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11/06/2023

“Minimum Rage” by Cherry Koch |
Oil on Wood Panel.

Featured in Issue X. Order your copy from the link in our bio: 86logic.com/products/issuex

“Cherry Koch is a painter and installation artist based in Duluth MN. A 2020 graduate of the University of Wisconsin Superior, Cherry has developed a signature style. Lush colors and playful props convey a cheerful exuberance, but the oil portraits are are also suffused with melancholy.

Growing up in a family run restaurant, deli paper and diner scenes are a commonplace within Cherry’s artworks. Server and Bartender at Corktown Deli in Duluth MN.”

11/02/2023

💥 EXTENDED DEADLINE & LAST CALL for 86.11's Around the Table column!

Our Around the Table column—printed in every issue—has featured "news, gossip, & discoveries," including (but not limited to) short-form reviews on books, movies, podcasts, and more--all with some relationship to restaurants & the service industry. 🧑‍🍳

Send us your short, scrappy, punchy, funny, critical, applauding reviews on ANY type of media related to hospitality. Get creative with it and submit via Submittable in the link below by November 10th! ⤵️

tinyurl.com/8611SUBMIT

10/31/2023

🪡 “Are You on the Menu” by Morgan Bukovec |

Cross stitch on guest checkbook, featured in Issue X. Order your copy from the link in our bio: 86logic.com/products/issuex

“Morgan Bukovec (b. 1996) is a mixed media artist, educator, and collector of things from Cleveland, Ohio. Bukovec works with found objects across mediums including collage, textiles, and installation, focusing on the themes of identity, storytelling, and fleeting moments and objects across time. Bukovec was recently awarded a gift grant by the Kanyer Art Collection to complete her 100 work series: SERVICE INDUSTRY STITCH PROJECT (). This series is the result of the past decade of her work in the service industry, aiming to highlight the power of words and personal reclamation.”

10/28/2023

We’re so proud of everyone for making the writers’ workshop and happy hour last Sunday so beautiful—we’re looking forward to more workshops and finding other ways to bring writers/artists together to learn and create. ✨

Thank you Quinn Moss .nyc for putting so much energy and time into putting this in place and Eric with for hosting us! 🍻

, your hard work preparing really showed; we continue to be inspired by the conversations you facilitated. It’s incredible to think about how far 86 Logic has evolved — we’re thankful for our submitters, contributors, subscribers, readers, and volunteers for not simply supporting the magazine, but for helping grow this community!

Stay tuned for more 86 Logic events coming next year. 🍽️

10/23/2023

“Dishpit” by Sydney Speck | 💧

Gouache on paper, featured in Issue X. Order your copy from the link in our bio: 86logic.com/products/issuex

“Sydney Speck is a painter based in Moscow, Idaho. She works with gouache paint to capture the little moments of everyday life that care for and comfort her. She currently works at Moscow bagel and Deli making bagel sandwiches for her main source of income, but hopes to make it as a full time artist one day. But she is very grateful for this job as it has led her to many amazing friends and her amazing boyfriend, Seth.”

10/21/2023

Party with the 86 Logic team at LIC for our happy hour at 7PM tomorrow! 🍻

Following our writers’ workshop at 5PM, we’ll have beers and hang with the editors, plus a brief Q&A 💬 where you’ll have the chance to challenge their logic and ask the most telling of questions, like: why doesn’t own a button up? Is ’s mustache real? When wears a chef jacket, does he actually believe he is a chef? Why does it take so long to get the issue you’ve ordered? & any other pressing industry questions—magazine-related or otherwise.
🔪🍅 The only thing we’ll be trying to sell you is a good time (OK, maybe some subscriptions or totes if you’re interested).

See you there 👋

10/17/2023

CALLING ALL WRITERS IN NYC 📣 86 Logic is excited to present our first-ever writer's workshop, led by 86.9 contributor Halle Murcek !

Join us for a night of drafting at Big Alice Brewery (LIC) THIS Sunday, October 22nd. The workshop will begin at 5PM, with a happy hour and performance to follow at 7PM. Tickets free of charge. 🍻

LINK IN BIO TO SIGN UP:
https://forms.gle/FHieYHKU2mWicmHu9

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10/17/2023

Calling all writers in NYC 📣 86 Logic is excited to present our first-ever writer's workshop, led by 86.9 contributor Halle Murcek !

Join us for a night of drafting at Big Alice Brewery (LIC) THIS Sunday, October 22nd. The workshop will begin at 5PM, with a happy hour and performance to follow at 7PM. Tickets free of charge. 🍻

LINK IN BIO TO SIGN UP!
https://forms.gle/FHieYHKU2mWicmHu9

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10/04/2023

Clearly, we had a blast at Lock 34 last month for 86 Logic’s Behind The Apron fundraising event. Thank you to Amber Culverwell for these photos and for the pieces she auctioned off, and to Melissa Junke for helping this become a reality, and to offer such a fantastic space to celebrate the artistic talent and the dedication of heroes in the hospitality industry. 💥

Stay tuned for more 86 Logic events in New York coming this fall.

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10/02/2023

X marks the spot for our tenth issue.

For the last three years, we have brought you the crème de la crème of poetry, prose, and visual art from those who’ve worked in the service industry. 86.X is both a tribute to what we’ve accomplished and a promise that our journey has just begun. It signals the start of a new, invigorating chapter for 86 Logic.

Reserve your limited-print copy of issue X, plus receive an exclusive 86 Logic tote bag when you pre-order today. Offer stands for pre-orders, while supplies last.

