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Hip-Hop

By Martha Grover

For the purpose of this collection, Martha Grover defines hip hop as consisting of four elements: b-boying, graffiti, emceeing and deejaying.  From that starting point, she strives to seek out the dedicated practitioners of all four art forms taking her all over the city of Portland. Grover, seemingly, avoids touching on the race subject as her interviewees come from varied ethnicities.  By the end, you will have learned several things in regard to Portland's hip hop community but it's Grovers introspective writing that bends your ear and invites you to learn more about her and where she's coming from.

$6.00

Communicating Vessels #20

A fine read as always, Communicating Vessels is a clear, articulate look at social movements, social history and personal observation.

This issue features:

Forty Years since 1968
Recommended Reading
The State of the Book and Bookselling In America
Maxwell Street in the Sixties
Food as Utopia
and much more

$3.00

Urban Herbs

By Carly Boyer

From Urban Edibles comes this resource of commonly found herbs in the Urban Environment along with their uses.

$5.00

Brains, Brilliancy, Bohemia

By Marc Moscato

"Brains, Brilliancy, Bohemia: Art & Politics in Jazz-Age Chicago
Presenting photos and photocopies from Chicago’s ill-forgotten radical nightclub, The Dill Pickle Club, hobo gatherings and 1910s-20s ephemera, Brains, Brilliancy, Bohemia provides a timely look at the origin of American counterculture and working class art leading up to the Great Depression. New edition also includes a DVD of the short film, The More Things Stay The Same, a documentary on the life and world of hobo king and prostitute physician, Dr. Ben Reitman."

$13.00

East Village Inky #40

By Ayun Halliday

$3.00

AVOW 23

By Keith Rosson

It has been 2 years, but here it is the 23rd installment of Rossan's fiction filled zine.

$2.00

Impractical Labor In Service of the Speculative Arts

A colleection dealing with modern American disconnect between the tasks we do daily and the physical human labor required for survival.  This envelope contains a smorgasbord of letterpress pamphlets, creative found paper integrations and clever little art projects.

$12.00

Fillip 9 Winter 2009

"Fillip is a publication of art, culture and ideas issued three times a year by the Projectile Publishing Society and Emily Carr University of Art and Design.  Crossing academic, artistic and related practices, Fillip acts as a forum for critical discussion in the contemporary arts and situates itself as complement to and stimulus for contemporary practices and discourses."

Includes: Sunshine Daydream Maerdyad Enihsnus a Vinyl 45 by Cranfield & Slade

$5.00

Spunk #6

Number 6 features great artwork throughout writing on subjects ranging from gritty personal narrative to searching out how to get well hung(in a gallery).

$5.00

Sweat Book 2

By Kevin Scalzo

Not messing about at all, Scalzo goes full color with the second issue.  Thus it features his full fledged paintings, painting details, and sketchy characters.

$9.95