tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-224590182012-01-31T15:01:36.598-05:00<br>Wherein a leading art book publisher sets up shop in a vibrant, up-and-coming neighborhood in Brooklyn. A forum for communication about events, ideas, sales, news, and things we find exciting.powerHouse Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11582086665727342014noreply@blogger.comBlogger1941100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22459018.post-10607035769030796662007-06-13T12:38:00.000-04:002007-06-13T12:44:59.858-04:00

Thank god Skinema author Chris Nieratko was part of our time at the Book Expo America book fair. 'Twould have been a dismal day, but with all of our authors' general merrymaking, we might actually be excited for next year.See the Expo from Chris' eyes here!

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Fred Segal Flair hosted a little fete for powerHouse author Janette Beckman's Made in the UK.From Janette: "There were British DJs playing punky tunes and customers drinking shandy and Pimms while munching on crisps and Twiglets. Jeannine Braden the gorgeous owner of the store decorated the mannequins with safety pins through their noses and Union Jack bandanas to go with the Marc Jacobs

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Like A Thief's Dream by Danny Lyon, out in August, received a little BookForum love. Read here.

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Check out this Friday night action at the Arena! Gawker, you know, that snarky little gossip blog that people actually pay attention to, showed up at our Book Expo America after party, photographing what they thought were the best looking people in publishing—which, believe you me, if you knew this industry, was quite an assignment!They made a selection of both men and women, and have created a “

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At the Javits Center this past weekend for the Book Expo America convention, Vice publisher Gavin McInnes (pictured above) or rather Derrick Beckles of VBS.tv impersonating said publisher, was there to stir up the crowd and make the day MUCH more livelier than it otherwise would have been. He was promoting the second edition of Vice's Dos & Don'ts 2: 13 Years of Vice Magazine's Street Fashion

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Two new shows up at the powerHouse Arena...Magnum photographer David Alan Harvey documents hip hop's finger print across the world with Living Proof...and...Wild Style The Sampler by Charlie Ahearn celebrates the 25th anniversary of the film that defined the hip hop generation...Check, www.powerhousearena.com for more informationand with the Book Expo America fair this weeekend, we're up to our

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Galapagos Art Space is headed to our side of town, so says the NY Times. GAS cites rising rent in their Williamsburg digs as the reason for the move. In keeping with the artistic and cultural flavor of the neighborhood that Two Trees has been mindful to maintain, Galapagos is the ideal new tenant.It's like we're getting a little sister!And we're totally impressed with GAS' green attitude. "At 16

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"My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person doing something unfamous. It's being in the right place at the wrong time. That's why my favorite photographer is Ron Galella."-Andy WarholRon is an easy interview. He likes to talk. He speaks about photography with a vintage enthusiasm and afterward, I feel as though I've just taken a class on photojournalism. He's 76 years

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I actually found my way to the tree-lined neighborhood of Ron Galella. And I wasn't late! Montville, New Jersey, feels rural and suburban and a much more peaceful haven, I'm sure, than their former digs in Yonkers.The Galellas mailbox is decorated with bunnies. "Wait, am I at the correct house?" I park on the street instead of using the circular driveway with fountain, which I thought might be

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Driving in New Jersey is ridiculous. Oh, but you already knew that, right? "You're so brave," is the reaction I got most when telling people that I was driving out to Montville. "But I'm from Los Angeles," I declared. "Driving is like breathing to me."So I headed boldly to Avis and got me a steel blue Dodge Charger...After tackling the mess of NY/NJ roads and byways, I will say this: What you

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(above: Aldo Perez, below: Kevin Devine)I was late to Saturday night's Dumbolio. Having gotten hopelessly lost on countless Jersey country roads, somehow, miraculously, I made it out of the Holland Tunnel, over the Manhattan Bridge, and into DUMBO. I parked the rental in the first space I could find and booked it to the Arena, as I was supposed to be filming the entire performance. Whoops.When I

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The powerHouse Arena is rearranging our concrete book tables yet again, this time for playwright Ed Schmidt’s monthly variety show, Dumbolio. Tomorrow night even includes origami. Brave the rain. Food and drink, of course, will be present.

