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Ali Liebegott’s Cha-Ching! Exposes the Truth Behind Gambling and Obsession

Elizabeth Coleman — Fri, 03 May 2013 04:02:09 +0000

Well-known for past works like The Beautifully Worthless and The IHOP Papers as well as her involvement with the traveling performance group, Sister Spit, Ali Liebegott tackles big themes in Cha-Ching! including depression, addiction, identity, self-sabotage and basically how sometimes it is f-ing hard just to get out of bed in the morning and stare [&hellip

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Ode to a Coffee Shop

Taylor Majewski — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 05:51:48 +0000

This is a personal essay to compliment my painting series: Ode to a Coffee Shop. The paintings were inspired by my daily trips to Dave’s Coffee, located in Charlestown, Rhode Island. Some of the paintings were featured in UCLA’s New Wight Gallery in a student exhibition. The small ding of the jingle bell attached to [&hellip

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We get poemcrazy with Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge

Elizabeth Coleman — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 05:17:59 +0000

Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge is obsessed with words. Author of poemcrazy: freeing your life with words, which is currently in its 24th printing, Wooldridge works with adults, teachers and at-risk youth both privately and through the California Poets in Schools program. Her workshop are designed to cultivate artistic expression, and have changed the lives of countless [&hellip

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Fiction: Cygnet Lake by Melanie Bell

Melanie Bell — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 00:40:25 +0000

“The old man spoke of her.” Lily’s fingers tugged at my sleeve. “Huh?” I blinked, clutching my World History textbook. How dare my odd roommate come storming in when the Mayans had just begun their first temple! “Spoke of who?” “The ghost, of course,” Lily said. “I found him in the library after French class, [&hellip

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Feature: The Erotic Reading Circle

Setsu Uzume — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 21:49:22 +0000

One thing you can say about San Francisco is that it is a sex-positive city. I once bought a dozen red roses from my local florist and he reminded me not to scatter petals across white sheets because they will stain. I got the same candor at the Erotic Reading Circle, a monthly writers’ group [&hellip

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Interview with Poet erica lewis

Alicia Coombes — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 20:55:30 +0000

Poet erica lewis’ third publication, murmur in the inventory, was released this month. murmur in the inventory is lewis’ first published book project that isn’t part of a collaboration with an artist and does not contain a visual arts pairing, letting the poetry stand alone in a way that it has not before. A graduate of Northwestern [&hellip

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Interview with Shiloh Sophia McCloud, founder of Cosmic Cowgirls

Alicia Coombes — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 23:24:00 +0000

Shiloh Sophia McCloud has dedicated nearly two decades of her life to practicing and sharing the creative arts. Six years ago, she founded Cosmic Cowgirls, INK – a multi-faceted woman-owned company consisting of a magazine, university and publishing house. McCloud has worked with tens of thousands of women online and in person through interactive journals, [&hellip

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Woman of the Week: Edith Zimmerman

Taylor Majewski — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 00:40:21 +0000

In an uncertain global economy in which salaried employment and benefits are hard to come by, millennials have had to get creative with their careers, turning to independent web-based projects and social media sites like Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr to invent their own jobs. Writer Edith Zimmerman is no exception to that movement. Along with [&hellip

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Feature: Ellen Forney’s Creativity and Crisis in Marbles

Julie Davis — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 01:00:35 +0000

At a book signing event held at the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco, cartoonist Ellen Forney began with a reading from her book, Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me, describing her experience with bipolar disorder. In the first chapter, Forney talks about getting a tattoo on her back, using vivid, sensory language. “I was [&hellip

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Interview with Shaenon Garrity

Julie Davis — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 07:59:48 +0000

Shaenon Garrity is one of the great success stories in the world of webcomics. Her most popular strips — Narbonic, which ran from 2000 to 2006, and Skin Horse, which is still running — are dailies, the sort of comics that newspapers used to carry, with a new story each weekday. In short, she’s drawn [&hellip

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