Scene4 — This Issue: May 2012


	May 2012

		This Issue New Features Perspectives images, glyphs, writings more here From the Archives with new Special Indexes more here

COMMENTARY

Two Poems About Writing
Michael Bettencourt
This paper is an ear with no mouth,
water no dowsing can raise.
This pencil bleeds silence.
This hand plows left to right,
harrows breathing to silt.

The Dancer Into Poet
Selena Zachai
Arthur Meiselman
Lorca took everything into his mouth and his nose and his eyes and his tongue. He is the most sensual poet of the 20th century. If he were alive I would smash my way to lie with him to hear him breathe and sing.

Feminism and the Method
Nathan Thomas
It occurred to me that – as a man – in accordance with some perspectives I can't escape my gender. In other perspectives, I'm not allowed to escape my gender.

Music For Grownups
Les Marcott
Steven Tyler is another one of those who seem to live in perpetual adolescence. It's pathetic to see a 64-year old man turn himself into a freak show that only twenty somethings can fathom.

Thread
Claudine Jones
What consists of time well spent? Baking cookies for the grand-kid? Shopping? All ten seasons of Stargate SG-1? Or are these all merely funneled into the Cuisinart of Life to make an Existential Smoothie?

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FILM (reviews)
Hugo
A Separation
Two of the big winners at this year's Academy Awards ceremony were Martin Scorsese's Hugo and Asghar Farhadi's A Separation, which can be reviewed together only as a study in contrasts..
Miles David Moore

DANCE
Balanchine
The rhythm of their jumps, the weight of their landings and the silence when they were suspended in the air was the music he needed to hear. San Francisco Ballet's recent all-Balanchine program featured two masterpieces that provided the audience with the opportunity to appreciate the subtlety of these sounds.
Catherine Conway Honig

ARTS OF THAILAND (Cuisine)
The South Is Hot But Oh, So Good!
The food there is rather hot and spicy made from a variety of chillies and herbs and the tastes are salty, sweet, sour and very hot.
Janine Yasovant
คลิกเพื่ออ่านบทความนี้ เป็นภาษาไทย


	Musing on Adrienne Rich Rich's work is breathtaking. No words can convey her talent. Over a six-decades long career, she won more prizes than there are stars in the sky Kathi Wolfe

		COMICS My Old Man! My Receptionist An ongoing series by Scene4's resident mad cartoonist Elliot Feldman


	The Nastiest Smear of Paint Smart art investment—these are the words with which the Steiny Road Poet left the Metropolitan Art Museum's special exhibition The Steins Collect. Karren Alenier

		GRAPHICS Patrick Nagel It's In the Eyes


	Flowers with Drama The Photography of Jon Rendell


	Mechanical Fire The Art of SS. Burrus

Science, Truth and Beauty Stephen Hawking
From a conversation with Ian Sample.

A Fable from the 'War On Women' Arthur Meiselman
On a lazy, warm, cloudy, summer's day, a boy and girl play hide-and-seek.

Mistakes Happen Les Marcott
What I actually received was a severed head that kinda sorta resembles my cousin Artie.

Searching For A Little Authenticity Les Marcott
Here I was…nickel and diming it…living out of my shitty trashmobile – a rusted 1976 Buick Skylark with a hundred million miles on it.

Be A Widow To The World Griselda Steiner
Be a widow to the world
Pray for vision

Death of Aeschylus David Alpaugh
Like a cold-blooded scion of Icarus
the reptile fell from the sky

Three Poems Kathi Wolfe
Blind Porn
The Porpoise in the Pink Alcove
Bellinis and Beluga




	In This Issue Millie's Sunshine Tiki Villas The Sunshine Tiki Villas make up a retirement community for the elderly. The characters are far from retired. They are busy, and thrive on betrayal, rivalry, jealousy— all the interesting human attributes which have peppered our lives since Shakespeare's time and before. There is a cartoon like quality to their strivings, because no one cares what comes of them. by Grace Cavalieri Read the Play

What Is Obscenity and What's Not?
January 2012 Click Here
A Brief But Quirky
History of the Arts
January 2011 Click Here

The Rising Fall of the Arts
January 2010 Click Here

The One
January 2009 Click Here

What Is Art? / 2008
January 2008 Click Here

View of the Arts/2007
January 2007 Click Here

The Art of Sex in the Arts
February 2006 Click Here

State of the Art of the Arts
October 2005 Click Here


	Sleeping Buffalo Mountain Artistic Vision at the Banff Summer Arts Festival Ned Bobkoff September 2003

	Sacred Monsters Sylvie Guillem and Akram Khan In Berkeley Renate Stendhal July 2007

	Theatre The Artistry of Graham Greene Carole Quattro Levine October 2007


	The Steiny Road to Operadom A complete index of all of Karren Alenier's columns in Scene4 with links. Click Here for Access


	Comics A complete index of all of Elliot Feldman's comics in Scene4 with links. Click Here for Access


	Film Reviews A complete linked index of the film reviews by Scene4's Film Critic, Miles David Moore Click Here for Access

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Letters to the Editor
Letters to the Editor
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Qreviews
Q for "quick" - long and short reviews on theatre and film


	Karren Alenier The Dresser addresses what's underneath the art

	Miles David Moore Thoughts and observations from, to, for or against

Que Pasa
Notices, announcements and coming attractions


	Les Marcott Dr. Barnabus T. Bynum's Travelling Minstrel Show


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