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Yeah, so apparently people were offended.Last weekend, powerHouse hosted a portion of the BKLYN Designs fair in our Arena gallery space. Generally, when the Arena is rented for specialty functions such as these, any art up on the walls is taken down. BKLYN Designs asked that only the explicit images from The Male Gaze (currently on display) be hidden or removed because of the large amounts of

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The blog is resurrected.Just off the jet from California. New apartment, new job, new voice at powerHouse.Speaking of the jet, I watched over four hours of television while on the flight from Los Angeles. My attention span astounds me when on airplanes. A few months ago on my way home from Tokyo, I shamefully admit that I was able to watch The Lake House in its entirety. During my recent travels

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Just like the title says, the powerHouse Books' 2006 Move Blog has moved itself.... to myspace. You don't have to be a member to read the blog, but we encourage you to sign up and add us a friend to hear about upcoming events, promotions, and other awesome stuff. The archived blog will be kept here indefinitely. See you on myspace!—pH

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The powerHouse Arena hits Myspace! Finnnalllllly. Add us as a friend to keep up-to-date with events and goings-on.... like the panel with Patti Astor and FAB 5 Freddy followed by a screening of the classic hip hop movie WIld Style in the beginning of October. When you ask? Add us and find out!!http://www.myspace.com/powerhousearena.

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We just got a mysterious email from our boy A-ron the Downtown Don.... Seems aNYthing is going through some of what we experienced awhile back. We're a little sketchy on the details, but that doesn't mean bootstrapping cultural entities shouldn't stick together. Plus he said there's a sale. Out with the credit cards! To the store!

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Edith Hamilton would be proud: like Orpheus and Euridice, Phaedra and Hippolytus (ewww), or Achilles and Patroclus, so powerHouse and Perseus.

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Do you or does someone you know work in plastic? We want your help! We're making an ultra-luxe limited edition book and need a fabricator who knows all about polymers. Piqued your interest? Drop us a line.

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Well it's about time. Preview our upcoming show! Buy portfolios from pH artists! See cool renderings of our future home! The powerHouse Arena dot com!!

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Seen on the corner of Prince and Elizabeth, NYC

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Do we hear a leak? Someone call a plumber!

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No wonder they call it The Grey Lady.

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Grab your earplugs and duck for cover!!Jesse Jane Beckington with music by Matt and Kim on pHytonics.

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Those yetis are pretty annoying, huh?

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The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what it is that interests you and that you can do well, and when you find it, put your whole soul into it -- every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have.- John D. Rockefeller III

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Slava Mogutin explodes on the web.

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We bet our bottom dollar you ain't seen nothing like this before. Dude said he's watched Pedal, and we quote, "34504356 times."

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Slava Mogutin: political dissent or fashion darling? Slava is on the JC Report this week... a bimonthly email magazine providing an insider's view on fashion trends emerging around the world. Photo by Slava Mogutin, from the forthcoming Lost Boys.

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Petey Sutherland's newest venture is The Chinatown Soccer Club.... It's like sports for the Todd P set or something. And there's T-shirts! Thats's as much as we know. Extra points if you can catch the hot-to-trot Sutherland running by the lens! The Chinatown Soccer Club.

