Archived:www.archives.scene4.com/oct-2008
In This Issue
~~~inFocus~~~
WORDS, WOMEN & POLITICS
Karren Alenier
"Political Slogans"
Kathi Wolfe
"Those People"
Arthur Meiselman
"Reality: Stage It and Cage It"
~~~inView~~~
Michael Bettencourt
THE MACHO ZONE
So here I am holding this wheezing, sleeping boy
against my chest, swaying slightly, eddied about
by the blank-faced rush of people "on the go" --
and then it happened.
Arthur Meiselman
REALITY: STAGE IT AND CAGE IT
An 'avatar', a virtual creature who embodies
the above-described reality of Reality
in the media... the candidate for the
Vice-Presidency, Sarah Palin.
Nathan Thomas
MY TIME WITH THE RUSSIANS
Where does the culture begin and where does the
artist end? Or, where does the artist begin
absent any input from the culture in which the
artist lives?
Les Marcott
WHAT'S IN A NAME
Rip Van Winkle Reimagined
(with apologies to Washington Irving)
Martin Challis
NO ACTING
What changed was that I crossed the bridge
between my world and the world within the
language of the text. It became personal.
It became meaningful.
~~~reView~~~
FILM Reviews
Miles David Moore
ET IN ARCADIA EGO
"Brideshead Revisited"
"Bottle Shock"
MUSIC
Carole Quattro Levine
HIS NAME IS MATO NANJI
His Band is Indigenous
POLITICAL THEATRE
Janine Yasovant
The Arts of Thailand
"Ngew Thammasart"
in Thailand
(also in Thai)
BOOKS
Griselda Steiner
"Shopping For Porcupine"
A Life In Arctic Alaska
~~~inSight~~~
MEDIA
Karren Alenier
The Steiny Road to Operadom
"Political Slogans"
ACTING
Lia Beachy
La Femme La Mujer La Donna
"Ain't Nothing Like A Dame"
POETRY
Kathi Wolfe
Life Among the Heffalumps
"Those People"
BOOKS
"Where Cedar Creek Falls"
In a small country town in outback Australia a
young man is confronted with the fact that his
father is missing presumed dead.
In the face of all the evidence to the contrary
he is convinced this is not the case
and sets out to discover the truth for himself.
The serialization of a new novel by Martin Challis
"Chapter Two - Disquiet"
COMICS
Old Hippy
Fun In The Boiler Room
Stuff It!
Elliot Feldman
NEW TECHNOLOGY
TOSHIBA
Portégé M700
Tablet PC
~~~inPrint~~~
THE SOUND CALLED MUSIC
by Evan Guilford-Blake
A short play about two enigmatically lonely people. A MAN and a WOMAN, both unnamed, who meet in a dance club and reveal their fragile natures and their needs to each other through spare conversation and the urgencies of the moment.
~~~Blogs~~~
SCENE4 BLOGS
The Readers Blog
Qreviews
Que Pasa
WRITERS BLOGS
The Dressing/Karren Alenier
Miles David Moore/MDM
Life In Acting/Martin Challis
Thai Nights/Arthur Meiselman
Dr. Barnabas T. Bynum's New School Musical Revue and Travelling Minstrel Show/Les Marcott
~~~Special Issues~~~
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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