Summer 2007
In This Issue

City Slang

The True Story of the Kent Tekulve (All-Girl) Fan Club
Christine Ferguson recalls her days as Teke’s #1 fan

Counter Culture: Attack of the Red Hat Society
Our mall correspondent braves his most bizarre encounter yet – old ladies!
by Adam Matcho

Local Voyeur
This issue our Local goes way out west with Zach Ledbetter

An Extremely Abridged History Of Lawrenceville:
Lawrenceville Arsenal Explosion Part 2
A Comic by Paulette Poullet

Yinzer Gourmet
The folks from Cake Train, oddly enough, have a recipe for green beans…but not cake?

A Wrestling Portfolio
John Schulman curates an exhibition of high school wrestling photographs
with an illustration by Tim Brown

SpottieOttieDopalicious Reflections on Cinema
Jonathan Moody relocates to Houston, TX and gets his funk on with Berry Gordy’s Last Dragon

Sonic Reducer

My Father’s Rock’n’Roll Fantasy
Daniel Crawford recalls his father, The Kinks, and why real men have big record collections

One Track Mind
Featuring Ceremony b/w Sawdust & Diamond by Scott Silsbe and Claire Donato

A Day In The Life Of David Bowie
Comic by Paulette Poullet

Between The Lines

Some Trees, Peanuts, Two Whiskey Sours, and Fried Rice: Some Unorganized Over-Exaggerations on Charles M. Schulz’s Peanuts, a Hand-Me-Down Array of Poems Related to the New York School of Poets, and Getting High and Reading Paper Rad
Come along on a tour of the wonderful and frightening literary world of Ed Steck

Gatsby’s Bar – Live & Dangerous
The author gives a few readings and tries his best not to faint and fall off the stage

Recovering Richard Hugo: Confessionalism, the Authority of Experience, Trout Fishing, and Politics in 31 Letters and 13 Dreams
Richard Hugo: Confessional Poet? Jonathan Loucks makes the case

Paperback Jukebox
Brendan Kerr, Alicia Barnes, and Scott Silsbe get between the covers

Invisible Cities


Three Poems by Denise Duhamel
Live the Life of a Screwball Heroine, The Tallest Girl and I Play Mystery Date, The Widow

Three Poems by Haines Eason
A Distant City, Near Others, Whiskey Ditch, Lost Bay

I’m a Believer
A short story by Karl Hendricks
with an illustration by Paulette Poullet

Three Poems by Mark Yakich
The Poem as Celebrity, Capital Punishment Poem #78, Presidential Poem

Three Poems by Tom Whalen
The Gentleman Returned, A Scandal, How to Make Love to Green Man

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Additional illustrations by Paulette Poullet throughout