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HOW TO START A COMEDY SCENE

WORDS / MARTY SHUTTER Improv and stand-up are strange bedfellows. They both take practice, dedication and preparedness. When an improviser t...
  • byKody Ford
  • Dec 19, 2013
Art

TRAPPING TIME: A conversation with artist Matt Miller

WORDS / MARTY SHUTTER PHOTO / COLLEY BAILEY Matt Miller is an artist who almost fell deeply into the calculated world of money.  He was nea...
  • byKody Ford
  • Dec 18, 2013
Music

The Idle Class Issue 1 Music Sampler

The response for issue 1 has been phenomenal.  As promised, we’ve compiled a music sampler of some of Arkansas’ finest artists....
  • byKody Ford
  • Feb 8, 2013
Poetry

Bryan (A story-poem on the virtue of determination)

By Marty Shutter  I Will Be Eating Spider Through the Fall Yesterday, watching my fan chains sway in the rhythm of their master centered in...
  • byKody Ford
  • Oct 8, 2012
Prose

Executive Heroism

By Marty Shutter EXECUTIVE HEROISM: FINAL MOMENTS OF ONE CIVILIZATION Ours is a government of tire inflation guidelines file cabinet hallway...
  • byKody Ford
  • Sep 12, 2012
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A Conversation with Michael Glazer of The Second City

Marty Shutter Contributing Editor  One night earlier in 2012 leaning between us at bar, Julie asks Michael and I, “When does it begin...
  • byKody Ford
  • Aug 29, 2012
Poetry

The Winds

By Marty Shutter What is it with the winds how internally they scurry us about ripping not yet dead leaves from trees throwing them to the ...
  • byKody Ford
  • Jul 8, 2012
Poetry

The Hemingways Left

By Marty Shutter the hemmingways of the northside of chicago remain still ride their bikes leaving in their wakes destruction weaker women t...
  • byKody Ford
  • Jul 8, 2012
Poetry

Why

By Marty Shutter The dust and rocks and asteroids meteors and cosmic rays showering ours and every earth every day must bring with them some...
  • byKody Ford
  • Jul 8, 2012
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