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Which is better than a stick in the eye. Look at my doppelganger doing the Funky Chicken, everybody pointin', even cap man can't believe it (and poor l'il mohawk, the crowd pleaser, didn't get this kinda notice): everybody had a ball at the LC Outdoors event for We B* Girlz, even though the damn book and even Martha Cooper were nowhere to be seen. Still, it was fun. Especially when these two

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The new mag post does nicely crystalize what we think we might hope to be onto...world hegemony! Not that another reason is needed to expand the psychic head space over in the far corner of the office, but the rapid firing of one-finger typing in the form of a constant tick-tick-tick-tick, tick-tick-ticking white noise background has a sort of comforting soothing effect, knowing that all is right

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Because some breeders couldn't hack Samuri Power Vibe style in LA. Not that we could either, but the SM farmer's market on Staurdays makes Union Square look like...an exercise in liberal eeanestness, as oopposed to....um, skeezer outlaws? With killer citrus specimans?....Hey, you can put the top down....hey, look: the homeless that used to be in NYC! How's it going? Um, sort of played out on

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In late breaking news of a just-too-crazy-to-believe sort, mild mannered lawyer Arthur Frank's riveting distillation of the Wyoming cowboy, published by yours truly last year, was seized upon in a last ditch effort to line up Western support for the U.S. administration's position on Hezbollah's entrenched efforts to destabilize Israel's sovereignty: rope 'em up and tie 'em down.Reaction from U.S.

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best solution we've seen for displaying your "erotica" photo books and whimsical investigations into bodily functions; if you're interested, we'll sell you a 2 for 1 pH shower set: one set for keeps and one for play. A book's not happy until he's loved. And caressed. With loving suds. Bubbles away!

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Chris is an affable nutter who makes Sebastian Junger look like a twinkie in a tutu at a tea party. That may be a little alliteratively excessive, but what's not in today's journo crack den of entertainment trafficking! Here, have some more pipeline stuffer!

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You can type whatever. Or so Nick thinks, in creating a template "blog posting for (a) dummy." (He is out of town this week, or has emigrated to Canada, one of the two). I am attempting to edit in html, so it's like...man, who the heck thought of this... but if I hit this compose button....ahh, that is more like email. For us dummies.Well now, what shall I talk about? I don't have anything to say

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Or so says PW.... Check out pH publisher Daniel Power and PR machine Miss Rosen this week!

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See Ricky Powell up close and personal at aNYthing, 51 Hester, on Thursday. He'll be signing books and (if we know our Ricky) getting his game on with 1: the camera, 2: the ladies, or 3: both. Mostly likely 3. Oh ssit!

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By way of The African Game.

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Susanne Konig is all up in Rencontre d'Arles right now. As, apparently, is Pop Photo. Click "Photo Gallery." Go team!

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Another Power makes his way on to the old internet. Enjoy!

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Peter Sutherland, best-selling auteur behind Pedal and Autograf, is finding his roots this week with a screening in Minneapolis MN at the Bicycle Film Festival there. And if the frozen north is your bag, Sutherland's photographs from his hometown in Michigan are forthcoming on pHytonics!

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Lisa is hotter than the Sahara right now... and we got our hands on photograhps that have never been published! Check out all the goods at pHytonics.

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A little alliteration never hurt, right? Groan. Well apparently pHytonics is Simon Dumenco’s Pop Pick of the week! Dumenco has a column called Media Guy on Ad Age's site, generally considered to be the best catalogue of a thinking man's pleasures on the web. It's running online and in print, so check out one at least; lazybones. And keep your eyes peeled for more info about Dumenco on this very

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Our summer workshop series will be in the new issue of PDN! And no wonder: we've got classes by Publisher Daniel Power, Senior Designer Kiki Bauer, Publicity Director and Publisher of Miss Rosen Miss Sara (you guessed it) Rosen, and Managing Editor Nicholas Weist. Peep the details.

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So many meetings! We're busy finishing the upcoming season, for which we'll have more delicious titles than ever before...but until then you'll just have to snack on this. Or this. Or this. You know, whatever strikes your fancy.

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Paul Mpagi Sepuya opens today on pHytonics: his intimate protraits were a hit recently at Art Basel, and he's currently in a group show at Stefan Stux. See the work or see an interview.

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The pets of the rich and famous on PopPhoto and and a tantalizing piece of pH gossip at PDN. Blogtastic!

