A Whale Of A Deal By Joshua Ware Published Issue 128, August 2024 Best of Birdy, Originally Published in Issue 035, November 2016 Joshua Ware is an artist and writer who was born in Cleveland, OH. His artwork has shown both nationally and internationally with solo shows at Leon Gallery, Understudy, Platte Forum, and GEORGIA. […]
By Gray Winsler Art by DS Thornburg Published Issue 127, July 2024 Best of Birdy, Originally Published in Issue 103, July 2022 “Can we go home now?” Penelope asked her father. Georg shook his head. “Not ‘till we catch something for your mother.” “But it’s been hours …” she moaned, plopping her head down to
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La Vie En Sharke or My Bukowski Year By Zac Dunn Art by Chris Austin Published Issue 127, July 2024 The tide sweeping into the slips just east of my ears is always a train ride away. After a lifetime stuck in a quagmire of LIES and BROKEN TOOLS used to build SHANTIES I hocked
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By Krysti Joméi Published Issue 127, July 2024 Cooling by Chaffee Park and getting kinda funky, Denver’s Sunnyside neighborhood bar, restaurant, live music/comedy venue and arcade, Monkey Barrel, has been named a Denver Legacy Business, the City’s new program to recognize and support longstanding, independent brick-and-mortars that have contributed to community character. Recognizing the challenges
Published Issue 127, July 2024 Veronica, did the gate just open? Um … yeah, I guess it did. Weird. You know I’m cleaning the tank right now? I did know that. I can see you. And you know there’s a great white shark in tank B? No, Vijay, I’m completely unaware of the animal that’s
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DEVO 2 By Rob Ginsberg (D.A.S.A.) Published in Issue 127, July 2024 When man first walked on the moon I crawled out on planet Earth, where I decided to live my life. From the beginning I was out of sync with everything around me. The Cold War those was prevailing all around. I soon became
With A Fatalistic Sigh And A Shrug Of Resignation, I Attempt To Continue This Charade Without Being So Damned Dramatic All The Time By Brian Polk Art by Jason White Published Issue 127, July 2024 One Summer My Roommate Experienced Some Kind Of Spiritual Awakening, So He Gave Away All His Things — Only To
The Creature In 3D By Dave Danzara aka Lost In Time Designs Published Issue 127, July 2024 Albuquerque-based Dave Danzara has spent most of his life creating art. Born and raised in California, Dave won a scholarship to Laguna Art Institute of Southern California in 1994. His influences can be found in pop culture, sci-fi,
Queen City Sounds By Tom Murphy Published Issue 127, July 2024 Bison Bone – 40 Grit Courtney Whitehead’s storytelling on this EP is characteristically cinematic in its evocation of tactile details as they anchor the themes of each song to inner life. All five tracks benefit from an economy of songwriting yet hit like a
On The Beach 2 By Eric Joyner Published in Issue 127, July 2024 About Eric Joyner: I was born in San Mateo, a suburb of San Francisco. My childhood was fairly uneventful, doing the usual things most kids did, reading comics (mostly Mad, Creepy, Eerie and newspaper comic strips), playing sports, and going to school,