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Frank X. Gaspar, April 26

Posted Apr 24th, 2008 • category: news

An Evening of Poetry with Frank X. Gaspar
saturday, april 26 // 8pm // $7 (pre-sale only)
It’s April, so it’s National Poetry Month and we’re celebrating the medium accordingly with not one, but two (!) poetry events. Our second evening of poetry will turn its ear to Frank X. Gaspar, an accomplished poet and novelist [...]



the {open} 4th st. anniversary with Ray Barbee Meets The Mattson 2

Posted Apr 2nd, 2008 • category: 4th St., long beach, music events, news

the {open} 4th st. anniversary party
saturday, april 12 // 7-10pm // free (RSVP only)
Can you believe it? It’s been a whole YEAR since we moved to our new digs here on 4th St.! We opened “new” {open} on April 8, 2007, with a tooth-chippingly awesome performance from poet Derrick Brown and The Blank [...]



“camera eye” opens March 29

Posted Mar 21st, 2008 • category: art, news

“Camera Eye”
Polaroid photography from artist Marleah Tobin
opening reception // saturday, mar 29 // 6-9pm // free

Marleah Tobin’s work is unplanned, unchoregraphed and unscripted, what she calls “a left-hand path to digitization.”
Her goal is to capture an image as it happens, “the way your youth was captured. Tangible, visceral, but simultaneously dreamlike.Things immortalized not [...]