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Free Range Poetry at Quimby’s!
Free Range Poetry at Quimby’s!
Friday, October 19th, 7:00 PM
FREE
Join slam poets Big Poppa E and Erin Livingston as the stop in at Quimby’s as part of their national tour. A tour that began this summer when Big Poppa E and Erin quit their jobs, packed up their lives, and left Austin to travel and perform poetry indefinitely.Big Poppa E is a spoken word artist and three-time HBO Def Poet who melds rhythmic verse, stand-up comedy, and dramatic monologue into a crowd-pleasing display of verbal fireworks fueled by the energy of hip-hop, punk rock, and Emo. His hilarious skewering of pop culture and painfully beautiful explorations of relationships have led to appearances on BET, NPR, and CBS’s 60 Minutes and have made him one of the most recognized names in the National Poetry Slam community.
Big Poppa E is based in Austin, TX, and tours the country performing his work in universities, high schools, coffeehouses, bars, and art spaces. BPE dedicates all his live performances to every kid in America who’s ever slammed poetry or competed in a speech tournament using poetry or simply written their own words down in a tattered notebook for only themselves to see. For more info visit www.brokenword.org
Erin Livingston holds bare the world as she sees it through eyes that never close and a heart that doesn’t know when to shut up. A passionate optimist & budding feminist Erin’s performance examines The Big Issues propelling audiences though forceful character driven storytelling set in gut wrenching & hilariously impossible everyday situations.
Erin is a two time Austin Ego’s Slam team finalist in as many years on the scene. Her fresh voice and unapologetic presence make for dynamic & unpredictable performances as she continues to grow as a writer, performer, and believer in leaving things better than she found them.
Visit the tour page for at http://www.myspace.com/freerangepoetry
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Just added: Jonathan Katz, Star and co-creator of Dr. Katz: Professional Therapist at Quimby's
Jonathan Katz is scheduled for this rare in-store appearance at Quimby’s on Tuesday, September 25th at 7:00pm, and he will be autographing copies of his new CD Caffeinated! We know it’s short notice but we just couldn’t say no to such an awesome event!
The co-creator and star of Comedy Central’s wildly popular “Dr. Katz: Professional Therapist” returns to his stand-up comedy roots with the long overdue release of his first ever CD. Fans of Dr. Katz will recognize the clever and quiet yet subversive voice of the world’s most famous animated shrink as he tailors comedy for the live stage. Caffeinated also includes outrageous phone-in segments Katz popularized on NPR’s The Next Big Thing along with original music never heard away from the concert stage. Katz fans have had to sample his comedy in small doses. Finally, Caffeinated delivers the many facets of this man’s remarkable comedy in an easy to swallow once-a-day treatment.
Author, producer, actor, comedian and musician, Jonathan Katz is one of the entertainment industry’s most original and versatile creative personalities. He co-created and starred in the hit animated series, “Dr. Katz: Professional Therapist,” which, during its six seasons on Comedy Central, was credited with branding that network as the home for sophisticated, smartly stupid humor. As an actor, Katz has won praise for roles in the films Daddy Day Care with Eddie Murphy (“excruciatingly funny”), the David Mamet films State and Main, Things Change, and The Spanish Prisoner, and with Janeane Garofalo in The Independent. He co-wrote Mamet’s critically acclaimed House of Games. In the last several years, Katz has created and produced innovative programming across different media platforms, including “Raising Dad” for the WB, and the animated television pilot, “Say Uncle” in which he co-starred with Lisa Kudrow for Disney and Fox. Originally a musician and songwriter, Katz fronted a rhythm and blues group called Katz and Jammers before serving as the musical director for Robin Williams’ 1979 stand-up tour. In 1981 he started working solo, doing a cabaret act that was mostly musical, and in between songs he began to lay the groundwork for his stand-up act. A native New Yorker, Jonathan moved to Boston twenty years ago and currently resides in Newton, Massachusetts with his wife and two daughters. In 1997 Jonathan was diagnosed with MS. Weeks later he found out what those two letters represent (multiple sclerosis). For the last few years he has talked publicly about how this illness has impacted his life, and finds sharing his situation with others very enriching. “Life goes on with the disease. I use comedy to cope. In fact I teach a course called “Coping with Comedians who use Comedy to Cope.”
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Jonathan Katz, star and co-creator of "Dr. Katz: Professional Therapist" at Quimby's!
Jonathan Katz is scheduled for this rare in-store appearance at Quimby’s Tuesday, September 25th at 7:00pm, and he will be autographing copies of his new CD “Caffeinated”! We know it’s short notice but we just couldn’t say no to such an awesome event!
The co-creator and star of Comedy Central’s wildly popular Dr. Katz: Professional Therapist returns to his stand-up comedy roots with the long overdue release of his first ever CD. Fans of Dr. Katz will recognize the clever and quiet yet subversive voice of the world’s most famous animated shrink as he tailors comedy for the live stage. Caffeinated also includes outrageous phone-in segments Katz popularized on NPR’s The Next Big Thing along with original music never heard away from the concert stage. Katz fans have had to sample his comedy in small doses. Finally, Caffeinated delivers the many facets of this man’s remarkable comedy in an easy to swallow once-a-day treatment.
