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By now you’ve probably heard Performance Space 122 is holding their 2013 Spring Gala on June 10th at NYC’s El Museo del Barrio. This year, they are honoring Councilwoman Rosie Mendez, chef Gabrielle Hamilton, and our very own Amanda Palmer...

hola comrades. a lot of people asked for this, so here it be: the text from my talk at Grub Street’s 2013 “The Muse and the Marketplace” conference. they’d invited me about 6 months before the conference to give the...

hello dear comrades down: thoaty-sick and battling a fever and i kind of want to lie down and die. but i’m not doing that. i’m on a train to new york to do a benefit to save the mermaid parade....

Do you want to dance? Do you want to fight? Do you want to put up posters in the night?? AFP and The Grand Theft Orchestra are hitting the road to make up the postponed dates: starting in Europe and...

hello dear friends. first some quick news, then the dumping of my soul. it came together fast as a slippery lady fish….i’m going to be appearing at a benefit to SAVE THE MERMAID PARADE of coney island. may 25, bowery...

This past March, AFP crossed paths with filmmaker/documentarian Ondi Timoner (“DIG!”, “We Live in Public”) at Austin’s SXSW. The two became allies quickly, and Ondi shot some concert and interview footage of Amanda while they began brainstorming a collaborative effort...

this is me and ondi. if you missed the announcement elsewhere, i’m heavily involved in a kickstarter project that has only a few days to go. the goal is to help filmmaker ondi timoner fund “a total disruption“…she’s basically crowdfunding...

i had dinner with anthony tonight, in bedford, near lexington…a little italian joint in a strip mall. he’s been ok. alive. not great but in what we call the cancer “clearing in the woods”. still surrounded by forest, but uncertain...

hola comrades. it’s been a hard week – but i wouldn’t trade my life for anything. i’m currently blogging from a cafe near seattle. i’m sitting next to cliff, a marine veteran. i asked him what kind of veteran, because...

hello from the fine old american northwest… where i just delivered one of the first series of kickstarter parties in seattle, about to do one in portland, and will blog bad-ass photos when i get a sec. AND i just...