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What’s Your Deal, Sage and Jared’s Happy Gland Band?
April 17, 2014
Sage & Jared’s Happy Gland Band will be unleashing happiness upon Pyragraph’s ReLaunch party, and we’re feeling positively engorged. More
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Burning Questions for Sini Anderson, Director of The Punk Singer Inga chats with her former flatmate about Sister Spit, sobriety and filmmaking
April 17, 2014
Sini Anderson co-founded Sister Spit, the raucous spoken word tour, and directed The Punk Singer, an award-winning doc about Bikini Kill’s Kathleen Hanna. More
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What’s Your Deal, Cactus Tractor?
April 14, 2014
Cactus Tractor is a multi-person Bohemian Pop Folk Disco (beau-pop-faux-disc) band based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. More
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Burning Questions for Rick Lowe, founder of Project Row Houses How the project morphed from art to community revitalization
April 14, 2014
Rick Lowe’s Project Row Houses began as 22 abandoned shotgun-style houses in Houston’s Third Ward, one of the city’s oldest African-American communities. More
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What’s Your Deal, Floozy?
April 11, 2014
I’m telling you, people, Floozy is fun. I’ve played a few shows with them here in Abuquerque and never fail to enjoy their energy, their spark. The last show we did together was an all-women Lou Reed tribute—at the end of … More
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What’s Your Deal, AJ Woods?
April 9, 2014
AJ plays folk rock songs that are somehow both timeless and evocative of an earlier time; I’m not sure how he accomplishes that. More
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Burning Questions with Brett Sparks of The Handsome Family Brett shares his recording secrets and what he thinks of "True Detective"
April 8, 2014
The Handsome Family’s spare, supernatural and timeless sound on their recordings is no accident. Brett Sparks shared how he captures that sound. More
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What’s Your Deal, James Judd?
April 4, 2014
James Judd is a monologist (a fancy word for “storyteller”) who lives in Manhattan. Years ago he and I shared an office at a legal publisher in Berkeley. More
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Burning Questions for Marty Crandall of High Desert Marty takes a break from moving to answer questions and share a preview track
April 1, 2014
It is time to rejoice again, for Marty is about to release a new album, this time with a project called High Desert. More
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Attitude Change: I Am An Artist #20
March 17, 2014
If an artist finds commercial success, does it mean she’s necessarily sold out? Can money reliably be the result of authentic/natural art? More
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Burning Questions with New Orleans Gallery Owner Taylor Lyon
March 6, 2014
I’ve known plenty of very talented artists who just couldn’t get their careers going cause they weren’t willing to go down to the mines and dig it up. More
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Burning Questions with Duct Tape Joe, New Orleans Sideshow Clown
March 4, 2014
I first met him before all the face tattoos, back in Florida when he was 15, painting his eyelashes white and sewing other people’s hair into his own hair. More
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Burning Questions with Artist Panhandle Slim Attracting both fans and vandals with his public art
February 25, 2014
The painting of Barack Obama had been defaced with appalling graffiti. Stunned, I contacted Panhandle Slim to ask him a few Burning Questions. More
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Burning Questions for James Sturm, Center for Cartoon Studies Director
February 10, 2014
James Sturm is director and co-founder of the Vermont-based Center for Cartoon Studies, a school devoted to cartooning and sequential storytelling. More
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Affordable Care Act Resources for Creatives Pyragraph's favorite sources of info on Obamacare
November 18, 2013
Here’s our list of best resources for creatives on researching and choosing a health insurance product under Obamacare. Please share yours in the comments.
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Resources
Dear Rich: How Do I Get Paid for Book Illustration?
If a book deal is in the works, and you feel you are entitled to a cut of the earnings, you should seek to become a party to the publishing contract. More
Music Licensing 101
How do you get your music into the hands of music supervisors, those gatekeepers who decide whose music is heard during an episode of “Justified”? More
Dear Rich: My Documentary. Her Idea. Who Owns It?
“Good ideas are common — what’s uncommon are people who’ll work hard enough to bring them about.” More
Contracts and Agreements 101
The more that you are actively working in your field — whether that means writing for magazines, playing music at clubs, hosting gallery events or building furniture for a hotel — the more you’ll find yourself needing to execute contracts with other businesses and people. More
