Eboni Hogan
Eboni Hogan is an award-winning performance poet, author, and teaching artist, who often moonlights as a Vargas girl, albeit a heavily tattooed one. Born in the Bronx to an emcee and a choir girl, Hogan studied at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. She is the 2010 Women of the World Poetry Slam Champion, 2010 Underground Indies Slam Champion, the 2008 Urbana Grand Slam Champion, and a two-time representative of the Nuyorican Slam Team. She has performed and facilitated workshops in over thirty US cities, as well as abroad in Ghana and Germany. She is the author of Grits, a collection of poetry that was nominated for a 2010 Pushcart Prize. She believes in the healing properties of bargain shopping, globe-trotting, and good whiskey. What follows is a transcript of her recent chat with poet Andrea Henchey
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Rachel Shukert
Recently, I had the pleasure of meeting comedy writer Rachel Shukert, the witty contributing editor of Tablet. She's also published two critically acclaimed memoirs, her latest, Everything is Going to be Great. In between bites of breakfast at Café Mogador, Shukert discussed a few things, like why she can't seem to grocery shop, and the ongoing argument of why women can be funny...regardless of what those boys say.

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Loch Lomond
The visual equivalent of listening to Loch Lomond's most recent album, Little Me Will Start A Storm (released late February of this year on Tender Loving Empire) would be watching unperturbed croquet players in a thunderstorm. That is to say, you are overcome by inklings of whimsy strung together through the commotion of nature. In other words, this music draws you in. The band blends lingering ever-present vocal stylings with out of the ordinary instrumentation to create indie chamber pop that makes you wish you never forewent those mandolin lessons as a child.

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Words Become Air Reception Thursday, January 26, 2012
Posted on January 26th, 2012
by Jesse Sposato
WORDS BECOME AIR (a two-venue art exhibition) Curated by Karen Fitzgerald December 28, 2012 – April 17, 2012 *Public Reception*: Thursday, January 26, 2012, 6-8pm., *both venues* Holiday Inn Manhattan View, 39-05 29th Street *and* Space Realty Group Gallery 29-09 39th Avenue, Long Island City, NY 11106 Viewing hours: 24/7 at Holiday Inn, M-F 10-6pm at Space Realty Group *************** Language has often been included in visual art.  Artists use titles as a way to suggest w...

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