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A Sneak Peek At Nobody Told Me
Amanda Maxwell's Nobody Told Me There'd Be Days Like These is a collection of short stories for anyone who is, or remembers what it was like to be young.
It's Our Lucky Day
We were featured in an article about Chicago's fashion-art hybrid stores in the June issue of Lucky Magazine! Shop Lucky's picks: A-Z Collection Mason Bag Slow and Steady Wins the Race Loop Scarf [Montgomery Perry Smith available in store]
Natalie James Gets Linked In
Natalie being an ingénue. Astrology Zone: I need to know what my future holds so I visit Astrology Zone when I cannot make it to my psychic. This lady is legit and never wrong. Garance Doré: You thought the Sartorialist was amazing? Garance Doré in addition to capturing amazing photos also sketches the most lovely images. Oh yeah and she is lovers with the aforementioned. La Garçonne: This shop has all the clothes you need and featured on an incredibly designed page. Truly perfect. Jezebel: Possibly the best site on the internet if you are into crushing the patriarchy while looking good and gossiping about celebrities. Karla's Closet: Awesome haircut. Check. Latina. Check. A blogger who isn't rail thin or looking demurely into the camera. Truly a daring girl. NY Mag Blogs: Vulture. The Cut. Daily Intel. The funniest people in New York are possibly writing all of these blogs. The Pipeline: Provides all the fashion news I want to read and with lots of wit. Always has me ahead of the fashion curve. [Natalie James is the brains/beauty behind Fashion Intel, a lifestyle blog for the fashionable intellectual.]
Have You Seen This? Muddy Treads by Peter Sutherland
There was a large chunk of land behind my junior high school known as “The Hills.” It was an unclaimed no man's land, where you could do whatever you wanted. There were strange half built sheds, bags of lawn clippings, some illegally dumped furniture, and the occasional dead animal. Locals would go there to drink beer, burn stuff for fun, and drive four wheelers on the hills, some of which were steep and untracked. There were arched tracks left behind by motorcyclists on the hillsides where they had attempted to ride over the highest point (usually a stump). There was a muddy pond and twisted-up sage brush; all which was hidden from civilization. The edge of the land was the closest possible point to the high school where the kids could smoke. It was also the only place for them to go if they had skipped class and didn't own a car. One day I was back there after school riding my bike (I was 12) and I saw a group of about eight stoners from the high school. They had discovered an abandoned jeep! They pushed it up a massive dirt hill and were taking joy rides in it. It was bouncing over rocks at high speeds and kicking up dust without the sound of an engine. It was probably the most unsafe operation I had ever seen in my life but I could see the expressions of pure joy on their faces. It's one of my favorite memories from that time and somehow everyone survived. I like empty plots of land like that one. There is always something messed up about them that keeps them from being developed and there's a special kind of freedom that allows for stoners to go four wheeling in abandoned jeeps. The entire state of Alaska feels like a more pristine, grown-up version of one of those areas and everything about it is just a bit too rugged and crazy for the masses. Many of the photos in this book were taken in Alaska. The others are from California, Colorado, Utah, and Vermont. Peter Sutherland
Zinester's Guide To NYC
New Yorkers be sure to check this out and support D.I.Y. culture, and if you happen to make zines it's super cheap to participate! NYCZINEFEST.org
Not-That-Early Warning
Kansas City's Fortuning and Baby Birds Don't Drink Milk will be doing an in-store performance at Golden Age on Sunday, June 7 at 1pm. Fortuning is a doo-wop inspired punk band, while BBDDM is minimal, fuzzy, gazed-out rock. HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE!
Real Normal
Our favorite art blogging crew, Real Normal, have an exhibition opening tonight in Wicker Park. OPENING: Saturday, May 23, 2009, 6 - 10 pm at Scott Projects, 1542 N Milwaukee Ave #3 (map), Chicago IL USA 60622 May 23 @ Scott Projects New works by Arend deGruyter-Helfer, Aylor Brown, Bailey Salisbury and Carson Fisk-Vittori. Before you arrive, check to see if your phone is compatible with Q-R code reader, and download a free application here.
Megan Plunkett Hits The Links
Thanx and love to Clare for the Australian link tip off! LOCALZ ONLY: http://www.wavewatch.com/Live-Surf-Cams-Region.php?CamID=23&RegionID=10 Then time for an endless (cute)break: http://www.youtube.com/user/cutebreak Speaking of cutie breaks, I only watch movies about teen hotties: http://www.luutit.com/movies/lords-of-dogtown Just in case that last link got your screen a little dirty: http://sc1.ithinkiknowitall.com/screenclean.swf My fave is the celeb gossip: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ All the best tips from across the interweb: http://www.hanne-mugaas.com/artblog/ Kris (of Paperback Magazine) and I made a resolution that in 2k9 we needed to make more Australian friends and this blog just confirms that to be a good goal (thanx and love to Clare, see photo, for this link tip off!): http://jahjahsphinx.blogspot.com/ and it's a fucking rainbow!!: http://www.afuckingrainbow.com/ L.A. radio has always been particularly shitty and maybe that's why I like it so much !!!!!: http://fromthegarage.blogspot.com/ L.A. cats however...: http://thecatorialist.blogspot.com/ [Megan Plunkett is an artist and Publisher/ Editor of the NY-based Kingsboro Press, which is available in store. Megan will be doing an installation for Golden Age in July, be sure to watch out for it.]
The Death of Cadaver Corpse
A corpse by Eddie Martinez, Justin B. Williams, and Derek Aylward. Tomorrow is your last chance to see Cadaver Corpse in the flesh. After that it will be packed up and headed to Space 1026 in Philadelphia! If you can't make it, Leah Reisman gave it a nice review in the Chicago Weekly.
Have You Seen This? New Messages by Andrew Laumann
Andrew Lauman's first monograph is a message, a depiction of youth in it's purest form, no photoshop, no gimmicks, no problems. Hand sewn and hand-bound. Edition of 300.
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