In This Issue
inFocus
Americana
The All-American 'Ring' at SF Opera
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Larry King
Mel Gibson
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Theatre
Film
Dance
Dance
Opera
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Perceptions
Michael Bettencourt
When Does Someone Get Old
Bette Davis was right about growing old: it's not for sissies. That goes as
much for the caretakers as it does for citizens turning daily senior before our
eyes.
Life
Arthur Meiselman
Two Arts Make a Wrong
In America, and increasingly elsewhere, the art of cooking has nothing to do
with survival—it's a key therapy in mental healthcare, it's entertainment.
Americans do not eat to survive, they eat to consume, and they are...
consumptive.
Theatre
Nathan Thomas
The Game of Perception
Two tragedies as unalike as tragedies can be. Hamlet and the ecological
disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. One an old play about personal ambition and
death and revenge, the other a modern experience of personal ambition and
death and revenge.
Media
Les Marcott
The Long Goodbye
Larry King won't be retiring until "sometime" in the fall; Oprah won't be leaving
her show until September of next year. Call it what you will but I call it the
long goodbye.
Theatre
Claudine Jones
Liked But Not Well Liked
I will say, though, that the performance of the play was as close to a complete
waste of my time, without being a total train wreck, as I have seen in quite a
while.
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Film (Reviews)
The Girls Who
Fought for Their Lives
The Girl with the
Dragon Tattoo
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Winter's Bone
Miles David Moore
Opera
The All-American Ring is shaping up at
San Francisco Opera
Renate Stendhal
Arts of Thailand
Vihara Laai Kham
A revered treasure of temple architecture and paintings
Janine Yasovant
คลิกเพื่ออ่านบทความนี้ เป็นภาษาไทย
(also in Thai)
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Chamber Opera
The Steiny Road to Operadom
The Turn of the Screw
While 'Screw' is a horror story and a psychological conundrum, it is also a
case of two deaths not satisfactorily accounted for.
Karren Alenier
Media
La Femme La Mujer La Donna
A Not-So-Braveheart Revisited
Mel Gibson has made headlines once again this summer from a very public
and very dirty custody battle with his ex-girlfriend.
Lia Beachy
Poetry
Life Among the Heffalumps
My Art—Your Self
Why do I get so emotional over a comic strip panel? Partly, because though
well past my teenage years, I still identify with this angst-filled adolescent
Kathi Wolfe
Comics
Old Hippy
One Big Happy Family
Elliot Feldman
Fiction
Where Cedar Creek Falls
The serialization of a new novel by Martin Challis
Chapter Fourteen - Hunter
They'd received a call 20 minutes earlier from a neighbour who'd heard
screaming. Two detectives, Crowle and Earnshaw entered the kitchen, guns
ready.
Scene4 Blogs
Letters to the Editor
Qreviews
Qué Pasa
Writers Blogs
The Dressing-Karren Alenier
On Miles David Moore-Miles David Moore
Life In Acting-Martin Challis
Dr. Barnabas T. Bynum's New School
Musical Revue and Travelling
Minstrel Show-Les Marcott
Thai Nights-Arthur Meiselman
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