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Fauxhemian Wine Tasting @ Quimby’s Bridgeport

Published on November 6, 2005 0 Comments
Nov ’05
6
12:00 am

Quimby’s Bridgeport is at 3201 S. Morgan, which is south of W. 31st street and west of Halsted, between and S. Aberdeen and S. Lituanica Ave.
 
Saturday Oct 29th 7PM
FREE
Imaginary History Fauxhemian Wine Tasting Bring your own bottle of wine/non-alcoholic wine/wine-flavored beverage of your choosing (decorate the label first), and discuss the the history you’ve created. How was this wine prepared? With what does it pair well? Where does it come from? How does it taste? What is delicious/lame about it? What is the vintage? This is all up to you. Cheese will be provided. Feel free to wear those cocktail outfits that you feel like you’re all dressed up in but have nowhere to go.
 
This event is part of Select Media Festival, full line up and info can be found atwww.selectmediafestival.org

Good Advice for Young Trendy People of All Ages Event

Published on November 5, 2005 0 Comments
Nov ’05
5
12:00 am

Jennifer Blowdryer andMoonshine Shorey read fromGood Advice for Young Trendy People of All AgesTuesday, September 20th7PMFREE
 
Good Advice for Young Trendy People of All Ages Edited by Jennifer Blowdryer is a countercultural self-help book compiled by a veteran of the underground who has spent 30 years in the alt-art trenches, these experiential, very real commentaries from todays underground luminaries offer honest and humorous advice on everything from Door Etiquette for the Nightlife-Challenged by Clint Catalyst to How to be an Art Star by downtown NYC scenester , Reverend Jen. Without a hint of irony, Good Advice shows would-be bohemians how things really are (How to Live in Debt by Mykel Board), instead of selling far-fetched dreams of writing the great novel or producing the top gallery show.
 
Jennifer Blowdryer?s writing has appeared in Punk Globe, Maximum RocknRoll, Chic, Penthouse Forum, and Downtown. She has also written Modern English: A Trendy Slang Dictionary, The Laziest Secretary In The World, and White Trash Debutante. A writer for the NY Press, she lives in New York City.
 
Moonshine Shorey a contributor to the book will also be on hand to read.

PAPER RAD Book Release Event

Published on November 4, 2005 0 Comments
Nov ’05
4
12:00 am

PAPER RAD Book Release EventSaturday October 22nd 5PM
 
How do you explain the new book by Paper Rad, Paper Rad, B.J. and da Dogs? Half Art Book, half graphic novel, this tome intersperses photographs, drawings, prints, and junk by Paper Rad with two graphic novellas (Spaceballz and Alfe) by Ben Jones. Paper Rad’s work synthesizes popular material from television, comics, video games, and advertising, and explodes with color, feeling, and good humor. This book, created and designed by the group, will explore the worlds of one of the most vibrant constellations of artists working today. Their website, paperrad.org, is one free Mega-Mall information overload for your soul. A mind-blower, for sure
 
Paper Rad is Jessica Ciocci, her brother Jacob, and their friend Ben Jones. Since the year 2000 they have created a massive catalogue of self-published and self-distributed comics and magazines, videos, audio cassette tapes, hand-painted t-shirts, stuffed sewn dolls, audio cd-rs, and records. They have exhibited or performed at numerous galleries and museums around the world, including the 2004 Whitney Biennial, The 2004 Liverpool Biennial, Deitch Projects, The Institute of Contemporary Art, London, and The Tate Britain. Most recently, they completed two music videos for Beck and created a massive cardboard castle for Philadelphia?s Space 1026. Earlier this year, Paper Rad was named one of ArtReview?s 25 emerging artists. They are represented by Foxy Production.
 
Paper Rad will sign their new book, show some of their video work, and maybe have some mini comics for sale.
 
Check out their website: www.paperrad.org

McSweeney’s Event with: Paul Collins, Nathan Rabin, Claire Zulkey, Elizabeth Crane

Published on November 2, 2005 0 Comments
Nov ’05
2
12:00 am

Paul Collins, Nathan RabinClaire Zulkey, Elizabeth Crane Tuesday November 1st 7PM
 
The Collins Library is proud to present the triumphant return of Harry Stephen Keeler?to some, an overlooked genius; to others, the Ed Wood of detective fiction. The Riddle of the Traveling Skull is perhaps his best-loved work. The adventure begins when a poem and a mysterious handbag lead a man to the grave of Legga, the Human Spider?and things just get stranger from there.
 
The event will feature readings from:
 
Paul Collins edits the Collins Library series for McSweeney’s Book, including their latest volume THE RIDDLE OF THE TRAVELING SKULL. His own most recent book is THE TROUBLE WITH TOM.
 
Nathan Rabin is the head writer for The Onion AV Club, and featured in their interview collection THE TENACITY OF THE COCKROACH. He is a regular contributor to Air America and NPR’s Day to Day.
 
Claire Zulkey is the author of GIRLS! GIRLS! GIRLS! Her work has appeared in the Chicago Tribune, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, NPR and Second City, and she writes daily at zulkey.com .
 
Elizabeth Crane is the author of two collections of short stories from Little, Brown, WHEN THE MESSENGER IS HOT and ALL THIS HEAVENLY GLORY, and writes frequently at elizabethcrane.com/blog/ .

Sander Hicks author The Big Wedding: 9/11, The Whistle-Blowers, and the Cover-Up

Published on November 1, 2005 0 Comments
Nov ’05
1
12:00 am

Author Sander Hicks and Folk-Singer Holley Anderson Livein Support of Hicks?The Big Wedding: 9/11, The Whistle-Blowers, and the Cover-Up
Monday Oct. 31st 7PM
 
Sander Hicks is the investigative journalist and independent publisher who started Soft Skull Press and Vox Pop/DKMC. He has appeared on 60 Minutes, on HBO/Cinemax in the documentary, Horns and Halos, and has been featured in magazines Punk Planet and Silicon Alley Reporter. Hicks has done innovative reporting on 9/11 for the New York Press, Long Island Press, INN World Report Television, and the Guerrilla News Network (gnn.tv). Hicks claims to be the only reporter verbally abused by a member of the 9/11 Commission. Sander and Holley Anderson, his wife, run the Vox Pop coffeehouse, bookstore and media company in Brooklyn, NY. His live ?performance politics? on 10/31 at Quimby’s will have a special emphasis on the darkest secrets of the GOP, commenting on the little-known 1989 Bush White House call boys scandal and the possible Bush ties to Satanism and ritual murder.
 
As publisher of the critical Bush biography Fortunate Son in 2001, Sander Hicks had a unique position from which to cast a hard look at the official story around the 9/11 attacks. The Big Wedding examines the CIA?s controlling, client relationship with Pakistani intelligence, which had close, documented, under-reported links to the 9/11 terrorists. Hicks acquired startling revelations from government whistleblowers, including lauded FBI Whistleblower Coleen Rowley, ATF Agent Steve Barborini, CIA asset Brad Ayers, and US Navy veteran/con-man Delmart Vreeland.
 
Holley Anderson is a radical, smart, folky singer-songwriter and a partner at Vox Pop. Her music is both spiritual and political, the perspective of a young mother outraged at the current state of the world but empowered by a vision for social change.