“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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Stephanie Barbé Hammer is an award-winning novelist, short fiction writer, and poet. Her most recent novel is the Foreword Indie recognized magical realist mystery Journey to Merveilleux City (Picture Show Press). Her other titles for Bamboo Dart Press are City Slicker: encounters with the outside and Rescue Plan. A former New Yorker, Stephanie moved to California in 1986 and has …
The debut record by The Disassociation Losing is a Luxury is out March 20th on Shrimper. The Disassociation is Amy Maloof of Falcon Eddy, Author Jonathan Lethem, Sam Sousa and all five members of Refrigerator. Dirty Opera is presenting the first live show by the band at Folk Music Center on Saturday, April 25th. Those …
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An unnamed narrator attends an elite but perennially freezing private girls’ school in New York City during the 1960’s. At first almost invisible, she evolves from seven-year-old witness to fifteen-year-old actor as she navigates a Halloween party, observes a classmate’s sudden hair growth, and encounters two eccentric teachers. Zombies, fetal pigs, Shakespeare, and cigarettes make …
