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	June 2026


	The Joffrey Ballet Performs Alexander Ekman’s Midsummer Night’s Dream at Cal Performances, Berkeley Renate Stendhal


	Hibiscus II The Photography of Jon Rendell


	On His Majesty’s Secret Service The Night Manager, Slow Horses The two programs are markedly different in tone. Both build up constant, at times unbearable, levels of tension and suspense. Miles David Moore


	Dream House Is it the core component of the so-called American Dream? Look for answers in selected artwork by Deniz Ozan-George from her May 2026 exhibit at Galatea Fine Art.

For All Mankind
The strong aspiration to achieve an existential purity by flying to the stars – the focused mission, the selflessness of the team, pushing the bounds of knowledge, the devotion to a purpose.
Michael Bettencourt

Au Revoir Liberal Arts
The purpose of going to college is to learn how to think, he said. Who said?
No one seemingly alive today..
Arthur Danin Adler

Hey, what's your favorite movie?
So, been having a hell of a week. Spent Mother's Day in the ER, saw my primary the next day and we have a nice chat during which she reminds me. not her precise words—she works for Jeff Bezos.
Claudine Jones

All This Talk Of Aliens…Again
Finally, we just might be getting to the bottom of all this talk about alien existence. With troubles here and abroad the alien chatter has become front and center again.
Les Marcott

“You forget I can regrow my fangs, charmer”
The vagaries of love—romantic, sexual, or platonic—are an eternal theme for poetry, but Katherine Gekker manages to bring fresh observations to the subject in her second collection.
Gregory Luce

Stevens Meets The Legacy
When Wallace Stevens checked out in 1955, Rock ’n Roll was in its infancy, so maybe even he couldn’t have imagined what the music could do with the titles of his poems.
Patrick Walsh


	He and They...Hemingway Karren Alenier


	Seven of My Own David Alpaugh


	The Prodigious Power of the Dust Jacket Hans Gallas


	Paris Correspondence: “The Music of Colors” wtRobina ed. by L.T. Renaud


	Kraisorn Wichaikul also inThai ไกรสร วิชัยกุล Stories about human beings are not only outward reflections of society, but also mirrors of our inner selves. Janine Yasovant


	The Snare of Distance and the Sunglasses of the Seer /Part Four Even though some part of ourselves may be living in the future, our predictions are far more likely to be wrong than to be right Brian George


writings

	JOHN HUGHES IS IN THE HOUSE! A “Quentin TeenRantino” kind of show Altenir Silva


imagery


		Painting Birdwatch Writings Farm Life The Art of David Wiley

	The Art of SS. Burrus A Retrospective When the Earth is ravaged and the animals are dying, a new tribe of people will appear on the Earth

	Patrick Nagel It’s in the Eyes


media

Audio

Theatre Thoughts
An entertaining array of audio essays on an array
of theatre topics by an astute and entertaining essayist

You Don’t Say!
Occasional Musings by an occasionally amused writer


Video


	Undress Me In a bar, Laura turns to Stefan and asks him to undress her, by word of mouth, in his best mother tongue


	Light Fantastic Weighty matters of brain neurons and addiction, two kisses, single-malt scotch, the green dance of blue, yellow lasers


	Ear Buds What happens when we love our devices — and they love us back

		The Greed Gene A young couple is told by their genetic counselor that their child has the greed gene, there is nothing they can do

letters, comments

& responses


	books






		Notes, Announcements and Comments from Scene4 Writers and Artists

Prior Issues From The Archives

Special—Issues

Everything Old Is New Again
January 2013|●

What Is Obscenity and What’s Not?
January 2012|●

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
January 2007|●

The Art of Sex in the Arts
February 2006|●

State of the Art of the Arts
October 2005|●

Special—Indexes

Hours of fine reading and research. A unique array of articles as comtemporary as when they were first published.

The Steiny Road
Index of Karren Alenier’s
columns and writings|●

Film Reviews
Index of Miles David Moore’s
reviews and writings|●

Writings
Index of Renate Stendhal’s
writings and reviews|●

Writings
Index of Arthur Danin Adler’s columns and writings|●

Kandinsky Anew
Index of the series by
Lissa Tyler Renaud|●

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