Located in southern Mexico, just northwest of Chiapas and the Guatemalan border, Oaxaca is among the wealthier states in the country, culturally. It is also resource-rich, producing abundant agriculture, meat, fish, and other delights that continue to attract well-heeled Mexicans and expatriates from the rest of North America and Europe. For them, and for me, […]
A Saturday Afternoon in Brooklyn
The Hard Crackers Release Party for Issue #9 on Saturday, January 7th, went off with a bang, not of the NYPD variety. Between 20 and 30 people were in attendance. The Freddy’s Bar Backroom was filled. John Garvey gave an introduction and laid out the Hard Crackers journey since our last event at Freddy’s, which was […]
Plowshares into Swords: John Brown and the Poet of Rage: An Appreciation of the Work of Russell Banks
The novelist Russell Banks died on January 7, 2023. We are publishing this appreciation of his work by Beth Henson that first appeared in Race Traitor #10 (Winter, 1999). Beth does a wonderful job describing Russell Banks’s “voyages” through the discontents of people’s daily lives. The Hard Crackers editors are especially thankful to Beth for agreeing […]
Special Treatment
1990’s Chicago was not Thatcher’s Britain of the 1980’s. The music of The Specials, while of a specific context, still contained elements which would resonate quite loudly across the sea of time and space, and allowed kids of the future to vibe with their music and message. I was one of those kids. Terry Hall, […]
Hard Crackers Magazine Issue #9 Release Event
Where: Freddy’s Bar (the Backroom) 627 5th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY (Between 17th & 18th Street) When: Saturday Afternoon, January 7, 2023 2 – 4 pm Program: Readings by Hard Crackers writers Songs performed by John Pinamonti Sledgehammer […]
Cosmos!
On October 1, 1977, Edson Arantes do Nascimento, a/k/a “Pelé” played his last game as a professional footballer. The game was played at New Jersey’s Giants Stadium, across the Hudson River from midtown Manhattan’s Port Authority Bus Station in New York City, a truly seedy place, but one where soccer fans without cars could drop […]