Michael Villar, star of Spent Saints Web Series, Episode 1, “Lost in the Supermarket” and Episode 6, “Eye for Sin”, (both directed by the talented Rani DeMuth) has won an Oscar for the short film “Skin.” Spent Saints is a 12 part web series, based upon Brian Smith’s gritty and empathic collection of short stories, Spent Saints, exec produced by Maggie Rawling Smith and co-adapted for the screen by Brian Smith and Maggie Rawling Smith. It will be available for viewing in Sept

Reading and signing copies of Tucson Salvage: Tales and Recollections from La Frontera in Las Vegas this weekend,cscreening the award-winning doc Maggie Rawling Smith directed. With us will be Brian's brother Barry Smith on psych-ambient power violin, and the brilliant performance artist and writer Jazzy Byner. At 6 p.m. this Sunday at the mighty Zia Records 1216 S Rainbow Blvd, Las Vegas. There’ll be flasks and a kid or two and fuck-yous at the Trump tower. We’ll even have s

Standing room only at Zia Records for the Tucson Salvage Reading with Brian's brother Barry Smith playing Violin too.

Brian and Maggie stop by The World Famous Frank Show on KLPX (96.1) to talk the Tucson Salvage project and the reading tonight at Antigone Books. Listen to the show here. #TheworldfamousFrankShow #KristineLevine #KLPX

A review in the latest print edition penned by author Michael T. Fournier ...