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America as Afterimage in True Detective

Marian St. Laurent

The moral righteousness of the Western genre with its clear definitions of good vs. evil looks quaint from where we find ourselves in 2014. If heroes are symbols of evolving cultural values, the fact that our pantheon ...

Super Size Me – 10th Anniversary Soundtrack

Steve Horowitz

Now available on Amazon and iTunes, the new release from Sensitive Skin Music: Steve Horowitz's Super Size Me 10th Anniversary soundtrack. It’s been ten years since Morgan Spurlock’s documentary Super Size Me came out...

Kali’s Day By Bonny Finberg – A Review

Bonny Finberg

Kali’s Day By Bonny Finberg An Autonomedia/Unbearable Book, 2014 Bonny Finberg's Kali's Day is an odd combination, a melancholy, picaresque spinning prayer wheel of a novel, almost contemporary and nearly timeless. It ...

Kraftwerk 3D, in concert at the United Palace Theatre

Franklin Mount

Kraftwerk. A band whose name, in English, means "power plant," but, since it's German, the name is somehow more elemental in the band's native language. Basically: power+work. I'm still, this afternoon at least, luxuriat...

The Antisocial Butterfly – a review of Jill Rapaport’s “Duchamp et Moi”

Robert C. Hardin

It begins with a withered Dadaist and parents. In the title story of Jill Rapaport’s new collection, Duchamp et Moi, a French-Romanian pop and painter mom learn that their favorite creaking enfant terrible is in town. ...

Duchamp et Moi – review of the short story collection by Jill Rapaport

Jim Feast

I think Jill Rapaport’s new collection of short stories, Duchamp et Moi, has been praised for the wrong reasons, talk of “individual sentences shimmering,” and so on. This has been said in the mistaken impression that ...

Venice Is a Fish

Theresa Wong

Theresa Wong's Venice Is a Fish,the new release from Sensitive Skin MusicN, now available on Amazon and iTunes and available here for free listening. Theresa Wong's Venice Is A Fish is a diary manifest in songs. And more,...

Suicide Tour

Marty Thau

Suicide, the seminally important and confrontational duo consisting of vocalist Alan Vega and electronic musician Martin Rev, formed in 1970 and have been active intermittently since that time. Marty Thau, founder of Red Sta...

My Heart Is A Wiffle Ball Freedom Pole of Rumpleforeskin — for Kristen Stewart

Sharon Mesmer

My Heart Is A Wiffle Ball Freedom Pole of Rumpleforeskin -- for Kristen Stewart I reared your monkey penis sausage You read my poetry at the nighttime elf race Then scrawled neon squid across the horny thighs of ...

Excerpt From Lollapalooza Tour Diaries

Maggie Estep

Wed. August 24th, 1994, Phoenix, AZ. It's 120 degrees here and the sky is huge. In spite of the heat they seem to be big on poetry in Phoenix. I read 4 poems then almost passed out from the heat. My t shirt was soaked ...