@75GRAND & @99GRAND go to a Strip Club in Albany, NY

VIDEO EVIDENCE -- "A TRIBUTE TO ANDY WARHOL"
by Caroline MotherJudge, Annie Everson & Sten Isachsen 

( video by THE WISCONSIN VIDEO THEATRE.EAST )

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ARCHIVAL PHOTOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE
(pictures by Jan Galligan, documentarian)

BING BANG BAMBOO ROOM, Valentines Club, 2004
featuring Jan & Bob The New State Minstrel Workers, Bess Western and her twin Jess, Guy Smiley, Feathers, Ivy, Miss Marie, Mr. James,  and more ...

The Bamboozeler delivering a comic monologue


4 PHOTOS FOR 3 KINGS DAY (in Puerto Rico)

Screen shot with graffiti -- Three Kings icons 
01-06-16 -- Three Kings Day, Bayamon, PR

TRAVEL ADVISORY

Set out on the daily trip to Walgreens to buy wine for dinner, and this time, a pack of Winston. Was told by the clerk that because it was Three Kings Day they were not allowed to sell alcohol or cigarettes. Spent the next hour driving around the barrios, looking for an open bar or bodega. Finally found one near Guaraguao. 

Lesson: stock up, the day before.

Screen shot of Three Kings icons for scratch-off lotto tickets (no cigarettes for us thank you)

Coke machines next to big box store entrance (our drink -- Cuba Libre, sin Fidel)

Shopping mall parking lot (don't even think of getting drunk and trying to tempt her)


Photos by Jan Galligan, The Holidays of 2015/16, Bayamon, PR




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Jan Galligan 
75Grand/sur
Santa Olaya, PR

AVALANCHE -- a briefer

AVALANCHE magazine, RUMBLES, Issue 13, summer 1976.


Historical Note (via the Museum of Modern Art, archives)

Avalanche was co-founded by Liza Béar and Willoughby Sharp in New York City in 1968. The impetus for the magazine's creation was to intentionally challenge the more critic-based, formalist-driven, art journals such as Art Forum. The mission of Avalanche was to give artists a voice, a space to discuss their works, their creative processes, and even their political opinions. Béar and Sharp focused their attention on those artists who circulated in avant-garde circles of the 1960s and 1970s, both in New York and internationally. They paid particular attention to those artists who considered themselves practitioners of Conceptual, Post-Minimalist, Earth, performance and video art ...

Each issue included artist interviews, extensive photographic spreads, and textual documents of various artists' works. Additionally, each issue (except for issues no. 6 and no. 9) included a "Rumbles" section, which promoted and described current art world events as well as recent publications and artist messages. 

The thirteenth and final issue of Avalanche was published in the summer of 1976. Production ceased largely due to finacial strains. Béar and Sharp were transparent about the magazine's economic troubles by choosing to reproduce a page of their ledger book on its final cover.



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75Grand/sur
Santa Olaya, PR

"RABBITS," they said, simultaneously.

Passenger -- waiting area, Jet Blue terminal, Luis Munoz Marin International Airport, San Juan, PR, 01-01-16  @ 1:16PM, photo by Jan Galligan


Steve Fisher, of Prague, CZ taught us many years ago, that if one can remember to say, "Rabbits..." first thing upon waking on the first day of the new year, it will bring luck to the one who says it. According to Steve, this also works on the first day of each month. He didn't explain if the monthly recitations are reinforcements of the annual declaration, or intended as ritual incantations for each specific month. Regardless, it seems like a little preparation at the beginning could be worth the effort.




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75Grand/sur
Santa Olaya, PR