Queen City Sounds By Tom Murphy Published Issue 102, June 2022 Bryon Parker – 3 Consecutive Championships Bryon Parker uses an almost processionally repetitive drum beat to frame the narrative of “Alma Mater.” Its tale of the low-aspiration-having virtues celebrated by people who don’t know better, for whom being the captain of the high school […]
By Gray Winsler Art by Eric Joyner Published Issue 102, June 2022 George’s mower hummed across the Sky Line — an elevated park once known as the High Line, but rebranded in the 2040s when it was expanded over all four boroughs (Staten Island having been sold off to New Jersey, a change few New
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Omniscient Mind By Dave Danzara Published Issue 101, May 2022 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, fantasy, film and music. Graphic design and digital
Queen City Sounds By Tom Murphy Published Issue 101, May 2022 ADULT. – Becoming Undone On the surface, this most recent ADULT. album seems the most eclectic and stylistically untogether. But it is unified as a reflection of human civilization fragmenting under pressures born of embracing political and economic systems and habits that are inadequate
Book Club By Hana Zittel Published Issue 101, May 2022 No One is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood (2021) In a follow-up to 2017’s memoir, Priestdaddy, Patricia Lockwood’s first novel is a poetic journey into the absurdity of social media as it clashes against reality. Lockwood’s unnamed narrator is thrust into social media stardom
Travelogues: Wherever you go, there you are! By Carol Thacker Art by Tyler Gross Published Issue 101, May 2022 “Take half the amount of clothes and twice as much money!” my avid traveling father blurted out from the living room as I threw my stuff into my suitcase before embarking on yet another adventure in
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Strings By Jason Heller Art by Jason White Published Issue 101, May 2022 The wound steel buzzes beneath my finger. It’s the G string, the thinnest and highest. I play it way up past the twelfth fret, letting the A and D strings drone open while muting the E string with my thumb, wrapped around
In The Window By Caitlyn Grabenstein Published Issue 101, May 2022 Caitlyn Grabenstein, a.k.a. Cult Class, is a collage artist, sketch artist, and designer out of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She started doing art at a very young age and has pursued it in different forms throughout her life. While working in the music industry and running
From the Postcard Diaries By Mark Mothersbaugh Published Issue 101, May 2022 Mark Mothersbaugh is one of this era’s most unique and prolific composers. Deeply aware of the ability of precise, multi-faceted artistic expression to deliver vital social commentary, he has perpetually challenged and redefined musical and visual boundaries. Mothersbaugh co-founded influential rock group DEVO,
Published Issue 101, May 2022 We’re gonna need a bigger boat. It’ll need to be large enough to accommodate several warring shark deities sitting down to a diplomatic conversation. Might even have to hire the crew from Below Deck to offer veneration and preparation of some less-than-common foods. One of them may have to become
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