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 [...]
YOB will be playing Friday December 5th in Chattanooga at Anarchtica with The Hidden Spots around 10:00 PM. Earlier in the night, Mitchell and I will be appearing at Ziggy’s down the street. I will read and Mitchell’s film, “I’m Like This Every Day” will make its debut in the Region. This show starts at [...]
Fittingly, my very last events promoting this book will take place back in my home state of Florida and in my old city of Miami. I’m looking forward to cafe cubano and cheap black beans and rice and swimming in the ocean at midnight in December — some of the best things about Miami. In [...]
I’m excited to announce some new dates back home in The Region. I’ll be reading in Chattanooga, TN and Asheville, NC on December 5 and 6 on tour with old friend and band member, Mitchell Powers, and his new short documentary film, “I’m Like This Everyday”. The 20-minute film, a selection at this year’s San [...]
Here are the final dates for the Midwest/Canada Tour August 11 Chicago Quimby’s August 12 Milwaukee, WI Cream City Collective August 13 Madison, WI Rainbow Bookstore Co-op August 14 Minneapolis, MN Arise! Bookstore August 17 Ann Arbor, MI Midnight Vault Comics (part of Ann Arbor Punk Week!) and in Canada with Jeff Miller of Ghost [...]
We got to get fully rocked by Pierced Arrows last night in SF and now we are ready to head out on the Black Rainbow summer tour in a couple hours… Here’s all the info I have right now, which mostly, at least, inclukdes the actual CITIES we are supposed to appear in. Keep in [...]
Bucky, Greta and I rolled out our unofficial tribute to Hunt’s Donuts on July 10th at Needles and Pens. There were free donuts and we both read our Hunt’s pieces. Bucky was amazing — so funny. I was honored to be on the bill with him. He read a great piece at the end about [...]
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