I am going on a short reading tour this month with my old friend, Jeff Miller, the writer behind Canada’s best and longest-running zine, Ghost Pine. Jeff and I are celebrating the release of brand new anthologies of the old issues of our zines. We will also have the pleasure of reading with other old [...]
The new issue of Scam is finally finished and out in the world. This issue is 64-pages and has a three-color cover I letter-pressed myself with help from the generous folks at The Arm here in Brooklyn. This action-packed issue is about my trip back to my hometown of Miami as a reporter to cover [...]
SCAM readers and Black Rainbow/Allergic To Bullshit fans are no doubt familiar with the exploits of my best friend and longtime co-conspirator, Ivy Jeanne McClelland. This month, Ivy had planned to go to Haiti to work on a film she was making about pioneering Haitian woman activist, Magalie Marcelin. Ivy was to stay with her [...]
In December, I returned to Miami to cover Art Basel Miami Beach for the San Francisco Bay Guardian and to check out the mammoth art fair’s effects on my hometown. Miami, still the poorest city in the nation and now chock full of half-empty condos, has sought to reinvent itself by linking itself to the [...]
I’m back in the Bay for a minute and am happy to announce I have a couple cool reading gigs while I’m here in town. Friday, October 16, I will be appearing with Layla Gibbon from Maximum Rock and Roll and John Marr from Murder Can Be Fun at a Litquake panel discussion on the [...]
At last, the Onion Flavored Rings pile in the mini-van with all-star roadie, Erin Yanke, and head out in late September on our first nationwide tour since 2005. We are celebrating the imminent release of our new 7″, Funny, on Thrillhouse Records and are looking forward to some great looking shows with friends like Rvivr, [...]
Another San Francisco friend and collaborator, Rigo 23, recently came through NYC to work on his installation at the New Museum on Bowery. For the show, entitled “The Deeper They Bury Me, The Louder My Voice Becomes” , Rigo made a replica of a prison cell in a stairwell of the gallery in tribute to [...]
My buddy, Kal Spelletich, a longtime SF artist and street warrior, is coming back to NYC for the September 3rd closing party for his recent show at Jack Hanley Gallery (136 Watts, just below Canal Street at Holland Tunnel). The show is called California Investigative Healing and includes Kal’s homemade robots, the music of Herb [...]
The San Francisco Bay Guardian this week ran my lengthy piece about the great Bolano and my take on the Obama Era we are entering. Hope you like it! There is a wry but hilarious scene near the very end of Roberto Bolaño’s novel 2666 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 912 pages; $30), in which a [...]
Black Rainbow is lucky to have found two fine labels to put out 7″‘s for us this summer. Thrillhouse Records of San Francisco put out the first one in time for our summer tour. This record has three songs and comes with a 28-page booklet with information about the Diggers of San Francisco, the Alemany [...]