Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Monday, April 11, 2011
SMILE, HON: "Some mighty fine writing..."
Not even two weeks after its publication, Hon: Past, Present & Future has already found its way halfway around the world!
Of the new issue, New Zealand's Phantom Billstickers Ltd. says, "[S]ome mighty fine writing...all very close to the street/community and closely resembles that which is actually happening in that community. Imagine that? The voices are keen, fresh, and direct. We like it." Indeed, they like it enough to feature a give-away of five copies of the zine.
Read the complete review here.
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Of the new issue, New Zealand's Phantom Billstickers Ltd. says, "[S]ome mighty fine writing...all very close to the street/community and closely resembles that which is actually happening in that community. Imagine that? The voices are keen, fresh, and direct. We like it." Indeed, they like it enough to feature a give-away of five copies of the zine.
Read the complete review here.
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Sunday, April 10, 2011
SMILE, HON: April Events
BALTIMORE, Md. – It’s a busy month for Eight-Stone Press (ESP), in the wake of publishing Hon: Past, Present & Future, the latest theme issue in ESP’s long-running Smile, Hon, You’re in Baltimore! series. First up, don't miss what Baltimore Magazine has called "a can't miss event on the city's cultural scene" as CityLit Project partners with the Enoch Pratt Free Library for the eighth time to present the annual CityLit Festival, Baltimore's day-long celebration of literature, from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. this Saturday, April 16, 2011, at the Pratt’s Central Branch in downtown Baltimore. Stop by the Eight-Stone Press table in the Literary Marketplace to pick up a copy of Hon: Past, Present & Future, back issues of Smile, Hon and more. This year's Festival headliners are Danielle Evans, Andrei Codrescu, and Jaimy Gordon. For more information, visit the event website.
Next up, join Smile, Hon, You’re in Baltimore! for an evening of Mobtown-infused verse from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., Monday, April 18, 2011, at the Towson Public Library, 320 York Road, Towson, MD 21204, part of the 6th Annual Cruelest Month Poetry and Performance Festival co-sponsored by the Towson Arts Collective and the Baltimore County Public Library. Presenting authors include Heck, Sarah Jane Miller, Fernando Quijano III, S.J. Ferrandi and more; Smile, Hon editor William P. Tandy hosts. Want to try your own hand? This free event will also feature an open-mic session. Light refreshments will be served. For more information, visit the Festival website.
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Friday, April 8, 2011
UPDATE: Hon: Past, Present & Future
BALTIMORE, Md. - The Feral Scribe ("Chronicles of a Wayfaring Journalist") offers an interesting outsider's perspective on Baltimore and its "hontroversy," including a handful of quotes from Hon: Past, Present & Future.
Also, Welcome to Baltimore, Hon's Bruce Goldfarb (author of the notorious "Hon Manifesto") offers his take on the new issue.
And finally, those who missed last week's edition of local arts program The Signal, featuring a discussion of Hon: Past, Present & Future with editor William P. Tandy, can now listen to the podcast. Rounding out the line-up:
Also, Welcome to Baltimore, Hon's Bruce Goldfarb (author of the notorious "Hon Manifesto") offers his take on the new issue.
And finally, those who missed last week's edition of local arts program The Signal, featuring a discussion of Hon: Past, Present & Future with editor William P. Tandy, can now listen to the podcast. Rounding out the line-up:
- Ron Tanner talks about his new illustrated novel, Kiss Me, Stranger. The book tells the story of a dystopian future plagued by civil war and environmental degradation… and believe it or not, it manages to be hopeful, tender, and downright funny.
- We talk to John Heyn, who co-directed the seminal rock-n-roll documentary Heavy Metal Parking Lot. The film is celebrating its 25th anniversary.
- And if you ask heavy metal misfit Terry Sapp, “What do you want to do with your life?” he’ll answer defiantly, “I wanna rock!” From the stage of The Stoop Storytelling Series, Terry tells the tale of his lifelong devotion to the screaming ball of hair that is Twisted Sister.