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No one informed us of course....but what the hell. Never hurts to be bi-coastal, right?Courtesy of our crack pH reporter Richard McNeace.

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Our fave photo mage sends us some digital love today, at popphoto. Oh yeah, did we tell you pHytonics had launched for reals? Well it has, and so far it's friggin' exploding.

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Commies, West Coast style mavens Upper Playground, Tolstoy, graf legend Mear One, and Arabic hip hop crew Euphrates all under one roof? In fucking Williamsburg?! Strange but true... and the kind folks at People's Weekly World even give US a shoutout in their article about the whole ordeal. Was anyone NOT there?

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...so much so that they are hosting an exhibition and book signing for Jimmy and Dena Katz's Salt Dreams. It opens tomorrow, with free signatures and hopefully a little booze from 6 to 9, at 526 W 26th Street.

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What ho! How now, blogosphere?Dtourist.Curbed.

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In the form of The African Game, a brand new book from PUMA, distributed by powerHouse Books. See it. Love it. Buy it.

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powerHouse is thrilled to announce that we have loaded a sneak preview of our new online venture, pHytonics.net, for all y'all in blogland. pHytonics is an online gallery that will feature weekly updates of shows by contemporary artists. First up is William Lamson, a young photographer we've had our eye on for quite some time. Visit pHytonics.net.

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OH MAH GOD OH MAH GOD! Glenn O'Brien has a blog! Glenn is pretty much the founder of cool in NYC: he's been at the top of his game as a tastemaker for more than twenty years now and has made more and more interesting things than almost anybody. We could go on and on and on and on, but it's probably best to let him speak for himself. Glenn O'Brien's Blog.Photo by Maripol, from Maripolarama.

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Pirate Pete Sutherland is sailing toward Most Toasted pH Author this month, with parties across the damn country and abroad. Below is from his show in Seattle. It's like the mail room at 4 Times Square up in this piece!Woo ha!

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Here's a new one:"This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification.Unable to deliver message to the following recipients, due to being unable to connect successfully to the destination mail server.adam@SeymourButts.com"Sucks our message didn't get through to SEYMOURBUTTS.COM!!

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Rush Limbaugh calls out Pees on Earth in a quarter-page article in his newsletter, calling us the "arts-and-croissants crowd," and little Ellen Jong a "lib photographer," as if there were any other kind.Maybe he could organize a book burning and give us a sales bump too! We're hungry: anyone have a croissant?

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Beer halls and bike messengers: we can't think of a better combination. Pedal screens in Berlin on June 21, and we got our hands on the poster getting wheatpasted all over Germany.

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Oooh yeeeeah. Even the industry is throwing some love to our Summer Workshop Series. Our boys at Anthem some it up nicely: we'll make you famous.

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Whenever someone wants to comment on one of our posts, we get an email notification with the message and a "yes or no." Few might know this, but spam has grown past email, and has moved into the blogosphere. Spammers attempt to add comments like "Hey I found this cool site about Hoodia" or "C1AL1$$ Soft Tabs Melt Fat Away!!!!" Well today we received notice for this comment. In translation, it

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Introducing M. Suavé De Bonnair: the alter ego of our sales guy, Wes. For more of these photos trés enchanté, visit the online album we made.

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Petey "The Pirate" Sutherland (so called because of his eye patch and scurvy: hi Peter!) sends word that the new issue of Arkitip has a section about his soccer crew Chinatown Soccer Club, and comes complete with a jersey! That could be useful on the open seas, we thinks. Arr ye limeys, avast! Petey's been Shanghai'ed!

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Petey "The Pirate" Sutherland (so called because of his eye patch and scurvy: hi Peter!) sends word that the new issue of Arkitip has a section about his soccer crew Chinatown Soccer Club, and comes complete with a jersey! That could be useful on the open seas, we thinks. Arr! Avast! Petey's been Shanghaied!

