“Bald men flare like matchsticks, lighting up the caves around them,” Jeff Friedman and Meg Pokrass write in Aurora Baldealis, a collection of fabulist micro stories in which two master storytellers imagine a universe where bald men are mirrors for other bald men, where an angel can break or mend a heart, where the Northern lights …
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Now and Then, Now is the second collection of stories from Margot Hover on Bamboo Dart Press. These stories find joy in the smallest of corners, maybe outside of a Costco, or the most heartbreaking of places where the author triumphs by painting full bodied portraits of those that touched her with minor or major acts …
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Every year Charles Cicerella’s Radio Ether presents a program celebrating Bob Dylan’s birthday featuring covers of Zimmerman recorded exclusively for his show by underground luminaries and dark corner dwellers. This years program is as thoughtfully sequenced and put together as ever by Charles. Check it out here. https://archive.org/details/208525
“Book of Books” by Tara Tavi is a vibrant collection of altered books turned into small worlds that lead the viewer past paintings and into shadowboxes. These are stories nested within stories. The trapdoors are the books themselves, the stories they tell, the images they show and the physicality of a rectangular prism of printed …
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The legendary Souled American have announced their first tour in 35 years and Dirty Opera has secured a show for them in Southern California at Folk Music Center on Saturday, May 16th at 7:30pm (doors at 7pm). This is a an intimate seated event, and tickets are nearly gone. Tickets are only available directly from …
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Losing is a Luxury is the debut album by The Disassociation. Their first ever live show was Presented by Dirty Opera Saturday April 25th at The Folk Music Center in Claremont, California. after noon today. The band played a second show on Sunday at a private Glendale house party at 4pm. From the mysterious expanses …
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The fifty-two new poems in The Enormous Room by painter and poet Richard Brown Lethem were written during the last two years as the author re-settled in Northern Maine after his Covid hiatus in Southern California.This collection documents that transition, in particular, the radical quality of color in nature as an emotionally charged element as well as …
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At the begin of the year Bamboo Dart Press released Peter Wortsman’s The Laboratory of Time book of cut up poetry which has garnered praise from more corners than there are around the entirety of yer town. Now, that book has come to life as a 31 minute piece of music employing the poems from …
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Why is everyone all smiles in this combined photo? Because we need some joy in our lives. Mike Watt, he gets the joke and the cut of this bands jib. Click on the link below to hear Members of The Disassociation Sam Sousa, Jonathan Lethem & Dennis Callaci do the back and forth with Watt. …
The Disassociation is a group made up of Amy Maloof of the band Falcon Eddy, author/bassist Jonathan Lethem, all five members of Refrigerator, and artist/musician Sam Sousa. Their first record is called Losing Is A Luxury. Check out the second song/video from the album Take it all Away that has just premiered on Magnet. The …
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