atlantic City Film Festival. Lambert is a contributing editor for INDEX magazine and for the literary journal OPEN CITY. As a performer Ms. Lambert is a member of the Obie award winning theater group The Civilians and was seen on stage at PS122 in Nobody’s Lunch. Lambert wrote Episode 6, season 3 of Deadwood: “A Rich Find” and is currently a writer and associate producer on the new HBO / David Milch drama: John From Cinicinnati. Lambert was recently nominated for a WGA award for outstanding writing for a dramatic series for her Deadwood episode.
| May ’08 |
| 17 |
| 7:00 pm |
Celebrate the release of “PEEL: The Art of the Sticker,” a book chronicling PEEL’s innovative coverage of street art as authors Dave and Holly Combs sign copies of the book, give a short talk and possibly pass out free stickers.
PEEL Magazine, now in its fourth year, is the first street-art magazine with a focus on stickers. “Peel: The Art of the Sticker,” which sells for $33 and was designed by MTV art director Shelly Fukushima and published by Mark Batty, includes 69 art stickers bound into each book. All book purchases come with additional stickers donated by the artists.
“Though the artists in the show employ a very wide range of styles and techniques and represent diverse cultures, they all use the sticker as a medium for their work – and that makes it highly accessible,” said Holly Combs.
PEEL got its start after Dave and Holly Combs traveled to New York City to assist with Sept. 11 recovery efforts. While exploring Manhattan during their off hours, they were inspired by the wealth of stickers they saw all over the city. In the years since, PEEL evolved from a black and white zine stuffed into plastic bags to a full-size, glossy, internationally distributed magazine. Their new book documents the development of both PEEL and the sticker culture.
“We’re helping add yet another tool to an artist’s arsenal in the form of the sticker,” Dave Combs said. “PEEL Magazine and our new book work to showcase sticker art’s social and aesthetic power.”
| May ’08 |
| 10 |
| 5:00 pm |
Join Michel Valdes as he reads form the new issue of School Daze.
Michel Valdes is a middle school teacher in Los Angeles, CA. When he’s not being the envy of every 7th and 8th grader he writes a zine or two.
He will be presenting and reading from School Daze Year 1–a zine which chronicles his experiences being a teacher. Come by and say hello..he’ll do his best to make you feel that you can be anything you want when you grow up.