Thursday, March 31, 2011
"Hon" editor on this week's edition of "The Signal"
BALTIMORE, Md. - Smile, Hon, You're in Baltimore! editor William P. Tandy joins this week's edition of The Signal to discuss Hon: Past, Present & Future, the latest theme issue in the long-running Smile, Hon series from Eight-Stone Press, beginning at 7:00 p.m. this Friday, April 1, 2011, on 88.1 (WYPR-FM), or listen online at www.wypr.org. (The program airs again at 1:00 p.m., Saturday, April 2.)This week's program also includes:
- Ron Tanner talks about his new illustrated novel, Kiss Me, Stranger. The book tells the story of a dystopian future plagued by civil war and environmental degradation… and believe it or not, it manages to be hopeful, tender, and downright funny.
- We talk to John Heyn, who co-directed the seminal rock-n-roll documentary, Heavy Metal Parking Lot. The film is celebrating its 25th anniversary.
- And if you ask heavy metal misfit Terry Sapp, “What do you want to do with your life?” he’ll answer defiantly, “I wanna rock!” From the stage of The Stoop Storytelling Series, Terry tells the tale of his lifelong devotion to the screaming ball of hair that is Twisted Sister.
Eight-Stone Press Publishes Controversial "Hon" Edition
~ Hon: Past, Present & Future expounds on issues brought to light by the trademarking of the word "Hon" ~
BALTIMORE, Md. – In an effort to document and mobilize the public sentiment generated in response to news of Café Hon owner Denise Whiting's trade-marking of the term "hon," Eight-Stone Press announces the publication of Hon: Past, Present & Future, the latest theme issue in its long-running Smile, Hon, You're in Baltimore! series.
"Given the sustained public reaction to Ms. Whiting's actions, it was evident that there were deeper issues at play," says William P. Tandy, editor for Smile, Hon, You're in Baltimore!. "I felt that many of these issues were being drowned out in the almost circus-like firestorm that ensued, especially online. Hon: Past, Present & Future attempts to offer a platform of reasoned and constructive argument."
From "birthright" to "state of being," many Baltimoreans hold "hon" sacred, something as intrinsic to the city's character as the Orioles, painted screens and Old Bay. In collecting the words and images of 17 area contributors, Hon: Past, Present & Future explores the various interpretations and implications of this simple term of endearment in a city struggling to reconcile its industrial past with an uncertain future.
Contributor and native son Rafael Alvarez (The Wire) leads the charge by reclaiming a piece of Charm City history. "To find out what defines a 365-day-a-year Hon, I swung from the branches of my family tree – where the genuine article hangs like a row of gotchkies on the line – and scratched the genealogy of an old friend from southwest Baltimore," he writes in "Ain't Nothin' Like the Real Thing". Meanwhile, China Martens (The Future Generation: The Zine-Book for Subculture Parents, Kids, Friends and Others) expresses concern over the impact of gentrification on city youth.
"Fifty percent of the community moves out and another 50 percent moves in within just a few years," she writes in "This is Hampden, Not Café Hon Town". "One of the differences in the newer groups...is they have fewer children, as well as different attitudes toward children's concerns, and this affects changes in the neighborhood." Read the issue's introduction, as well as pieces by Rafael Alvarez and Dean Bartoli Smith, online at EightStonePress.com.
This issue also hopes to rally locals to effect positive change within the city. Tandy, by example, is donating a portion of the proceeds from sales of the issue to the Maryland chapter of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS). "My oncologist's primary annual fund-raiser supports the Maryland chapter of LLS," he says. "In his words, 'the money stays local,' helping to directly fund cancer treatment, transportation and other incidentals for patients who could not otherwise afford it. As a survivor, I consider it my duty to help others in similar situations."
The submission-based Smile, Hon, You're in Baltimore! collects essays, poetry, photography and other artwork loosely centered on life in Baltimore. A two-time Utne Reader Independent Press Award nominee, Smile, Hon, You're in Baltimore! has also been dubbed "Best Zine" by Baltimore Magazine (2008) and Baltimore City Paper (2004).
To read Hon: Past, Present & Future in its entirety, order via PayPal to davida@leekinginc.com (issues are $3 each, + $1 s/h per order); copies may also be purchased from Atomic Books (Baltimore, MD); City Lights Books (San Francisco, CA); Cyclops Books (Baltimore, MD); Microcosm Publishing (Bloomington, IN, and Portland, OR); Quimby's (Chicago, IL); Red Emma's Bookstore Coffeehouse (Baltimore, MD); Ukazoo Books (Towson, MD); or via mail by writing Eight-Stone Press, P.O. Box 11064, Baltimore, MD 21212 USA.