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Just got some snaps back from Book Expo America, the annual industry conference. This year we partnered with Saatchi & Saatchi for a Lovemarks-themed booth. More to come...

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Well no one's really pushing, but we can hardly keep them things on the shelves. Maybe it's this guy?:Photo by Peter Sutherland, from Pedal.

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From an email this morning to our general box:We are so thrilled at the thought of having your bookstore in DUMBO. We've been living at One Main for years and longing to be able to walk out the door and get a book, without Amazon, Barnes & Noble, etc. Thank you so much and we'll be there for the opening!Man, we can't wait to see what they say when we actually open in September!

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Bonnie, Caro, your sweet, sweet songs are welcome in these trying times. Trim the sails! Avast ye hearties, to the siren's rock!

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Lookout! The powerHouse summer workshop series is just around the corner! We've got a killer lineup this year, with classes taught by Daniel Power (Publisher, powerHouse Books), Kiki Bauer (Senior Deisgner, powerHouse Books), Sara Rosen (Publisher, Miss Rosen Editions, PR DIrector, powerHouse Books), and Nicholas Weist (Managing Editor, powerHouse Books). And you don't even have to buy a textbook

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Far and away the artist most heavily featured on The powerHouse Books' 2006 Move blog, Jeff Mermelstein is a top pick because of his intense, witty, and sometimes ridiculous imagery. His book No Title Here is an insane trip down Jeff's personal rabbit hole, to a place where monkeys are addicted to porn, armadillos are racing animals, and this kind of satuff happens. He has a show opening tonight

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This weekend will be crazy—two parties, Brooklyn Design Fair, and a ton of other crazy stuff. First at bat is Tokion sponsoring a screening of Pedal at the Anthology Film Archives.Then Lili Almog's show of work from Perfect Intimacy opens at Andrea Meislin Gallery. On top of all that, as previously mentioned, powerHouse is hosting Brooklyn Designs: a weekendful of homegrown, A-list genius. Whew.

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We had know idea there was so much philanthropy going on right under our noses! Or over our noses as the case may be. Not only is the big kahuna pretty civic-minded, but our vice principal is as well. Turns out he was on a scholarship panel for Datacolor and Parsons, as reported by Businesswire.

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And in the body of the email?:"Nice to see you!I am ready to kill myself and eat my dog, if medicine prices here (http://XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX) are bad.Look, the site and call me 1-800 if its wrong.. My dog and I are still alive :)"Phew. Good thing the prices are okay. —pH

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It's like a special on the Discovery Channel in here!VRAHOS needled and needled even after they evicted us from our home. We thought it would end when we left, but ooh noo. We were wrong. VRAHOS dug up some old, angry bones this morning with a letter to our lawyer Neil. They're insisting that we pay two months of rent, for a period when we weren't even their tenant! Is there no end to their

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In case you haven't noticed, we loooove to congratualte ourselves. Not to be smug, but sometimes it's entirely warranted. In an effort to document the why and wherefor, we've created a page that catalogues our awards and accolades. Doesn't it feel great to win?

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Did you know that back in the days the phrase above indicated that someone had used "the speak of the devil," meaning they spoke a person's name to conjure them into their midst? Like when pH writes Joe Rodriguez's name on their blog and he suddenly appears in the office?! Joe just got back from Estonia, where he was teaching a seminar on photography. Maybe we should go there and teach a seminar

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"MORE PORN IN ART!" is the cry echoing across the hallowed halls of the ivory tower today, as reported on by our fave sceney journo Art Fag City. She knows that pH reps for the porn set, though, and threw in a mention of Flesh Life: Sex in Mexico City by Joe Rodriguez. Here's lookin' at you AFC:Photo by Joe Rodriguez, from Flesh Life.

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After very little deliberation, the Brooklyn Design Fair's higher-ups have decided that powerHouse will host their event in our new space at 37 Main Street. "It's everything AND the kitchen sink," says Gawker of last year's fair, and it's only gotten bigger, ahem, we mean better, since then. Check back for future updates, or visit them directly right here.

