Sarah Browning, director of Split This Rock and DC Poets Against the War, blogs about the P&W–supported Split This Rock Festival in Washington, D.C. What is a poet to do? The world seems to be exploding around us: The earth is warming at an alarming rate; the right wing attacking the basic human rights of women, LGBT people, and people of color; the rich trying to buy elections; and so many Americans and others around the world suffering from poverty, violence, ...

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SHALOM NEUMAN, UNHOLY COMMUNION, 1999 Fusion artwork A reading @ Lambert Fine Arts Saturday, February 25th, 2012 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM Hosted by Jim Feast with:  Steve Dalachinsky • Yuko Otomo • Thad Rutkowski Carol Wierzbicki • John Farris • Bonny Finberg • Carl Watson Jill Rapaport • Joe Maynard • Tsaurah Litzky • Rob Hardin Anna Mockler • Ron Kolm • Chavisa Woods • Mike Topp Susan Scutti • Tom Savage • Shalom • Michael Carter

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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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