Arts Bombast: No Wave Film
Gallery 98 just opened an online exhibition of photographs, posters, and other ephemera from No Wave film. The exhibition features rare materials from the films of Amos Poe, Beth B … Continue reading
Arts Bombast: La Pocha Nostra
Aliados: You may (or may not) have noticed that my posting on Ribbon Around a Bomb has decreased lately. The reason is a very exciting one indeed. I recently accepted … Continue reading
Arts Bombast: Ruth Asawa
The first time I saw Ruth Asawa‘s work was about a week after I moved from New Mexico to San Francisco, in a hallway (not a gallery) at the de … Continue reading
Lit Bombast: The Need to Feed
Lydia Lunch performs, utters, radiates, and yes, consumes intensity. Whether it’s in the form of screeching vocals, convulsive stage antics, or in this case, vigorous flavors, everything the woman does is … Continue reading
In the Mood For… Twin Peaks, Part I: A Damn Fine Cup of Coffee
You may or may not be aware of my out-of-control infatuation with the early-’90s television series Twin Peaks. Earlier this week, I took a sort of unplanned escape to the … Continue reading
In the Mood For… Twin Peaks, Part II: Dweller on the Threshold
Friends, what follows is a photo shoot, where vanity, obsession and “for lack of a better term… magic” meet. Captured in the towns of North Bend and Snoqualmie, Washington, this … Continue reading
RAAB Radio #41: Johnny, Are You Queer? + #42: Getting Nowhere Fast
Two delightfully theme-y new Ribbon Around a Bomb podcasts are available for download! [Tribe 8] Edition 41: Johnny, Are You Queer? is our “very gay episode” of RAAB Radio, and … Continue reading
Arts Bombast: Walter de Maria’s Lightning Field
It’s pretty deplorable: despite the fact that I LIVED in rural New Mexico, not even 100 miles north of Quemado, the entire time that I was there I never made … Continue reading
Noisegasm: Yanka Dyagileva
It’s not very often that we feature folk singers here on Ribbon Around a Bomb. Don’t worry guys, I’m not gonna go all Joni Mitchell on your ass anytime soon, … Continue reading
Arts Bombast: Beyond Belief at CJM
When was the last time that you visited an art exhibition, and really, really gave yourself permission to experience the art (and perhaps experience transcendence) with abandon? If it’s been … Continue reading
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