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Atomic Reading Club 2016: Humor & Satire

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Atomic Reading Club Book Picks for 2016 - Humor and Satire We're going to lighten it up for 2016, revisit some classics and maybe a few other titles you meant to check out and look for laffs. January - Hyperbole And A Half by Allie Brosh February - The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams March - A Confederacy Of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole April - Let's Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson May - Buddy Does Seattle by Peter Bagge June - Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple July - Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari August - Lamb by Christopher Moore September - Super Sad True Love Story  by Gary Shteyngart October - The Fan Man by William Kotzwinkle November - So You've Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson December - Wilson by Daniel Clowes Discussions are always the last Tuesday for the month, 7pm, in Eightbar. For more info, updates, etc., join the FB group.

BaltoZine Round-Up: July 2015

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The Baltozine Roundup is a regular feature wherein we take a look at what national periodicals are saying about Baltimore-area arts, events, people, and places. Be sure to pick up the magazines and read the full articles. In the July/August issue of Imbibe (#56) , Joshua M. Bernstein's article, "So Metal: Once Knocked As A Novelty, Canned Craft Beer Is Growing Up," local brewer Stillwater's Yacht is listed as one of "Ten To Try:" "With his Contemporary Works line, saison-driven gypsy brewer Brian Strumke is exploring different styles, such as this floral, grassy summer-friendly lager sold by the 16-ounce can." The current issue of Razorcake (#86) has a review of Baltimore band Sick Thoughts' new 7-inch, "Beat on Beat" by Ty Stranglehold: "Holy shit, how many records has this guy put out in the last year or so? I know I can't keep up, no matter how hard I try. If you missed my review of the 10" a couple o

John Waters' Commencement Address

A week ago, John Waters gave this commencement address to the 2015 graduating class of the Rhode Island School of Design. Recommended for every graduate!

Festival Check 2015

We're getting a late start on the Festival Checklist due to recent Baltimore goingson but here we go: May  SoWeBo Festival May  Maryland Deathfest June  Honfest July  Artscape July  Otakon August  BronyCon September  Hampdenfest September  Small Press Expo September  High Zero Festival September  Baltimore Comic Con September  Baltimore Book Festival And if you're coming to town, we have a handy list on our  links  page for places to check out and things to do.

Read & Watch: Jimmy Giegerich

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Executioner And Friend - The Slime Lord (Ep #1) is a new cartoon from cartoonist Jimmy Giegerich. Check it out, and then be sure to check out some of his comics too: Bits In Multiples Of Eight - edited by Jimmy, this is an 8bit-64bit Video Game Fan Art Book Executioner And Friend (which the cartoon is an adaptation of) - a collection of short comics about an executioner, named Executioner, and his best friend, named Friend, and their adventures and mishaps in the Dungeon where they work Fight Frogs - (which we're REALLY hoping also gets turned into a cartoon) a comic about three totally rad frog brothers named Crud, Scuzz, and Gorp who live in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, listen to heavy metal, rumble with gangs of animal men and party hard! Ugs, Fugs & Grossos - a collection of drawings of ug-ass mugs, fug-ass fugs, and gross-ass grossos

Atomic Reading Club 2015: Gothic Horror

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Atomic Reading Club Book Picks for 2015 - Gothic and Horror   We're going to take a turn down a darker street for 2015, revisit some classics and maybe a few other titles you meant to check out.   We're doubling up on comics this year. As always, you'll get 15% off the books, but if you choose to do the double graphic novel months, you'll get 40% off the two.   January - Saga of Swamp Thing Book One by Alan Moore/various AND Hellblazer Vol. 1: Original Sins by Jamie Delano/various February - My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier March - Call of Cthulu and Other Stories by H.P. Lovecraft   April - Outer Dark by Cormac McCarthy   May - Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn   June - Hell House by Richard Matheson July - Let the Right One in by John Ajvide Lindqvist August - Shadow Of The Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon September - Baltimore Vol. 1: Plague Ships by Mike Mignola/various AND Preacher Book One by Garth Ennis/Steve Dillon October - Horrorstor by