Scene4::International Magazine of Arts and Media::December 2011
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In
This Issue
inFocus
Red
Mother
inView
(Commentary)
Michael
Bettencourt
Walkabout Thoughts
I'm
walking down the street and I'm talking to myself. And the
thought I'm having is this. First of all, it's not about me
as the writer, not about a career as a writer. It is about
something else. It's about taking what I write to create
value.
Arthur
Meiselman
Singers of Songs
A
continuous dimension I travel through is music. It is the balance
to my visual world and a purveyor of intimate and relentless
privacy. In that dimension, of all the singers I have ever heard,
seen, enjoyed, opera, theatre, jazz, pop,
only two
linger and hover above
all the
other voices. Both are American.
Nathan
Thomas
Why
Don't You Speak Better?
In
America, we haven't quite found a way to embrace the various
dialects of American English. We hold out as a model a
region-less, dialect-less speech. This kind of speech is very
American - "I come from nowhere and will disappear ultimately like
the will o' the wisp." We do not use the dialects of our country.
And some dialects we actively dislike.
Les
Marcott
The
Santa Claus Monlogues
There's
no red carpet treatment this year Santa. No helicopter arrival. No
band. No parade. No fanfare. No grand entrance. It's the year of
lowered expectations. You'll simply arrive in a rusty Olds 98
pushed by volunteers. You'll come through the back way and make a
brief statement. You'll then sit down with the kids, read a story,
take a few pictures, and walk back to the rusty Olds and be pushed
away. Santa simply can't promise more than he can
deliver.
Claudine Jones
chocklit Kleen
I forget
why, but I did update my passport somewhat recently (oh yeah, went
to Guam. Oops, blocked that out) & so had to get a new photo.
It has to 'look' like you. No smiling and no scarves or hats
either. I took some trouble to appear 'natural'--not to run afoul of
the *shudder* TSA--and yet now less than a year later, the hair is
not behaving...yag. I know I've said before that with me it's all
about the hair, but really. I'm serious.
reView
FILM (reviews)
The
Ides of March, Margin Call
Both
films feature dream casts and long stretches of high-intensity
dialogue, but only one persuades us of the overwhelming, poisonous
importance of the skullduggery it portrays.
Miles
David Moore
THEATRE
Red
Mother
Using
Brecht's "Mother Courage" as a jumping off place, Muriel Miguel of
the Spider Woman Theater Ensemble embraced the war torn, twisted
reality of a native woman worming her way from one war to the
next
Ned
Bobkoff
POETRY
Richard Cory's Untold
Story
Much
envied by the "people on the pavement" he went home "one calm
summer night" and "put a bullet through his
head."
David
Alpaugh
OPERA
Xerxes by Händel
San
Francisco Opera may have already reached the zenith of this season
with Händel's one and only "comic" opera.
Renate
Stendhal
inSight
The
Steiny Road to the Operadom
Should
the Steiny Road Poet call 2011 the year of
Gertrude Stein?
Karren
Alenier
La
Femme La Mujer La Donna
Letter Heads
When
was the last time you received a letter, either hand-written or
typed, through the postal service? I'm talking about a personal
letter, not an appointment reminder or a birthday card from your
dentist.
Lia
Beachy
Life
Among the Heffalumps
Holy
Holidaze, Batman!
Five
Gift Ideas for Starving Poets and Other Lesser
Mortals
If you're
like me, life is more scary now than it was this time last year,
even though then we wouldn't have thought this was
possible.
Kathi
Wolfe
COMICS
My Old
Man!
Bakky
Nakky Saki
An
ongoing series by Scene4's resident mad
cartoonist
Elliot
Feldman
POETRY
A World
Elsewhere
David
Alpaugh
WRITING
The Former Future: The U.S.
Writings of Mika Oklop
A writer of legendary stature in the former Yugoslavia, this is the first publication of Mika Oklop's longer expatriate writings.
Lissa
Tyler Renaud
Scene4
Blogs
Letters to the Editor
Qreviews
Qué
Pasa
Writers Blogs
The
Dressing-Karren Alenier
On
Miles David Moore-Miles David Moore
Dr.
Barnabas T. Bynum's New School
Musical Revue and
Travelling
Minstrel Show-Les
Marcott
Thai
Nights-Arthur Meiselman
Special Issues
A BRIEF
BUT QUIRKY HISTORY of the ARTS
January
2011
THE
RISING FALL OF THE ARTS
January
2010
THE
ONE
January
2009
WHAT IS
ART?
January
2008
VIEW OF
THE ARTS/2007
January
2007
THE ART
OF SEX IN THE ARTS
February 2006
STATE
OF THE ART OF THE ARTS
October
2005
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