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Photo by Helen Levitt, from Slide Show.

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Remember when "Pedal Pushers" described pants, and not a group of crazed bike messengers, relentlessly promoting a form of cycling that includes NO BRAKES? Well these Pedal Pushers are supporting the premier of the documentary Pedal, which comes packaged with our epynomous book, so they're okay by us.

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If there's one thing you could say about all bloggers everywhere, it's probably that there's nothing they love more than a giant clusterfuck. That's right, we said it. One blog links to another, who links back to the first, who comments on the link, and so on ad naseum. You get the picture. We'll to cut to the chase:MISS ROSEN HAS A BLOG!On the Town with Miss Rosen will take you on a

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Yech. Who's writing these headlines, anyway? Anyway...What happens when Howard Zinn and Nicole Krause get together to make babies? Or Jonathan Safran Foer and Russell Simmons? The answer to both of the above is "a Brooklyn book fair" of course. The four parents-to-be are members of the honorary committee of a new fair, projected to open on September 16 in Borough Hall Plaza. The organizers will

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In case you haven't been to DUMBO to see it yourself, here's how we're advertising our new space. With over 175 running feet of glass frontage, there's plenty of room for signs like this:Photo by Helen Levitt, from Slide Show.

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Sent from a friend at Publishers Weekly, who was in DUMBO recently and had this conversation in an elevator:Guy: Did you see there's a bookstore going in around the corner?Me: Where?Guy: On Main. By Bubby's.Me: Oh, no, that's not a...Guy: Yeah, art books.Me: Actually, they...Guy: I can't wait. it should be awesome. it's such a greeeeaaaat space.Me: No, see...Guy: What a cute dog you have!Me: Yeah

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We just had quintuplets! To celebrate the birth of our five new babies, we're having a little discount party. If you order Gentleman of Leisure, Pedal, Perfect Intimacy, Pees on Earth, or Salt Dreams before the end of the month, you can get 20% off! Just enter the coupon code "SPRINGFLING" at checkout.

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It is with great sadness that we inform you Chimay is dead. Long live Chimay.

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Did you know that Our Benevolent Leader, the Power of powerHouse, is a philanthropist as well as a publisher? Apparently he's spent the past year mentoring an SVA student, whatever that means. After having her brain massaged for these past 12 months, our little Eliza is ready for her close-up. Jesse Jane, as she's known around the office, has a sick portfolio of bi-coastal punks. Who knew there

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We once knew a girl named Tara Hymen. Say it out loud and you'll get it. Tear-a... Never mind. PD, though, this guy is no joke. Not like his brother Buster. Whoa!

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Martha Cooper and her ever-lovin band of fiesty hip hop ladies are in London today: eating crumpets, kissing the queen, screening the film Redder than Red, and signing copies of Marty's book We B*Girlz. The film is about Bubbles, legendary breaker and all-around style queen. Picture Missy with a Cockney accent and better hair and you'll get the idea. To London!

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Our boy wonder Ricknacious L. Powellot has a show up in the hinterlands opening tonight. For all you Canucks that know what's what in the big apple, swing by Brave Art in BC for booze, bitches, and good times. Can you say bitches on the Internet?

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Uh, thanks go to Vapors for this post. We think. Anyone know what Bruknam is? ...And we thought we were so cool.

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So does Dork Warriors 911 protect or protect against the dorks?

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pH is playing Stanley to Boogie's Livingston effective immediately: you can now preorder It's All Good on the pH website. It won't be in stores 'til October, but it's already makin' waves. Peep the pictures here, or pony up for a book and get $15 off the next time you order here.

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Whether Easter or Passover, it's all over and done with now...so get back to work you ninnies! Oh, except you Greeks. You all can continue to rape and pillage for a full week before taking your hard-earned break.

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