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By The Editors Editor’s note: The latest episode of Don’t Mind If I Don’t is out now! It’s on Fashion Week. Quail Bell founder Christine Stoddard is also one of the show hosts. Here’s a brief Q&A with the show’s director and creator, plus the episode itself. As you can probably tell by the way we are all dressed every episode, co-host Christine is the only member of our team with a fashion sense. The rest of us who wear some variation of the same thing every day (for me it is a “production black” T-shirt and dirty, soon-to-be-ripped jeans) are not so gifted. But this is “Don’t Mind If I Don’t,” we always aim to try the things we claim to loathe, to eat our vegetables. So, this time around, we fashion! We get a little closer to our team this episode. Literally. We leave the studio and go full hand-held, going into the world of the rehearsal of a fashion show as well as the being on the runaway for the show itself. We also go into the home of an established designer. It was a lot of fun. -Director Tom Dunn Christine: What is your number one fashion rule? Aaron: Feel good about how you look. Otherwise, what are we even doing here? Tom: Be confident or be clever. I think it is safe to say that my fashion outlook is the same as my conversational style. What’s the most you ever paid for a pair of jeans? How long did you own them? Aaron: I think like $100? Is that too much? Is that too little? Someone help me. I need an adult. Tom: $150 and it haunts me to this day. I bought jeans to go with a suit jacket for an end-of-job party. I felt good on the day, but then I was left wondering where my monies went. What least surprised you about making this episode? Aaron: How uncomfortable I felt at all times. Tom: How happy everyone who likes to be well dressed are when there is an event that calls for it. I’ve been around a lot of people like this in my life and it is always the case. Go ahead, throw a Great Gatsby themed party at your apartment and watch how happy your guests are. If a woodchuck could chuck wood, would it chuck cat could walk fashion would? Aaron: Are you having a stroke? Tom: I don’t believe in alliteration. What that ‘fit do? Aaron: Is that a Kendrick lyric? Tom: It makes me want to buy Aaron some shoes. Good God, man. Watch the episode here:
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By Don't Mind If I Don't  The following is an interview with Aaron Gold, Tom Dunn, and Christine Stoddard of the Don’t Mind If I Don’t comedy TV show cast and crew. Aaron is the show’s creator and host, Christine is the co-host/developmental producer/art director, and Tom Dunn directed the latest episode on Shakespeare. Christine wrote the questions and Tom and Aaron attempted to answer them. Christine: Aaron, give us an intro. I’m on my period. Aaron: OK. Our newest episode of Don’t Mind If I Don’t is out, and this one’s for all you smarties, theater nerds, and people who have been called “dramatic.” We do a deep dive into William Shakespeare, exploring his surprising potty mouth, penchant for little boys in drag, and how every English teacher ever is wrong. But don’t take my word for it, take my word along with our team’s! Christine: A famous film critic recently asked me at a holiday party if Aaron’s funny. I said, “No, but he’s pretty.” I’m normally pretty confident, but was this the right or wrong answer? And how would you have answered? Tom: Is the atomic mass of radium 224u? Aaron: You really think I’m pretty? The Breadcrumbs widget will appear here on the published site.
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Interview: Neil Clarke, Other Worlds and Other Countries; Publishing International Science Fiction8/23/2024  Neil Clarke is the Editor-in-Chief of Clarkesworld Magazine, a monthly publication for science fiction and fantasy launched in 2006. Clarke has also done editing work for numerous other magazines and anthologies including Best Science Fiction of the Year, Upgraded, and Forever Magazine. Clarke has been a full time editor since 2017 and his work as an editor and art director of science fiction and fantasy has been recognized by the Science Fiction Writers Association (SFWA), the Association of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists (ASFA), the Hugo Awards, and the Locus Awards. You can read more about Neil Clarke on his personal website and you can check out past issues of his magazine, learn how to support the publication, and even submit your own work at ClarkesworldMagazine.com.
