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Poems From Buchenwald Illuminate a Living Hellnew
Presented here in more than 50 bone-shaking adaptations by poet Fanny Howe, the devastating early works by sisters Henia and Ilona Karmel, survivors of the German concentration camp Buchenwald, are so harrowing I could read only a few at a time.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Ari Messer |
10-31-2007 |
Poetry
Peter Kuper Has Self-Aware Flashbacksnew
With his unnervingly honest new graphic novel, Stop Forgetting to Remember, New York–based master illustrator Kuper turns in a devastating rendering of his city as it passes the turn of the century — and of a Cheshire cartoonist and his past adolescent meanderings.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Ari Messer |
09-12-2007 |
Fiction
Precious Little Lifenew
Bryan Lee O'Malley's Scott Pilgrim comic books are postmanga and ready to rock.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Ari Messer |
03-28-2007 |
Art
Tags: visual arts
Cats Have Nine Livesnew
Sebadoh have at least three.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Ari Messer |
02-21-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Sebadoh
Believe the Buzznew
The Makes Nice lick freakbeat candy wrappers for the benefit of all.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Ari Messer |
02-07-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Makes Nice
Picturing the Voidnew
Zak Smith illustrates Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow in this new book.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Ari Messer |
11-29-2006 |
Art
Tags: visual arts
Come In From the Coldnew
Michael Talbott and the Wolfkings howl slowly and sweetly.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Ari Messer |
04-20-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Be Here Meownew
We chase the tale of urban folksters Margot and the Nuclear So and So's.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Ari Messer |
04-12-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Home Alone and Hauntednew
House Arrest is the kind of album a high school music geek would make if he could step outside of himself.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Ari Messer |
02-08-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Ariel Pink, House Arrest
Singles Going Steadynew
California's Isota Records feeds the vinyl evolution.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Ari Messer |
01-06-2006 |
Music
