Eat Hearty and SMILE, HON!

THE RAFT OF THE MEDUSA. Theodore Gericault, 1819.

October 28, 2012

For Immediate Release

BALTIMORE, Md. – Facing meteorological Armageddon? Between stockpiling Charmin and planning which neighbors to eat first, leave your mark for future civilizations by submitting your Mobtown-related/inspired stories, essays, poetry, photography and other artwork to long-running lit zine Smile, Hon, You’re in Baltimore!.

Creative non-fiction is preferred, though all submissions will be considered.  Articles (100 – 2,000 words) should be submitted via e-mail (wpt@eightstonepress.com) as attached Word documents.  Image files should be high-resolution, approximately 5” x 7”, 300+ dpi (.JPG or .TIF format).  All contributors will received a byline/artist credit for their work as well as two (2) complimentary copies of the issue when published.  The deadline for submissions is Friday, November 30, 2012.

From the harbor to the hills, Smile, Hon, You’re in Baltimore! collects the tales of those on whom Mobtown has left her indelible mark.  Polished, professional essays, barroom sermons delivered from the sanctity of a favorite stool; the poet’s fleeting sentiment, captured in both word and snapshot – Smile, Hon offers a slice of Baltimore as told by Baltimore, presented with the time-honored DIY accessibility of a limited-run, handcrafted zine.  A two-time Utne Independent Press Award Nominee, Smile, Hon has also been dubbed “Best Zine” by Baltimore Magazine (2008) and Baltimore City Paper (2004).  Special theme issues have tackled such subjects as alleyways, sex, rats, and tattoos.

An Eight-Stone Press production, Smile, Hon, You’re in Baltimore! is available for purchase at Atomic Books (Baltimore, MD); City Lights Books (San Francisco, CA); Cyclops Books & Music (Baltimore, MD); Microcosm Distribution; Quimby’s (Chicago, IL); Red Emma’s Bookstore Coffeehouse (Baltimore, MD); and Ukazoo Books (Towson, MD).  For more information, contact:

William P. Tandy, Editor

Eight-Stone Press

P.O. Box 11064

Baltimore, Maryland 21212

E-mail: wpt@eightstonepress.com

Web: http://www.eightstonepress.com

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/wptandy

Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/eightstonepress

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Bodine Visits Clifton Mansion

 

BALTIMORE, Md. – Jennifer Bodine, daughter of Baltimore Sun photographer A. Aubrey Bodine, will discuss her father’s work beginning at 7:00 p.m. this Thursday, September 20, 2012, at Clifton Mansion, 2701 Saint Lo Drive, Baltimore 21213.  Jennifer, who curates her father’s photography through her website, www.AAubreyBodine.com, will also sign copies of her latest book, Bodine's City: The Photography of A. Aubrey Bodine, published by Schiffer Books.

The elder Bodine (right) shot for The Baltimore Sun from the 1920s until his death in 1970.  More recently his work has appeared frequently in the pages of the critically acclaimed local literary zine Smile, Hon, You’re in Baltimore!.

The event, co-sponsored by the Baltimore City Historical Society, will also feature tours of Clifton Mansion beginning at 5:30 p.m.  Originally built between 1790 and 1801, the home was later purchased and expanded by philanthropist Johns Hopkins.  For more information on Clifton Mansion, visit http://www.civicworks.com/mansion/history/.

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SMILE, HON kicks off Baltimore Book Fest!

BALTIMORE, Md. – Join Smile, Hon, You’re in Baltimore! editor, publisher, and contributing writer William P. Tandy for an evening of Mobtown mayhem Friday, September 28, 2012, beginning at 6:00 p.m. under the City Lit Tent at the Baltimore Book Festival.

Tandy will host a lineup of contributors from Alleyways, the latest installment in the long-running Smile, Hon series published by Eight-Stone Press.  Readers include:

• Earl Crown
• Girl Crown
• E. Doyle-Gillespie
• Anthony C. Hayes
• Alex Hewett
• Mary Elizabeth Mays
• Fernando Quijano III
• Geoffrey Welchman

While there, pick up a copy of Alleyways, back issues of Smile, Hon, t-shirts and more.  Plus, enjoy live musical interludes from The Wayfarers, who will mark the release of their new CD.

From the harbor to the hills, Smile, Hon, You're in Baltimore! collects the tales of those on whom Mobtown has left her indelible mark. Polished, professional essays; barroom sermons delivered from the sanctity of a favorite stool; the poet's fleeting sentiment, captured in both word and snapshot – Smile, Hon offers a slice of Baltimore as told by Baltimore, presented with the time-honored DIY accessibility of a limited-run, handcrafted zine. A two-time Utne Independent Press Award Nominee, Smile, Hon has also been dubbed "Best Zine" by Baltimore Magazine (2008) and Baltimore City Paper (2004).

An Eight-Stone Press production, Smile, Hon, You're in Baltimore! is available locally for purchase at Atomic Books (Baltimore, MD); City Lights Books (San Francisco, CA) Cyclops Books & Music (Baltimore, MD); Microcosm Publishing (Bloomington, IN, and Portland, OR); Quimby's (Chicago, IL); Red Emma's Bookstore Coffeehouse (Baltimore, MD) and Ukazoo Books (Towson, MD).