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 Cecilia André is an artist, educator, and curator based in New York. André is a painter whose practice incorporates various textiles and transparent materials. André says of her practice, “From a traditional painting background, I navigated towards investigating the fabrics of my paintings, stitching pieces of background and leaving open gaps where the stretchers and wall could be seen. I come from a family of Lebanese immigrants to Brazil who were connected to the production of fabrics. I then moved onto transparencies still stitching them onto a mesh fabric. I believe this openness to different materials and producing immersive installations not only connects to my roots but invites people to partake in experiencing color light.” Her work has been shown in the Queens Botanical Garden, the Materials for the Arts Gallery, Equity Gallery, FIT Gallery, and more. In 2020 André participated in a fellowship with the AnkhLave Arts Alliance and in 2022, she became an AnkhLave curator where she has selected artists for fellowships and curated for Queens and Brooklyn Botanic Gardens. You can read more about Cecilia on her personal website, or check out the AnkhLave Art Alliance’s page for information on their ongoing projects.
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 Kraig Blue is a NYC native born and raised in the Bronx. Blue is an artist, educator, and musician whose practice includes illustration, photography, painting, drawing, musical performance, and his sculptural “assemblages” made of found materials. He takes bones, antique and second hand items, and other found materials to assemble foreboding altars intended to be a platform for contemplation and dialogue. Blue says, “My work is a direct conversation with an audience about issues that still affect my community, specifically the African-American community. The work is a reflection of personal and observed instances throughout my artistic career, and teaching practice, that begs the question, ‘Is the idea of diversity and inclusion a reality or is it a goal within American society we seek but have not truly achieved?’” (Blue). Kraig Blue has been an artist and educator for twenty five years and his work has been in exhibitions in New York, Washington DC, New Orleans, Vermont, and Southern California. This past year, Blue was selected by AnkhLave Arts Alliance to be their 2024 Public Artist in Residence, a multi-year program where his work will be exhibited in numerous public locations. You can read more about the fellowship by visiting AnkhLaveArts.org, or learn more about Kraig Blue and his work on his personal website.
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 Artist, architect, activist, archivist—Coralina Rodriguez Meyer, the Quipucamayoc artist, has a practice spanning over twenty years and thirty countries. Based in Brooklyn and Miami, this summer Meyer is participating in the AnkhLave Arts Alliance 2024 Garden Project Fellowship and you can find her work exhibited in the AnkhLave House on Governors Island in NY. Read more about the fellowship on AnkhLave’s website, or visit Coralina’s personal site to learn more about her work.
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 Badass Lady-Folk host Christine Stoddard interviews author, writer, poet, fashionista Marina Rubin. #writing #poetry #fashion #interview #badassladyfolk
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 Born in Tokyo, Chihiro ITO is a multidisciplinary artist currently living in NYC. His work has been shown in countries all over the world, including the 2012 European Capital of Culture in Portugal, Cypress, Serbia, Lithuania, Japan, and the United States. The child of sculptors, ITO developed an interest in the arts from a young age and in 2018 he received a grant from the Japanese government to travel to New York where he studied the Fluxus movement and met Jonas Mekas. Chihiro ITO is painter, poet, performer, filmmaker, and more. He recently released his film, "Reel to Reel -to Jonas Mekas-" as part of his residency with the Jonas Mekas Studio, and he’s currently one of the artists in residence for AnkhLave Art Alliance’s 2024 Garden Project Fellowship. Read more about Chihiro ITO and his work on his personal website, and check out the AnkhLave house on Governors Island in New York City to view his work in person until October 31st, 2024.
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 Xiong Wei is a contemporary artist and sculptor based in Brooklyn NY. Wei creates three dimensional sculptural collages with a focus on raw materials and personally crafted components rather than found objects. His art deals with themes of violence, death, ephemerality, and interrogates frictions between Eastern and Western philosophies. Wei’s work has been exhibited at the Thomas Hunter Project Space at Hunter College, The Blanc Gallery, The Border Project, Latitude Gallery, Watchung Arts Center, and Shockboxx. This summer you can find Wei’s work in the AnkhLave House on Governors Island as part of the AnkhLave Art Alliance’s 2024 Garden Project Fellowship and you can visit Xiong Wei’s personal website for more information about the artist and his work.
