from the local folks who bring us the mags Lumpen and Proximity…….
Matériel Magazine and Pr Launch Party and fundraiser for Version Festival
“Please come and help us raise funds to pay for Version>09 Immodest Proposals. We will be giving to everyone who attends a complementary copy of our new publishing projects, Matériel and the new Pr poster/newsletter.
We will be hosting an evening of performances and displaying pages from Matériel on the gallery walls. Musical performances by Casual Encounter , Caw! Caw! (not cawcaw) and a few secret super special guest stars.
Pr is Proximity’s in-between issues newsletter and art poster featuring articles interviews reviews a calendar and art work.
Matériel is an oversized broadside newsprint publication that’s a collection of the best/brightest designers/illustrators/photographers work we can find – creating a showcase for their submitted work.”
Friday, March 21, 2009, 8pm
Co-Prosperity Sphere
3219 S Morgan St
$10 Suggested Donation.
for more on Proximity, click here
for more on Version Fest, click here
Blackness…Finally Forgivable?
from the Stop Smiling Blog….
A Pugilist’s Pardon, Once Unforgivable
Posted on: April 1, 2009 at 1:48 pm // MARGINALIA
Really? What’s McCain’s motivation? I remember an audio piece produced by my friend Kabuika for Vocalo.org in which an eleven year old kid asks Black Journalists if they think McCain is afraid of Black People (after McCain declined an invite to a Conference of Black Journalists in 2008).
McCain, Afraid of Black People? by Kabuika
So, what is McCain’s Motivation for pushing to pardon somebody who’s been dead sixty-0dd years? Like the classic Tootsie Pop commercial, the world may never know…
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