Author, producer, actor, comedian and musician, Jonathan Katz is one of the entertainment industry’s most original and versatile creative personalities. He co-created and starred in the hit animated series, “Dr. Katz: Professional Therapist,” which, during its six seasons on Comedy Central, was credited with branding that network as the home for sophisticated, smartly stupid humor. As an actor, Katz has won praise for roles in the films Daddy Day Care with Eddie Murphy(“excruciatingly funny”), the David Mametfilms State and Main, Things Change, and The Spanish Prisoner, and with Janeane Garofaloin The Independent. He co-wrote Mamet’s critically acclaimed House of Games. In the last several years, Katz has created and produced innovative programming across different media platforms, including “Raising Dad” for the WB, and the animated television pilot, “Say Uncle” in which he co-starred with Lisa Kudrowfor Disneyand Fox. Originally a musician and songwriter, Katz fronted a rhythm and blues group called Katz and Jammersbefore serving as the musical director for Robin Williams’1979 stand-up tour. In 1981 he started working solo, doing a cabaret act that was mostly musical, and in between songs he began to lay the groundwork for his stand-up act. A native New Yorker, Jonathan moved to Boston twenty years ago and currently resides in Newton, Massachusetts with his wife and two daughters. In 1997 Jonathan was diagnosed with MS. Weeks later he found out what those two letters represent (multiple sclerosis). For the last few years he has talked publicly about how this illness has impacted his life, and finds sharing his situation with others very enriching. “Life goes on with the disease. I use comedy to cope. In fact I teach a course called “Coping with Comedians who use Comedy to Cope.”
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Works Cited Photo Funnies at Quimby’s!
Works Cited Photo Funnies at Quimby’s!
Thursday, October 18th, 7:00 PM
FREECome visit the Works Cited Photo Studio. Have your photo taken, and then defaced, middle school-style by the creators of Works Cited. During the hour, your photo, along with all your friends’ photos, will be arranged and compiled in a mini-yearbook of all the Quimby’s faithful. The end result will be a portrait of yourself for you to take home, fully defaced in thick ink lines and moderately inappropriate captions. Every entry will be compied into an online yearbook posted on the Eye Rocket website.
Artist zine WORKS CITED #1 By Zach Huelsing and Matt Kessler is limited to 300 copies. Each issue features a hand-drawn cover. Inside the zine, you’ll find a collection of classroom items you might find at an actual school. Witness the antagonism of a 3rd grade rad dude. Peek into a young girl’s diary. Check out a blue book from exam day, test questions included. And learn about your masculinity in the accomplished essay, The Importance of Memory in the Appreciation of Culture and History and the Necessity of this Tie to the Past as a Bridge to the Future .Each copy is numbered.
Eye Rocket is an independent publishing house that operates out of Champaign, Illinois. With a focus on zines, comics, books and everything inbetween, Check out the website for more info: www.eyerocketbooks.com
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Quimby’s Top Ten Best Sellers For the Week of Sep 9th – Sep 15th, 2007
2. FOUND Magazine #5 $5.00
3. Wholphin #4 $19.954. Phonebook 2007 2008 Annual Directory for Alternative Artspaces (Green Lantern) $10.00
6. Butt #20 Fantastic Magazine for Homosexuals $9.90
7. Maximumrocknroll #292 $4.009. Muerte by Mike Giant (Drago) $25.00
10. Urban Bikers Tricks & Tips by Mr. Bike Dave Glowacz (Wordspace) $14.95 -
New Stuff 9/15/07
Renegade Craft Fair is going on down on Division, There is an Awesome art show by Jen Stark at Heaven Gallery and there is tons of new stuff on the shelves. You have no excuse to avoid a trip to the crotch of Wicker Park this weekend!
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Works Cited review
Over at the Fantagraphics‘ Flog! blog, Eric Reynolds posts a great review of Works Cited by Zach Huelsing and Matt Kessler of Eye Rocket Books:
WRIGHT PREPARATORY ACADEMY by various – I don’t know who did this (a collective of artists, it seems), or where you can get it, so this might be the most unhelpful web recommendation since hyperlinks were invented. But it’s great, so there! More zine than comics, this is a screenprinted manilla envelope filled with random paper detrius from a (presumably) fictional high school, including permanent student records, diary entries, confiscated notes, etc. Funny stuff, and there is a narrative thread that weaves through some of the elements that makes it greater than the sum of its parts. There was one narrative trick in particular which involved reading two files in a particular order, and I’m not quite sure how the creators could be assured they would be read in the proper order, but in my case they were and the payoff was laugh-out-loud hilarious and I’m totally impressed. “
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Sexy Strangers = Great Lit
WOW PR working overtime!
We got this in the mail last week. Great to see the big publishers are all up on “zines” & “blogs” and making stuff slutty!
Books Gone Wild!!!
P.S. This is real, I could not make this type of copy up!…….unless you paid me three figures and gave me a corner office.
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John Porcellino at Quimby’s!
John Porcellino at Quimby’s!
Friday, October 12th, 7:00 PM
FREEJoin John Porcellino for a multimedia presentation about strips from the from his book “King-Cat Classix.” John will also read from King-Cat comics, Debut the brand new King-Cat Comics #68, and be glad to sign any books or comics people might have.
John Porcellino was born in Chicago, in 1968. He began writing and drawing at an early age, compiling his work into small, handmade booklets. His first photocopied “zine” was produced in 1982, at the age of 14, and he began his current series, King-Cat Comics and Stories, in 1989. Since then, King-Cat has been his predominant means of expression. Book collections of John’s work include: “Diary of A Mosquito Abatement Man”, “Perfect Example” and “King-Cat Classix”.
Porcellino currently lives in Denver, CO with his wife Misun.
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Top 10 Best Sellers for Quimby's For the Week of Sep 2nd-Sep 8th, 2007
1. Bizarre #127 Sep 07 $8.75
2. Juxtapoz #80 Sep 07 $4.99
3. FOUND Magazine #5 $5.00
4. ReadyMade #30 $4.99
5. Maximumrocknroll #292 $4.00
6. VenusZine #33 $4.50
7. Wholphin #4 $19.95
8. Galactic Zoo Dossier #7 $16.98
9. CrapHound #6 $12.00
10. Female Serial Killers by Peter Vronsky $16.00 (Penguin)