• Punk Planet Stops the Presses
    Posted on 30th July 2007

    Punk Planet Stops the Presses

    The independent press lost a publication recently, with the demise of Punk Planet Magazine. An online Eulogy for the magazine reads, “Over the last 80 issues and 13 years, we’ve covered every aspect of the financially independent, emotionally autonomous, free culture we refer to as the underground.” The magazine died when their distributor went [...]

  • Mixing Writers and Artists
    Posted on 26th July 2007

    Mixing Writers and Artists

    A subject I often wonder about — why don’t writers get an education more like an artists’ education?

  • Reading Tonight at Red Emma’s
    Posted on 17th July 2007

    Reading Tonight at Red Emma’s

    Red Emma’s hosts Wred Fright and Crzy Carl Robinson, authors from the Underground Literary Alliance, this evening along with special guest Sean Stewart of Baltimore’s own Thoughtworm zine, reading from their recent publications. Fright is the author of The Pornographic Flabbergasted Emus, a great comedic novel that tells the hilarious story of a garage [...]

  • China Says “Don’t Let The Fat Kids Fall in Love”
    Posted on 16th July 2007

    China Says “Don’t Let The Fat Kids Fall in Love”

    BBC News reports today that China “is changing the way it runs compulsory dance classes, introduced to tackle child obesity, because parents fear their children may fall in love.” God forbid the fat kids should find a dance partner!