December 2025
Protest! The Photography of Jon Rendell
Wagner’s Parsifal at SF Opera Desire and its Discontents Renate Stendhal
Mean Streets Highest 2 Lowest, Black Rabbit Two of the most popular films this summer were variations on the familiar horror plot of small towns beset by mysterious, threatening forces. Miles David Moore
Columns
On Sadness and Politics My recent reading has been more re-reading, going back to (for me) foundational texts that have had a hand in sculpting my understanding of the world. Michael Bettencourt
Somewhere In Time When I stand on my hill and look around, nothing has changed, except Baseball. This magnificent game was once the living portrait of America. It succumbed to its primary capitalistic instinct. Arthur Meiselman
You know what you did You fucked around and I found out. More to the point, you continued to fuck around with someone from our early years that you said you wouldn't fuck around with, but you did. Claudine Jones
It’s Time To Root For The Monkey On October 28, 21 Rhesus monkeys from the Tulane National Biomedical Research Center in New Orleans were being transported in a truck that overturned in Jasper County, Mississippi. Les Marcott
“Part of you wants to believe this poem was written by a human” Elizabeth Knapp has given us one of the most important collections of poetry this year. Gregory Luce
Raise a Tankard to Stan Rogers What would it sound like if you crossed Gordon Lightfoot with Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull and threw in a few dollops of Bob Mould in case you needed still more vocal lilt? Patrick Walsh
The Steiny Road Poet announces the completion of her three book project From The Belly Karren Alenier
61 E.E. Cummings David Alpaugh
Revisiting Kandinsky’s Theatre of Abstraction: Three Play Fragments Even today, many of those interested in the painter Kandinsky are still surprised that he wrote plays for the stage. Jelena Hahl-Fontaine and Lissa Tyler Renaud
Pradit Tangprasartwong No one is wrong; art is a mirror of society, reflecting human life both locally and globally. Janine Yasovant
Notes on Kundalini and the Ticking of the Biological Clock/ Part ThreeMy body was on fire. In pitch darkness, all the objects in my room were as bright as lamps. The space around me was a web of lightning. Brian George
writings
Words, Words, Words Altenir Silva I was running in the woods. I was fast and never looked back. Just running. But what was I running away from? It happened that I was running away because behind me was the word BETRAYAL.
imagery
Painting Nature Girl Poetry Love Jungle Apocalypse III 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
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books
Special—Issues
July/August 2015|●
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
The Steiny Road Index of Karren Alenier’s columns and writings|●
Writings Index of Arthur Meiselman’s and Danin Adler’s columns and writings|●
Kandinsky Anew Index of the series by Lissa Tyler Renaud|●
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