For more information, contact:
William P. Tandy, Editor
Eight-Stone Press
P.O. Box 11064
Baltimore, MD 21212
wpt@eightstonepress.com
www.eightstonepress.com
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BALTIMORE, Md. – In an effort to document and mobilize the public sentiment generated in response to news of Café Hon owner Denise Whiting's trade-marking of the term "hon," Eight-Stone Press announces the publication of Hon: Past, Present & Future, the latest theme issue in its long-running Smile, Hon, You're in Baltimore! series."Given the sustained public reaction to Ms. Whiting's actions, it was evident that there were deeper issues at play," says William P. Tandy, editor for Smile, Hon, You're in Baltimore!. "I felt that many of these issues were being drowned out in the almost circus-like firestorm that ensued, especially online. Hon: Past, Present & Future attempts to offer a platform of reasoned and constructive argument."
From "birthright" to "state of being," many Baltimoreans hold "hon" sacred, something as intrinsic to the city's character as the Orioles, painted screens and Old Bay. In collecting the words and images of 17 area contributors, Hon: Past, Present & Future explores the various interpretations and implications of this simple term of endearment in a city struggling to reconcile its industrial past with an uncertain future.
Contributor and native son Rafael Alvarez (The Wire) leads the charge by reclaiming a piece of Charm City history. "To find out what defines a 365-day-a-year Hon, I swung from the branches of my family tree – where the genuine article hangs like a row of gotchkies on the line – and scratched the genealogy of an old friend from southwest Baltimore," he writes in "Ain't Nothin' Like the Real Thing". Meanwhile, China Martens (The Future Generation: The Zine-Book for Subculture Parents, Kids, Friends and Others) expresses concern over the impact of gentrification on city youth.
"Fifty percent of the community moves out and another 50 percent moves in within just a few years," she writes in "This is Hampden, Not Café Hon Town". "One of the differences in the newer groups...is they have fewer children, as well as different attitudes toward children's concerns, and this affects changes in the neighborhood." Read the issue's introduction, as well as pieces by Rafael Alvarez and Dean Bartoli Smith, online at EightStonePress.com.
This issue also hopes to rally locals to effect positive change within the city. Tandy, by example, is donating a portion of the proceeds from sales of the issue to the Maryland chapter of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS). "My oncologist's primary annual fund-raiser supports the Maryland chapter of LLS," he says. "In his words, 'the money stays local,' helping to directly fund cancer treatment, transportation and other incidentals for patients who could not otherwise afford it. As a survivor, I consider it my duty to help others in similar situations."
The submission-based Smile, Hon, You're in Baltimore! collects essays, poetry, photography and other artwork loosely centered on life in Baltimore. A two-time Utne Reader Independent Press Award nominee, Smile, Hon, You're in Baltimore! has also been dubbed "Best Zine" by Baltimore Magazine (2008) and Baltimore City Paper (2004).
To read Hon: Past, Present & Future in its entirety, order via PayPal to davida@leekinginc.com (issues are $3 each, + $1 s/h per order); copies may also be purchased from Atomic Books (Baltimore, MD); City Lights Books (San Francisco, CA); Cyclops Books (Baltimore, MD); Microcosm Publishing (Bloomington, IN, and Portland, OR); Quimby's (Chicago, IL); Red Emma's Bookstore Coffeehouse (Baltimore, MD); Ukazoo Books (Towson, MD); or via mail by writing Eight-Stone Press, P.O. Box 11064, Baltimore, MD 21212 USA.
For more information, contact:
William P. Tandy, Editor
Eight-Stone Press
P.O. Box 11064
Baltimore, MD 21212
wpt@eightstonepress.com
www.eightstonepress.com
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Monday, February 21, 2011
Coming March 31, 2011, from Eight-Stone Press...
From “birthright” to "state of being," many Baltimoreans hold "hon" sacred, something as intrinsic to the city's character as the Orioles, painted screens and Old Bay. This special edition of the award-winning zine Smile, Hon, You're in Baltimore! explores the various interpretations and implications of this simple term of endearment in a city struggling to reconcile its industrial past with an uncertain future...Pub. Date: March 31, 2011
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