I bet it depresses the hell out you to have those unreturned Iron Rail library books weeping like paper-pulp orphans in the shelves of your household. The earnest stamps on the title page, the out-of-date phone number, the 2007 “date due” penciled on the rear inside cover… but even though the Rail is temporarily closed, you can STILL RETURN your library books thanks to the good peoples at Gerken’s Bike Shop, 2703 Saint Claude Ave. Swing by Gerken’s any time they’re open and you’ll see an Iron Rail dropbox where you can return our stuff. Thanks very much!!
and oh yeah p.s. I know the media is just gonna say whatever but PLEASE… no individual and no ad-hoc group speaks for the Rail. Only the Iron Rail collective speaks for the Iron Rail, and being a deliberative consensus-based body we tend to take our sweet time doing so. The collective has to date only released one (preliminary) statement about our closing and isn’t granting media interviews at the moment. THUS: If you don’t see it here or on our facebook or some other clearly rail-approved organ then it is not the Rail and we don’t co-sign it. Sure SUCKS REALLY BAD that we have to make this distinction, but there ya go. Also, The Iron Rail book collective has exactly nothing to do with Eris OR even Plan B (besides obviously being neighborly with the latter), and anybody saying otherwise probably has a fucked-up if not sinister agenda.
Mais oui, we got railed us up the chute, but we’re regrouping and will reopen. One mainstay of the Iron Rail’s pitiful dribble of “income” over the years has always been TABLING SHOWS, and by goddess we are STILL TABLING SHOWS… now more than ever.
If you would like to buy rad ‘zines OR books OR records OR patches OR donate money to us OR return your Iron Rail Library books (please) come find the Iron Rail Tabling Table at any of the following live music events, all of which are anyway worth attending regardless:
March 22nd
Jamie Kent & the Options @ Neutral Ground
March 23rd
Noah’s Ark Was a Spaceship | Yuppies @ Caddywhomp Haus — in Midcity
The Horns of Happiness | Wee Giant @ Allways Lounge
March 25th
Punk show @ Euclid Records 5pm – 7pm
IN Exchange Ethical Fashion show @ Republic
March 26th
The Ghostwood | Robinsons | The Hons @ Dragon’s Den
Mia Borders @ Oak Wine Bar & Bistro
Red State @ Tulane McCalister Auditorium
WTUL Record Raid @ Tulane Zimple Quad
March 30th
Rejouissance | Adults | Opposable Thumbs @ Circle Bar
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