For more information, contact:

William P. Tandy, Editor

Eight-Stone Press

P.O. Box 11064

Baltimore, Maryland 21212

E-mail: Wpt@eightstonepress.com

Website: http://www.eightstonepress.com

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/wptandy

Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/eightstonepress

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Ed Wood Regular Returns for Baltimore Appearance

BALTIMORE, Md. – Actor/director Conrad Brooks, a regular in notorious B-movie director Edward D. Wood, Jr.’s stable of players, returns to his hometown for the latest installment in the Mondo Baltimore film series, featuring a screening of his own B-flick, Gypsy Vampire: The Final Bloodlust, on Thursday, September 6, at the Wind-Up Space, 12 W. North Avenue, Baltimore 21201.  A Q&A session highlighting Brooks’s 50+ years in Hollywood begins at 7:00 p.m. , followed by the 8:00 p.m. screening.  Admission is $5.

Brooks, who grew up in the city’s Fell’s Point neighborhood, left home for Hollywood in 1948.  The starry-eyed son of Polish immigrants soon teamed up with the notorious B-movie director, appearing in such Wood classics as Plan 9 from Outer Space, Glen or Glenda? and The Sinister Urge. Brooks spent the next half-century learning his craft in the workaday world of Tinsel Town, befriending such screen legends as Lawrence Tierney and Timothy Carey along the way.

Brooks’s most recent directorial outing, Gypsy Vampire: The Final Bloodlust, is the fourth and final film in his Gypsy Vampire series, chronicling the sinister Count Lugo’s efforts to resurrect a dead woman to be his bride.  Brooks’s prior efforts include Jan-Gel: The Beast from the East and Mystery in Shadows. 

Read William P. Tandy’s firsthand account of guerrilla film-making on the streets of Baltimore with Brooks in Smile, Hon, You're in Baltimore! No. 7, published by Eight-Stone Press.

For more information, visit Mondo Baltimore’s Facebook eventpage, or e-mail wpt@eightstonepress.com.

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ALLEYWAYS Praise!

Phantom Billstickers - New Zealand's Largest & Finest Street Poster and Street Media Company - offers a few nice words regarding Alleyways, the latest theme issue in ESP's Smile, Hon, You're in Baltimore! series, via its Facebook page:

Every so often something happens in either the writing world or in music that is extremely refreshing. The Smile, Hon, You're in Baltimore! publications are a good example. Here is the latest issue Alleyways. You fast get the idea that not every writer has been to a "creative writing" class that has rendered them impotent first and stupid second. We commend our brothers in Baltimore for stepping out beyond the line of boredom. Good writing (like good music) should always come from the street. Good postering does too.

Praise for SMILE, HON, YOU'RE IN BALTIMORE!

"If you only know Baltimore as 'that city from The Wire' you need to get down with some Smile, Hon.  DIY anthropology at its best!" - MICROCOSM PUBLISHING

Hemingway, Gellhorn subjects of new HBO biopic

Photo: HBO

Clive Owen and Nicole Kidman star in a new HBO movie about the marriage of writer Ernest Hemingway and journalist Martha Gellhorn.  According to National Public Radio, the couple "married in 1940. Four years later, she expected to cover D-Day for Collier's magazine. By that point, her marriage was fraying, and when Hemingway took the job instead, the indomitable Gellhorn stowed away on a hospital ship and beat her husband to Normandy..."

SMILE, HON, you've got a face for radio!

Orson Welles as The Shadow.

Did you ever wonder what I might sound like if I were Benn Ray, co-owner of Baltimore's own indie all-star, Atomic Books?  Neither did I  - but now you can hear it for yourself on this week's installment of The Inverse Delirium Podcast, a self-described "spoof of media culture & life in this American Baltimore."  This week's guests also include WYPR's Nathan Sterner and Unknown Penguin Patrick Flynn, mostly as themselves!

SMILE, HON leaves the beaten path

BALTIMORE, Md. – If main-street facades embody the stuffy front parlors of urban existence, then alleyways are certainly its living quarters, a place where collars are opened, tongues are relaxed, and business gets done.

Group of employees and several small boys in the littered alley entrance to a Baltimore garment factory, 1921. Source: National Archives.

Now, through July 1, 2012, literary byway Smile, Hon, You’re in Baltimore! is accepting stories, essays, poetry, photography and other artwork that creatively interpret the theme of “alleyways” for an upcoming special issue.  Creative non-fiction is preferred, though all submissions will be considered.  Copy (100 – 2,000 words) should be submitted via e-mail as attached Word (or text) documents.  Image files should be approximately 5" x 7", 300+ dpi (.JPG or .TIF format).  All contributors will receive a byline/artist credit for their work as well as two (2) complimentary copies of the issue.

From the harbor to the hills, Smile, Hon, You're in Baltimore! collects the tales of those on whom Mobtown has left her indelible mark. Polished, professional essays; barroom sermons delivered from the sanctity of a favorite stool; the poet's fleeting sentiment, captured in both word and snapshot – Smile, Hon offers a slice of Baltimore as told by Baltimore, presented with the time-honored DIY accessibility of a limited-run, handcrafted zine. A two-time Utne Independent Press Award Nominee, Smile, Hon has also been dubbed "Best Zine" by Baltimore Magazine (2008) and Baltimore City Paper (2004). Other special theme issues have tackled such subjects as sex, rats, tattoos and waste.

An Eight-Stone Press production, Smile, Hon, You're in Baltimore! is available locally for purchase at Atomic Books (Baltimore, MD); City Lights Books (San Francisco, CA) Cyclops Books & Music (Baltimore, MD); Microcosm Publishing (Bloomington, IN, and Portland, OR); Quimby's (Chicago, IL); Red Emma's Bookstore Coffeehouse (Baltimore, MD) and Ukazoo Books (Towson, MD).

For more information, contact:

William P. Tandy, Editor

Eight-Stone Press

P.O. Box 11064

Baltimore, Maryland 21212

E-mail: Wpt@eightstonepress.com

Website: http://www.eightstonepress.com

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/wptandy

Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/eightstonepress

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