Buffalo Rising Online

The series features contemporary writers and interesting books for open, thoughtful discussion. Each live broadcast will include a reading from the author, an exchange with the host and questions from the studio audience. A reception follows featuring a book signing thus giving the author opportunity to speak one-on-one with studio audience.

David Hajdu will be discussing his book The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America. In the years between World War II and the emergence of television as a mass medium, American popular culture as we know it was first created—in the pulpy, boldly illustrated pages of comic books. No sooner had this new culture emerged than it was beaten down by church groups, community bluestockings, and a McCarthyish Congress—only to resurface with a crooked smile on its face in Mad magazine. The story of the rise and fall of those comic books has never been fully told—until The Ten-Cent Plague. David Hajdu’s remarkable new book vividly opens up the lost world of comic books, its creativity, irreverence, and suspicion of authority.

Wayne Hancock has been called "the master of Hillbilly swing," a "roots Renaissance man," a "country singer's country singer" and "Hank Williams meets Gershwin." But the phrase most frequently echoed throughout his career is "Wayne Hancock is the real deal." Joe Ely said it, Hank Williams III said it, Bobby Koefer from the Texas Playboys said it, as have countless music fans and writers when referring to Hancock's authentic and original blend of honky tonk, western swing, blues and big band that he calls "Juke Joint Swing".

Sickboy Productionz presents Mankind is Obsolete and Kryszt at Club W! Come check them out!

L.A.'s Mankind is Obsolete (MKIO) is a female fronted industrial rock band. Kryszt, Tearwave and Pollock get things started.