This Saturday Dec. 11th in Portland Virginia and Emily will be coordinating the Sparkplug table and selling books at the Indie Lit Roadshow REDEFINE magazine and PILOT BOOKS are teaming up to bring you an afternoon of literary readings, music...
Read moreSparkplug In California this Weekend.
Sparkplug’ll be traveling to the South to got to two shows around the Bay Area. On Saturday Dec. 11th in Berkeley, CA the East Bay Alternative Press Book Fair will be going from 10am-4pm at the Berkeley City College (2050 Center St. in...
Read moreThis Weekend In Seattle: Chris Cilla IN THE HOUSE Zak Sally crashes into a swamp!
Dec. 11th 6-9pm: Zak Sally, Jason T. Miles, Max Clottfelter, Chris Cilla and more will be at the Fantagraphics Bookstore in Seattle, Wa for the Medieval Thinkers show and 4th anniversary of the Bookstore. Mark your social calendars in indelible...
Read more‘Sound Sculptor’ Susan Philipsz wins Turner Prize
2010 really is the year sound art broke. I predict that Susan Philipsz will be the ‘next Susan Boyle’; and her sales of Scottish folksong CDs will make that £25,000 Turner prize money look like small change. Currently her recordings...
Read moreAdult Swim’s Video for Flying Lotus’ Zodiac Sh!t
Hey, I like it. Cosmogramma deserved to get nods on every Grammy they makes. You can find Flying Lotus on thee Twitter, thee MySpaceship and on his own site.
Read moreJason Martin TONIGHT at The Gershwin Hotel
John Torreano Variety Hour – Tuesday December 7th, 8pm, $10 John Torreano was last seen at the Gershwin in February 2000 with his show Sex, Love, Art and Things In-Between. He is back as monologist and MC for the show on December 7, in the Large...
Read moreMusic Monday: Nuisance – Attractive Nuisance demo
It’s not a big secret that I am a huge fan of Nuisance. I booked them twice for shows in Western Massachusetts. Once at a spectacularly disastrous warehouse show in Florence (at the Arts & Industry building, now home to Ecstatic...
Read moreFlesh and Bone on Graphic Novel Reporter’s 2010 Favorites
Scroll down to see a cool recommendation for Julia Gfrörer’s Flesh & Bone by Peter Gutierrez: http://graphicnovelreporter.com/content/gnrs-2010-favorites-best-list
Read moreKaty Ellis O’Brien new stuff online!
Sparkplug favorite Katy Ellis O’Brien has updated her site: “Rejoice! The new trumpetflower.net is here, with lots of new artwork. Most notably, “The Kilkenny Cats” is now available online in its complete form! If you...
Read moreJason Miles in the News
From Sparkplug comrade Jason T. Miles comes much news: please check out the following links as i think you might find them interesting the FIRST LINK is an profanity hill update and announcement for the medieval thinkers artshow i’ve been...
Read moreRed Bat Press for X-mas
From our buddy Carye: Hello friends! Just a little note to let you know about to Holiday sales I’m in the next two weekends and to announce my Red Bat Press’s hand printed 2011 Calendar Cards. Online at...
Read moreBrooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival
Virginia Paine will be running the Sparkplug table at the Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival tomorrow, Saturday the 4th. The Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival is a one-day festival of cartoon and graphic art featuring artists and...
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