LINK IN BIO
86logic.com/products/issuex

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07/07/2023

86 Logic’s first-ever event was a smashing success, a sweeping victory, we dare say our chef-d’oeuvre… 🍻

A HUGE thanks Erik and the whole team at Big ALICe for hosting us, to our incredible performers , to for providing art for auction, to for her ongoing support, and everyone who came out to join us— friends, contributors, 86ers. It means the world to us.

If you missed us last week, mark your calendars for our next party on 8/6 day… details to come. 🧑‍🍳

📸 Justin Rogers .entertainment

06/26/2023

TOMORROW ‼️ 86 Logic’s first-ever bash celebrates the recent launch of our ninth issue. Come one and all to Big ALICe Brewing next Tuesday—industry degenerates and socialites welcome.

📍 8-08 43RD ROAD
LONG ISLAND CITY, NY
🚪 Doors @ 7PM
🎟️ Free event
🚊 Subway access via E, M, N, R, F, G, & 7 lines

Join us at any point in the evening to grab a drink, hang with the editors, and pick up limited-print copies of our magazine. 🍺

What’s more: readings and performances throughout the night, art by up for sale, and a $1 raffle for 86 Logic subscriptions and more prizes. 🏆

Eventbrite link in story & bio — we can’t wait to see you there.

06/24/2023

By our 86.9 cover artist, interview feature, and overall VIP Tom Liesegang |

This piece and several others will be on view and for sale at our event next Tuesday, June 27th—don’t miss it!

06/24/2023

Our tenth issue of 86 Logic— issue X— is in the works. Order up for a print copy of 86.9 while you can! 📩 Link to our shop in bio.

Photo by Lauren Wilcox, cover by Tom Liesegang.

06/23/2023

“Cafe” by Mark Allen |
Featured in 86.8.

Mark Allen is a graduate of the High School of Music and Art (NYC) and Hobart College (BA Fine Arts). After college he went on to the Culinary Institute of America (Hyde Park, NY) applying his abilities to recipes and food presentation but never giving up his passion to draw and paint. After over 35 years in the food service industry, he retired and now focuses on his art full time. Since then, his work has been exhibited at galleries and acquired by private collections throughout the country, as well as published in art anthologies, publications and virtual exhibits.

06/23/2023

“Yes, Chef,” featured in our latest issue, tells them true story of a fragmented experience being the only woman in Back-of-House, gathering from notes the author Halle Murcek once jotted on receipt paper. Having earned acceptance and burn marks, this brilliant author shows us the ways in which this precious time shaped her as a writer.

"Halle is a 36 year old Midwest born, New York bred writer who holds both a BA in Creative Nonfiction from Denison University and an MFA in fiction from The New School.
There are very few jobs she hasn't had in the industry; from server to food runner to expeditor to S.A. to bar back to host, Maitre D, manager and everything in between: she's done it all. Currently the Guest Experience Manager for Union Square Hospitality Group, you can find her bopping around the front doors of their restaurants and playing table tetris with the reservation books. The small things are her favorite because they matter the most. Halle uses her restaurant experience to fuel her creative juices in her writing and is currently working on a collection of essays about the industry. You can find her solo at any bar in the city with a book in one hand and an old fashioned in the other."

06/22/2023

“The summer after I turned 21 was a big turning point for me. I had just dropped out of the citadel, got a job dishwashing and as a bellhop to support myself and was probably the most depressed and lonely I've ever been in my life…. creating imaginary landscapes from memories in my head where things were better helped me realize that a place like that was possible and I could ask for help. This painting encompasses what got me through these times.

The mountains, next to the protruding hand, form into the face of my past self which is looking to the egret that represents my present self. The past looks to the present with a melancholy gaze, and the present looks to the past with wistful sentimentality of perseverance. This is me flying through a memory, glad to see how I have progressed since.” — Landon Carter

It’s an honor to have published Landon’s work in our latest issue, featured on the right in the above image: If I Am Lost It's Only For A Little While" (2022). Layered Resin and Acrylic Paint. 36 in x 24 in x 2 in.

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We wrote about the amazing things that Josué Caceres, Bx Writers, and Bronx Native are doing. Read the full article now at www.86logic.com ⁠ 📝: Michael Ferrin ⁠ This was shot on location at Bronx Native. Go check out they're dope store..⁠ ⁠ 127 Lincoln Ave, Bronx, NY 10454⁠ Buisness Hours: Mon–Sat: 12-7pm ⁠ Sunday: 12–5pm

Our submissions are always open for digital publications. If you'd like to be featured in our sixth print magazine, submissions are open until June 30th. So far we've published poetry, prose, fiction, non-fiction/journalism, photography, art, comics, and plays. We can't wait to see your work!⁠ ⁠ More Details: www.86Logic.com/submit

Grab your copy of our newest ‘zine issue TODAY. 88 pages of visual art, poetry, and prose! Thanks for supporting artists with roots in the service industry! Link in bio. Description: Summer is here, and with it comes the latest from 86 Logic. 86.4 cover artist, Andrew Tresler (@treslord), invites you to grab a seat and relax. There’s a place for you here. We have some firsts this time around—86.4 marks the first time we have published a play (*86 by @erikafontana, page 21), a book excerpt (upcoming memoir Nice Work Boys! by @ladylinecook, page 68), and a recipe (Ghosts of Tortellini Past by Shell St. James, page 55). Our summer issue is our most varied publication to date. We explored new ways to combine visual art with the written word, which helped us create a smoother and more precise curation. You’re not going to want to miss our interview (Good People Make Good Beer...Labels, page 72) with Josué Caceres (@josue_caceres), founder of BX Writers (@bxwriters), an artist collective dedicated to empowering writers from the Bronx. Nor do you want to skip our recurring comic “Space Bar.” Volume 3 explores some possible ramifications of A.I. at the host stand. Read full description at 86Logic.com  #NewIssueAlert #86Logic #86LogicZine

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