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 Diego Espaillat is a sculpture artist from NYC. He graduated from Lyme Academy College in 2017, his first residency and solo show were with Flux Factory in 2021, and he’s exhibited with Calderon Gallery and Chashama Gallery. Espaillat takes inspiration from his heritage to reimagine the Dominican folk art of Carnival masks. “I take familiar things and make them spectacular and unique so that people can experience something new and fresh with them” (Espaillat). He’s trained with renowned folk artists in Santiago and adapted the practice to make it his own, allowing the characteristic horns and ornate adornment of the Lechon Joyero, Vejignate, and Diablo Conjuelo influence all his sculpture. This summer Diego Espaillat is participating in the AnkhLave Arts Alliance’s 2024 Garden Project Fellowship, visit the AnkhLave house on Governors Island or go to his website to view his art.
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By The Editors There are many headlines about what the Big Apple is like for artists these days in this so-called "post-pandemic era." But how many times are artists themselves actually asked? We caught up with Spanish artist Marina Ogalla for insight into the life of a young immigrant performer living in New York City today. Here's what she had to say:  What do you most want readers to know about you as a human and an artist?
Being honest, I have never known how to describe myself. I have always considered myself a bit of a contradiction. I wanna work all the time and focus on my art, but I also wanna travel the world. I want to be in NYC, but I want to be home. So, contradiction would be the first thing. I also consider myself very hard working. Once I get an idea in my mind or a goal, I work for it, and I never give up, no matter what happens. Those very much describe myself as an artist, chaotic and messy, as most artists are, but a very important thing to know about me as a human is that I care. I care about my family, my friends, and I will love them, help them and fight for them. The Breadcrumbs widget will appear here on the published site.
By Madeline Trice Damali Abrams the Glitter Priestess is an artist, educator, and practitioner of folk medicine born and raised in Queens, NYC. In her own words, Abrams describes her artistic practice as “Interdisciplinary, pulling from Black feminist thought in order to create mixed media collage, handmade books, and community engagement. Black feminism is steeped in inclusivity and intersectionality. As a result, my work privileges various forms of knowledge, including traditional research, metaphysical practice, cultural heritage, and oral histories” (Abrams). Damali Abrams is one of the five artists in residence for AnkhLave’s 2024 Garden Project on Governors Island. She’s also a member of SEQAA (Southeast Queens Artist Alliance), and has been the recipient of numerous grants, residencies, teaching opportunities, and more. You can read more about some of her previous accomplishments on her website, or AnkhLave Art Alliance’s bio page for the 2024 Garden Project fellows.
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By Some Gold Pun LLC  Artist Statement: The worst part of starting out a new talent or skill is being bad at it. No one likes an “I suck” period, as crucial as they are to getting decent at anything. It’s embarrassing, sitting alone in a room with your new guitar, desperately trying to churn out some semblance of "Hey There, Delilah." There’s nothing to feel good about in the prerequisite most amateur of amateur hours other than “Well, I haven’t quit yet.” That’s one of the lucky boons Don’t Mind If I Don’t grants me. Because even when I’m struggling at something, if I complain about it loudly and incessantly enough, it will be entertaining. God bless you, television. -Aaron Gold The Breadcrumbs widget will appear here on the published site.
 I kept my eyes on the axle spinning underneath the bowed two-by-four laid across where the bottom of the cab had rusted out to avoid looking up at the trees. The bats hung above us crowding out the sky and weighing down branches like dark leathery tumors, the sum of all their little breaths and twitches making the canopy squirm. It was ten in the morning, but distant facts like nocturnal sleeping schedules don’t make a few thousand flying foxes dangling over your head any less ominous. Despite the throaty belches coming from Daniel’s roofless carcass of a Land Rover, I found myself carefully quiet hoping not to wake the sleeping beasts above me.
