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The Poetry Jukebox
July 13, 2016The Poetry Jukebox, by Jorge Clar I remember the day I realized I wanted to write poetry. I was waiting for my dad, lying on the hood of our family car, a Ford Torino 500, at the end of my junior year of high school. Looking through the branches of a lemon tree at the sky above,…
ContinuedTo Be Young and “Hep” in New York City
May 31, 2016Interview with Jane Friedman, Founder of Howl! Happening: An Arturo Vega Project What was it like growing up as kid in New York City in the Beat era? It was through the Beats that I knew that I wanted to be poet, to be a part of this generation that protested, shouted, and rebelled against the…
ContinuedFull Moon Show: Dixon Place Presents Tom Murrin Performance Award
May 19, 2016A Tom Murrin/Alien Comic Invention Sunday, May 22, 2016 / 4 PM / Free Performances by Agosto Machado, Nora Burns, Pedro J. Rosado Jr., Miss Joan Marie Moossy, Jacqueline Zahora, Patricia Sullivan, Monstah Black, Black-Eyed Susan, Joe E. Jeffries, Nicky Paraiso, Yackez, and introducing Jasper Shorty Howl! Happening’s monthly Full Moon Performance Series hosts Dixon…
ContinuedSparkle Street Social & Athletic Club
May 10, 2016In what is seen, there should be just the seen; In what is heard, there should be just the heard; In what is sensed, there should be just the sensed; In what is thought, there should be just the thought. —Buddhist saying DeCapite, Barron, and Blagg are all connoisseurs of the street. This evening is…
ContinuedJACKIE, ETHYL…ETHYL, JACKIE by Dan Cameron for When Jackie Met Ethyl
May 3, 2016JACKIE, ETHYL…ETHYL, JACKIE Someday I’d like to host an intimate tea party where the only guests would be Jackie Curtis and Ethyl Eichelberger. Partly because I’m in awe of them, and partly because they’re both long dead, I’m sure I’d be far too nervous to whip up anything foodwise, so it’d have to be a…
ContinuedJeffrey Wengrofsky: Dreaming is Free
April 29, 2016Join Howl! tonight (4/29) as we welcome Jeffrey Wengrofsky for the last of his three-part residency “Dreaming is Free,” an evening of psychedelic delights. The night begins with a screening of Wengrofsky’s short film “Marti Domination in the Life of Dreams,” a meditation on how the cinematic experience is akin to dreaming featuring Marti Domination (Cremaster I,…
ContinuedWhen Jackie Met Ethyl, Curated by Dan Cameron
April 26, 2016This exhibition considers the cultural and historical impact of Jackie Curtis (1947-1985) and Ethyl Eichelberger (1945-1990) two of the most influential figures from the East Village’s heyday as a cauldron of transgressive gender-twisting performance. Although both came from the same generation and shared an overlapping support base, an instinctive feminist outlook, and a deep…
ContinuedFull Moon Show! Carmelita Tropicana Performance & Screening of Uzi Parnes short film, World Peace
April 21, 2016Spend your lunch break with the lunatic fringe! Outside, on the sidewalk, in front of Howl! Happening on Friday April 22nd at 2pm, experience the nutty wonderment that was the essence of Tom Murrin, our beloved Alien Comic. The Inimitable Camelita Tropicana performs. Tropicana (a.k.a. Alina Troyano) is a performance artist, playwright, and actor. Troyano…
ContinuedThe Revolution Will Have its Sky
April 14, 2016Veils of mirrors in tatters, all the shattered bits inside a tiny diamond. The revolution will have its sky. Stripes and gold fringes demand a whore queen trick. If you fasten a collection of decorations to a uniform you can give last orders to last men. The eternal song can prolong the funeral trick but…
ContinuedExcerpt from Ruined for Life!: A novel by Mike DeCapite
April 12, 2016Flo was always throwing me out. The last time she told me to get out and stay out of our apartment on Grand Street, in Brooklyn, I had keys to Richard’s place in the city. She acted like she’d been tricked. She accused me of contriving to be thrown out. I took a brown bag…
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