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Review

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...
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Review

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.  ...
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Review

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 ...
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Music

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,...
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Music

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...
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Poem

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 ...
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Essay

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 ...
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Review

Mother’s Worry by Chris D. – Review

Marc Olmsted

Chris D. (aka Desjardins) first came to my attention as a published poet in the obscure but excellent zine Birthstone and with his own anthology Bongo Chalice, both in 1977, minutes away from starting his Flesh Eaters band ...
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Story

Gizmo

Gary Indiana

(from Gristle Springs, a novel of intrigue) In a detention cell at Gizmo, Umma Obikhan Khan, supposedly blind as the proverbial bat (having dwelt in many caves, the Umma knew well that bats are not at all blind, but simp...
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Art

Zona Norte – Photographs

Chris Bava

Click any image to launch the full-size slide show. Arriving in Tijuana after over a decade of heroin abuse in a past life, I felt the garish lights of Tijuana’s zona de tolerancia, or North Zone, beckoning. I was f...
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Writing

William S. Burroughs: Interview

Allen Ginsberg

Editor’s Note: Circa 1995, one of the editors of the original Sensitive Skin, Mr. E. Oso, handed me the following manuscript, an interview with William S. Burroughs, in turn given to him by an assistant to Allen Ginsberg, ...
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John Lurie – New Paintings

John Lurie

John Lurie’s drawings and paintings express a disarming mixture of corrosive wit, raw emotion and unblemished sensitivity. His works bear the mark of an outsider, a quality present throughout his idiosyncratic career. To q...
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Painting
Story

Chapter 90 – Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders

Samuel R. Delaney

Note: Inadvertently, Chapter [90] was left out of the printed version of the new novel by Samuel R. Delany, Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders. Insert it on Page 956. What is now numbered Chapter [90] becomes [91]; [9...
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Photographs

Wall Street – Charles Gatewood Photographs

Charles Gatewood

In early 1972, I spent a week with William Burroughs in London, photographing a cover story for Rolling Stone. Burroughs' radical ideas about power, control, and money touched me deeply. When I returned to New York, I bega...
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Poem

Mayakovsky – New Translations

Jenny Wade

Маяковский в 1913 году Я тебя в твоей не знала славе, Помню только бурный твой рассвет, Но, быть может, я сегодня впра...
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Ecce Homo – Photographs by Evelyn Bencicova
Evelyn Bencicova
Natalia Evelyn Bencicova is a 21-year-old visual artist exploring mixed media and photography. She grew up in Bratislava, Slovakia and currently lives in Berlin. She began taking d...
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We Are All Alice B. Toklas
James Reich
Toklasization, being the condition of failing to materialize in one’s autobiography, or of being ghostwritten out by a biographer with more vanity than ours, has become the most ...
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photograph by Pattie Beadles
Cabin
Francine Witte
Every night when the sun sets, I see her. Just over my shoulder like a blind spot in the rearview. Always. Been like this forever. I tell this to my best friend Al, and she lau...
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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 ...
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Afro-Surreal Excerpt
D. Scot Miller
Let me tell you how I met Sham Black. West Virginia, Dunbar Jr. High School football field, 123rd Annual Commode Bowl, Riverside Rats versus The Hillside Rams. photograph...
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