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Trans-Atlantic Soul

Stewart Home

When I was at school in the 1970s, the hip kids were obsessed with old soul records, and while I dug those sounds I never paid much attention to them telling me I should go to Wigan Casino for the soul all-nighters. ...

Singer-Songwriter Maria Q

The Editors

Maria Q is an old-school style singer-songwriter who grew up and performs in the Bay Area. You can certainly hear Joni Mitchel in her compelling voice and authoritative guitar arrangements; other influences include Kris Delm...

The Sensitive Skin Magazine explained

The Editors

Two furry forest creatures grapple with the obscure dialectics of Sensitive Skin Magazine - who's right, furry forest man or furry forest woman? Who's to say, watch and decide for yourself... NOTE: Somebody informed us la...

Daddy’s House: On Discovering Playboy

Michael A. Gonzales

Going to daddy's gaudy Harlem apartment every other weekend was one of the highlights of my childhood. Living in the heart of the hood, he worked as a full-time barber and part time hustler. A sawed off Puerto Rican who stoo...

A Meating of the Minds, or, Who Minds the Meat?

J. Boyett

My lover and I decided to stop using our bodies. Of course we had to keep using them—for things like breathing, eating, being alive—but we decided to stop using them when making love. “Because isn't it a spiritual th...

The Evil Elves

Darius James

Clunkitty-clunkitty CLUNK-CLUNK-CLUNK!!! This was not the clatter of the goat-hooved devil girls on the roof of the Froggie Family home. Clunkitty-clunkitty CLUNK-CLUNK-CLUNK!!! Nor the gentle patter of ballet-slippered...

Communitas & other poems

Merry Fortune

Communitas The birds are stars The chick a body A star there plays the window of a lean limo, crooning it's raining From out is born A way gone and never Inside out threads love you there and here while songs ...

Conquistador

Michael Carter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vb6lf3VMNIk Copper-green pigeon-saluted Statue of Balboa rusts quietly In the bright California sun; Balboa beach, or was it Coronado? Conquistador blares from a car radio, A yellow Do...

Mandy, Charlie & Mary-Jane

Stewart Home

was told the fastest route to Hell was by Metro. I took a train to South Hades. The local information map had Mount Olympus and numerous other mythological sites from the major world religions marked on it as being located ...

Soul Trip 999

Barbara Greczny

Soul Trip 999 combined work that was shot over a ten-year period on super 8, mini DV and digital stills. It's an experimental piece that explores the various modes of travel in Toronto from walking to taking the subway. It i...

Photographs

Hal Hirshorn

Hal Hirshorn makes 21st century photographs using 19th century materials and methods. Specifically, salt prints, a technique invented by William Henry Fox Talbot in 1841. The intention however is not to recreate period f...

The Milky Way

Jill Rapaport

The children of George Washington can thank their thirteen-plus stars that wooden teeth like his do not mar their cheerful visages; and I speak as one descended in part from the brave general, and specifically the daughter o...

This is! Ralph Carney!

Ralph Carney

Ralph Carney is a multi-instrumentalist/horn player who has spent the better part of the last 2 decades criss-crossing the world, on stage and in studios with the likes of Tom Waits, Jonathan Richman, William Burroughs, Al...

Flesh and Memory

Jose Padua

When I moved to New York I got a job with Nice Titties/Show Us Your Cock magazine. We were the competition and I wrote the captions. Whenever the Village Voice used the phrase “post- modern urban griot deconstr...

Reading with Darius James, Patricia Eakins, Craig Clevenger, Heather Folsom & D. Scot Miller

The Editors

And now, the moment you've all been waiting for - Darius James reads a hilarious excerpt from his novel "Froggy Chocolates," a tender Xmas story for all the little boys and girls...wait, scratch that, nobody under 25 or so s...