Out of Time: Matt Wolf’s Smalltown Boys

Out of Time: Matt Wolf’s Smalltown Boys

It’s April, and if you’re like me, you’ve probably been busy tying up overdue assignments and following instructions on how to properly label your JPEGS for this or that residency or fellowship application. As such, what follows is an excerpt from a...
Travelogue: Craft & (Queer) Kinship

Travelogue: Craft & (Queer) Kinship

Family was most certainly on my mind as I traveled to the Southwest this past month. My immediate biological relatives all currently reside in the Phoenix-metro area, where they’ve either retired or chosen to start new families of their own. As a single,...
Good at Sext, or Happy Valentine’s Day

Good at Sext, or Happy Valentine’s Day

Ian Curtis had epilepsy, and this particular disorder of his perhaps only exacerbated that self-loathsome something inevitably experienced by us all: our need and sometimes drastic dependency on others to calm us, support us, and keep us alive. Peter Hook, Joy...
Edie Fake’s Ecstatic Afterlives

Edie Fake’s Ecstatic Afterlives

On view currently at Chicago’s Thomas Robertello Gallery are 15 pen, ink, and gouache drawings on paper by local artist, illustrator, and author of the Gaylord Phoenix volume of comics, Edie Fake. Titled ‘Memory Palaces,’ the exhibition is a...