We will be celebrating the release of issue 16 by Dave Eggers this coming Tuesday, January 17 at THE THING Quarterly's office from 8:15-9:30PM. We will have beer and food. There will be music. And Dave Eggers will be there to give a reading and sign issues. Come down and say hello and have a beer. We are very excited about this issue and the response has been amazing: The LA Times, The Guardian UK, Cool Hunting, and Notcot.

Details on the Party:
When: Tuesday January 17, 8:15-9:30 PM
Where: THE THING Quarterly Office: 3285 20th Street (at Folsom) in SF
What: Music, Drinks, Issue signing and reading
How Much: Free!

The issue is available until we sell out. And we've made quite a few of these. They will be available in SF at our Office, the Curiosity Shoppe,and Park Life . Of course, they can also be had by subscribing or by purchasing as a single issue on our website. To order click below:

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shipping to subscribers at the San Francisco Main Post Office, January 6th



We are pleased to announce that Dave Egger's issue 16 is available beginning today, Friday Jan 6th. We officially sent the issue to subscribers and those who pre-ordered this afternoon. It will be available until we sell out. And we've made quite a few of these, so there's plenty of time. It will also be available in select stores beginning Monday January 16.


The issue has received some great press so far: The LA Times, The Guardian UK, Cool Hunting, and Notcot.

We are planning on hosting a release party later this month with Dave here in San Francisco. More info on this coming soon.

The issue is available as an individual or as part of the subscription. To order click below:

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image by Lenny Gonzalez.

Issue 15 by Macfadden & Thorpe is on its way to the subscribers. We wrapped it this past Wednesday, Nov. 16 at the Verdi Club in San Francisco with the help of 150 friends and subscribers. Matthew Troy played the tunes, Macfadden & Thorpe arrived in historical military outfits (as befitted the issue), and the issue was wrapped and stacked. It's heading off to subscribers today.

We will release back issues this next week. More info coming.

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We are proud to announce that Filmmaker and Visual Artist Mike Mills is joining THE THING Quarterly as a contributor for issue 18, due out this summer 2012. Mike Mills is an LA based visual artist and Filmmaker whose work includes the films Thumbsucker, and this year's Beginners (with Ewan MacGregor, Christopher Plummer and Mélanie Laurent). We've been a big fan of Mike's visual art and films for a long time and after seeing Beginners, which is damn amazing, we were further motivated to get him on board. We are looking forward to working with Mike on his issue.
You can find out more about Mike Mills here.

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Issue 9 Parallel BlackJacks Tournament, THE THING Quarterly Office, Spring 2011

Wrapping Party for MacFadden & Thorpe's Issue 15!


When:Time: 6-8PM

Where:Verdi Club: 2424 Mariposa Street, San Francisco, CA 94110

Cost:Free

Beer:Yes (cash bar)

FoodYes, for sure!

Music:Yes! Matthew Troy will be spinning theme appropriate music from his DJ consul

Kids:Bring em if you gotem

IT WILL BE AMAZING IT WILL BE AMAZING
ALSO THAT NIGHT IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD... Other amazing things happening within a short walk.

1) Humpday Happyhour at Southern Exposure, part of their ongoing Working Conditions project, • 3030 20th Street, SF, CA 94110 • 6-9PM

2) Kadist San Francisco: Jens Hoffman and Larry Rinder in conversation • 3295 20th Street, SF, CA 94110 • 6-7 Cocktails • 7:00 start Read More

When: Oct 12: 6-8PM

Where: Our office 3285 20th Street at Folsom in San Francisco's Mission District

What: We are four years old and want to have a party

We have an office with furniture built by Luke Barteles and a gold leaf sign on our window by Jeff Canham. We want to celebrate with you. So come down and have a beer and bring a friend. We will be in the office from 6-8PM with a lot of other activities taking place, including:

1) a magazine launch by our friends at Fillip, which will be taking place next door at Kadist

2) a book signing of Gwen Allen's new book Artist's Magazines

3) and Colter Jacobsen who will be on hand explaining the links between Thoreau and Johnny Carson as they relate to his recent THING Quarterly limited edition project

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Southern Exposure and THE THING Quarterly are pleased to host a two night West Coast Book launch for Gwen Allen's important book Artist's Magazines. published by MIT press.

October 12th 6-8PM: 3285 20th Street at THE THING Quarterly Office: Book Signing for Artists' Magazines with author, Gwen Allen. Co-presented by Southern Exposure and THE THING Quarterly.

Gwen will be on hand signing copies of her book. We will have copies of the book available for purchase. We will also be exhibiting a portion of Gwen's personal collection of Artist Publications from the 70's to present. They will be on display in our office for the party and over the next two weeks. We invite you to come down during our office hours and inspect them more closely. Wednesdays 11AM-7PM, Thursdays 11-4PM and Friday's 11-4PM

October 13th 7-9PM: 3030 20th Street at Southern Exposure: Panel Discussion and Book Launch with author, Gwen Allen. Co-presented by Southern Exposure and THE THING Quarterly

Southern Exposure and THE THING Quarterly will host a discussion of the history, present tense, and future of artists’ publications. Gwen Allen’s new book Artists' Magazines: An Alternative Space for Art (MIT Press), serves as the starting point for the conversation, which surveys American and European artists’ publications from the 1960s to the 1980s. Allen will give a presentation, which will be followed by a discussion of its relationship with a variety of contemporary publishing projects, from art journals to edition projects, and zines. Participants include Courtney Dailey, founding member of project MOBILIVRE-BOOKMOBILE project and the Bookmobile collective; Chris Duncan, founder of Land and Sea; Eleanor Hanson, co-founder of The Present Group; Jeff Khonsary, publisher of Fillip magazine, and will be moderated by Gallerist Steven Wolf.

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