Rabid Rabbit #8 “Tribute to the Beatles White album” is now available. Urban Molecule’s own Edwin Vazkez was asked to interpret “Mother Nature’s Song.”
From his blog:
This comic strip was very fun to work on. The theme for RR #8 is the White Album by the Beatles. Blind luck I guess that they are one of [...]

Scofield: A Man Greater Than the Sum of His Parts
by Christopher de la Torre, UM Editor
I hadn’t known Stewart for long, but by the second email exchange I had already found him to be exquisitely open-minded and creative to the bone. According to his own words, he didn’t tolerate stupidity very well, nor superficiality, nor [...]

The third volume of short fiction by Jillian Elisabetta Ciaccia is now available. Monstrosities is composed of eleven literary portraits concentrating on the creation and process of objects, both organic and inorganic. Animal crackers. Maraschino cherries. A freckle and Nylon stockings. You won’t look at your world the same.
As with the two previous volumes, [...]

We’d like to let you know about two new stellar columnists who’ve just joined the team. And beginning next week you can check out these new columns right here!
LONG STORY SHORT | Every other Tuesday, beginning March 25th
Josh Livingston, a Brooklyn-based design professional and weekly self-documenter, picks at culture like loose threads on a jacket. [...]

Last night Skyler Chen, in association with Doma Cafe and Gallery, opened his first exhibit for The Republic of Norman Collection. Quite a nice crowd of supporters, we must say. And the wine… Of course the Molecule was there to rally for Skyler.
Only one glass was broken, thank our lucky molecules! And that was only [...]

Sunday, March 16 at 3pm
Announcing the world premiere of
The Restless Yearning Towards Myself
by Perry Brass
A Musical Collaboration and a Transformative Work in Healing the Heart
St. Marks in the Bowery — 10th Street and 2nd Avenue
“Yesterday, I went to a rehearsal of ‘Restless Yearning,’ and it made me feel that this is going to be a [...]

UM1.1 cover artist Luis Colan is on his way to London! Well, not exactly. But his work is.
From Luis Colan’s blog:
“Just recently the Moleskine company contacted me wanting to use my sketchbook as some kind of marketing device for their product. They requested…the sketchbook for the London Book Fair, and of course I agreed. Why [...]

What is age and longevity, and how do our histories, memories, records of failures and accomplishments, loves and hurts, past passions and hatreds, affect them? Will jettisoning the past increase your ability to live longer without the burdens of memory? And what do we become without a past, or a past that is only manufactured [...]

UM1.1’s Skyler Chen presents his collection “The Republic of Norman” at Doma Cafe and Gallery from March 18 to April 13, 2008. Don’t miss the opening reception Tuesday, March 18 from 6-8pm.
Doma is located at 17 Perry Street (off of 7th Ave South), NYC. 212-929-4339.
www.chenskyler.blogspot.com
chenskyler@yahoo.com

See Skyler Chen’s Republic of Norman for yourself.

 The Molecule caught up with Jonathan Fritz at his January 24th Show at Sheep Station in Brooklyn. Collaborating with his autistic pupil Gabriel Debalmann, and employing a new funky fresh medium, these works drew quite the crowd. Venturing out on a cold night was nothing compared to the heat on those canvases!
Fritz gave us a few words about [...]