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By Madeline Trice Jesús (David Pareja) ascending the steps of his apartment building with the titular table in tow Caye Casas’ “The Coffee Table” (La mesita del comedor) is a Hitchcockian comedy of errors, complete with an ominous ascension of stairs and a premise just a hop, skip, and a jump from “Rope” (1948). In his second full-length film following “Killing God” (2018), Casas shows the worst possible day in a parent’s life and begs viewers not to look away, maybe even to laugh—maybe. I won’t say definitively if the movie was or wasn’t funny, to each their own, but I think what’s important is that the movie wants to be funny.
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By Aaron Gold (and friends!)  One of the things I want to be clear about with my TV show Don’t Mind If I Don’t is that the goal is to convince me to like the subject, not prove/disprove it’s usefulness or validity. Psychics is a great way to demonstrate that, since I truly do not care how real it is. So with that in mind, let’s see if you can learn to enjoy learning about us learning to enjoy psychics. Enjoy this interview with the cast/crew and watch the full episode below!
Who’s who: Aaron Gold: Creator, co-host Christine Stoddard: Co-host, art director Tom Dunn: Director Jacob Maximillian Baron: Director of Photography, editor The Breadcrumbs widget will appear here on the published site.
By The Editors  Come check Art Bitch out at the NYC Talent Show! You can use ABNYCTALENT for special $20 tickets. Go to NYCTalentShow.com
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 Badass Lady-Folk host Christine Stoddard interviews comedian/musician Seann Cantatore. The Breadcrumbs widget will appear here on the published site.
 As my boyfriend once teased me, most people spent quarantine making bread; I made a movie. He isn’t wrong, though it is what a cinephile like me would call a modest attempt. My first feature, an ultra-low-budget indie called Sirena’s Gallery, was born during the pandemic. It went from grad school musing to artist residency proposal to fever dream solo production. At some point, I went from rotting in my bed, fretfully watching live footage of an empty Times Square, to deciding I wasn’t going to give up on my dreams. Now Sirena’s Gallery is streaming on Tubi, Amazon, Hoopla, and other platforms, with more soon joining the mix. You can buy it on Blu-Ray–and from Wal-Mart of all places.
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Badass Lady-Folk host Christine Stoddard interviews New York actress, dancer, Brooklyn Cyclones talent team member, and pageant winner Jada Bennett. This episode was filmed at Manhattan Neighborhood Network. The Breadcrumbs widget will appear here on the published site.
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 My main criterion for a date night craft activity is this: Is it fun? Close second and third: Will it bring us together? Is it achievable? After all, a date night is more about getting to know a person or, for long-term couples, keeping that flame aglow. It's not about perfection or making a museum-quality work of art. While, my partner, Aaron Gold (whose name you may recognize from other Quail Bell endeavors), and I enjoyed our first-ever ceramics foray together at Pottery 1 Studio in Brooklyn, NY, we have a couple of caveats. Pluses: We had a somewhat intimate atmosphere, with one instructor for us and another instructor/couple trio on the other side of the studio. We had more than enough instruction without feeling overwhelmed, and we were allowed to bring whatever snacks we wanted. The activity was definitely intro level, meaning we had enough time to accomplish what we wanted. We certainly learned a thing or two and got to clown around with each other, too. Minuses: The activity was not the most conducive to eating and drinking. Clay is messy, so we really had to get to a point in our respective pots—we each made one—where it was safe to start reaching into bags and crunching and chewing. There were no snacks available for purchase. Due to the physical properties of clay and the studio's process, we had to wait a month before we could come back and pick up our finished pieces. On one hand, we loved getting to create and personalize our own pieces. We have different interests, styles, and abilities, so it's nice to fly solo in that sense. On the other hand, it would've been more romantic to make one piece, perhaps a more ambitious one, together. Overall, we rated this experience 4 out of 5 stars. Find out more about date nights at Pottery 1 Studio on their website.  |
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