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UNBEARABLES FROM A TO Z INTRODUCTION The UNBEARABLES are a Temporary Autonomous Zone (TAZ) of noir humorists and beer mystics. They first met in 1985 at the Tin Pan Alley Bar in Mid-Town Manhattan to drink and talk about literature, and to bemoan the shitty state of American culture. Peter Lamborn Wilson, one of the original members, got them a reading series at the Life Cafe in the East Village. By this time they were known as "the Unbearable Beatniks of Light" from a ...

An afternoon of action art for the sports culture challenged! Yes! We are back with another fun-filled afternoon of FusionArts action art. Rebel against the sports culture establishment and join us for a good old fashioned Super Bowl Be-In on Super Bowl Sunday, February 5, 2012 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM Hosted by Lambert Fine Arts 57 Stanton Street NYC 10002 212-353-2788 www.lambertfinearts.com Featured are our FusionFriends: The Unbearables, Carrie Beehan, Peter Grzybowski, Brett Zweiman, Kika von Klück and Shawn Butler. Gallery Artwork by SHALOM NEUMAN (with soundtracks by musician/composer Brett Zweiman) & TERRENCIO Exhibition dates January 20 - February ...

Article by Clayton Patterson in the Villager BY CLAYTON PATTERSON | In the mid-1980s I discovered a very active and vital Lower East Side independent underground film scene. In 1985, Leslie Lowe and Jack Waters, both filmmakers, produced a screening series called “Naked Eye Cinema” that concentrated on showing these far-out filmmakers. “Naked Eye Cinema”’s home base was ABC No Rio. I started to document some of the artists connected to this loose collective of filmmakers. One of the people ...

Wednesday, January 25 Bar opens at 7pm / Screening at 7:30pm This documentary about the life, death, and rebirth of Motor City tells its story through haunting images of urban decay and interviews with residents who are reinventing the city’s future. The stunning post-apocalyptic landscape of abandoned skyscrapers, empty streets and crumbling factories stand in stark contrast to past images of a thriving metropolis. Residents describe the transformation they witnessed over their lifetime, and explain how the collapse of industry and infrastructure ...

PICASSO MACHINERY presents: Youmna Chlala (fiction) East of Bowery (multi-media) Heather Green (opera) Robert Lopez (fiction) Tom Rossi (African harp) Youmna Chlala is a writer and an artist born in Beirut and currently based in New York. She is the Founding Editor of Eleven Eleven {1111} Journal of Literature and Art, a recipient of the 2009 Joseph Henry Jackson Award and her writing has appeared in Guernica, MIT Journal for Middle Eastern Studies and XCP: Journal of Cross Cultural Poetics. East of Bowery is a multi-media performance with ...