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inFocus

Time-Rome | Jon Rendell | Scene4 Magazine | December 2022 | www.scene4.com

Time • Rone
Street artist Tyrone Wright has taken over a city's iconic railway station's mysterious upper level and ballroom to create a nostalgic love letter.
The Photography of Jon Rendell

Theatregoing in London
The West End was once again bustling with lights and life, the theatres full, the pubs and restaurants overflowing.
Carla Maria Verdino-Süllwold

Theatregoing in London | Carla Maria Verdino-Süllwold | Scene4 Magazine | December 2022 | www.scene4.com
Elvis | reviewed by Miles David Moore | Scene4 Magazinel | November | www.scene4.com

Rock and a Hard Place
Elvis, The Greatest Beer Run Ever

Elvis Presley has now been dead longer than he was alive.  This seems scarcely credible given his ubiquity in pop culture, much of which was engineered by his tireless vulgarian of a manager.
Miles David Moore

Genesis of a Painting
It is the first real spring day of the year, and as it often happens on the first spring day I feel a strong urge to paint.
David Wiley

Genesis of a Painting | David Wiley | Scene4 Magazine | December 2022 | www.scene4.com

inView

Lizzo and the Flute
MichaelBettencourt | Scene4 Magazine | www.scene4.comI am sometimes a bit late to come to things, and certainly Lizzo is one of them. I like her. She's entertaining, raunchy, loving, high spirited, confident and fun.
Michael Bettencourt

Time Flies As Time Flows
Arthur Danin Adler | Scene4 Magazine | www.scene4.comI know that some readers are disturbed by my repetitive gloomy portrayals of the longevity of this planet as we now know it. One wrote to me and said...
Arthur Danin Adler

Voice
Claudine Jones | Scene4 MagazineSo here's the weird thing: with the new director we were asked to go around the room and say what it was we liked about choral singing and when they got to me I said...
Claudine Jones

Santa Claus Monologues
Les Marcott | Scene4 Magazine | www.scene4.comWell, as you've heard, the rumors of Santa Claus's death are true. He passed away peacefully last night under the mistletoe with Ms. Claus performing the last kiss.
Les Marcott

Poetic Alchemy
Gregory Luce | Scene4 MagazineIn her new collection, Iron Into Flower, Yvette Neisser has achieved poetic alchemy, transmuting loss into wisdom, grief into joy—or at least acceptance, memory into living presence.
Gregory Luce

Me and My Old Mustang
Patrick Walsh | Scene4 MagazineMe and my old Mustang were built the same year —
A lot of things have come and gone,
but we're still here.

Patrick Walsh

inSight

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Kandinsky Anew | Lissa Tyler Renaud | Scene4 Magazine | www.scene4.com

The Artists Who Ignore
Their Own Banshees
The Steiny Road Poet was disturbed by Martin McDonagh's film The Banshees of Inisherin.
Karren Alenier

Kandinsky Stages
Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition
3. From Glass Painting to Performance

Giovanni Vinciguerra
Edited and Introduced by Lissa Tyler Renaud

Teerapol Saisombat
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Elegance and charm of ancient craftsmen, famous for its clarity, purity,
and gorgeous patterns

Janine Yasovant

Teerapol Saisombat | Janine Yasovant | Scene4 Magazine | December 2022 | www.scene4.com

Cabbage Escape from the Holidays
 If you are like me the related food orgies of the holidays are a dread.
 I found my personal salvation from stuffed turkeys in eating cabbage.

  Renate Stendhal

Cabbage Escape from the Holidays | Renate Stendhal | Scene4 Magazine | December 2022 | www.scene4.com

Elsinore Agonistes or MacLeish Unleashed

Imagine Shakespeare wrote: To see or not to see. (Hamlet might die fencing in the dark.) Tweak that misquote one iota: sea or not to sea.(He's a schizoid sailor, trying to embark.)
David Alpaugh

Visual Poems | David Alpaugh } Scene4 Magazine | November 2022

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Perspectives

Ad Astra - Higher Aspirations | Phillip Gerstein | Scene4 Magazine | December 2022 | www.scene4.com
Fire Reborn | The Art of SS Burrus-A Retrospective | Scene4 Magazine | www.scene4.com
Patrick Nagel - It's In the Eyes | Scene4 Magazine | www.scene4.com
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Ad Astra ~ Higher Aspirations
The Art of Philip Gerstein

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

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writings

Let's Get Out of California    Altenir Silva  
When Marlon went to Loren's house, he didn't know she was on the beach. He wanted to explain what had happened after they made love.

The Square    Harriet Halliday Renaud  
Anton Tillis, urban designer, professor of City and Regional Planning, conceived of The Square while a condemned corner rooming house burned down.

media

Audio

Scene4 Magazine: Perspectives - Audio | Theatre Thoughts  | Michael Bettencourt  | www.scene4.com


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

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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

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Prior Issues

Scene4 Magazine | Views for Views | November 2022 | www.scene4.com Scene4 Magazine | A Child of the First People-October 2019 | www.scene4.com
Scene4 Magazine - KNOWN/UNKNOWN - October 2022 www.scene4.com Scene4 Magazine - WOMEN IN LOVE - April 2016 www.scene4.com
Scene4 Magazine | Distortions and Patterns | July 2022 | www.scene4.com Scene4 Magazine | Art and The City-February 2020 | www.scene4.com
Scene4 Magazine | Life Beaneath the Freeways | June 2022 | www.scene4.com Scene4 Magazine | Walt Whitman-A New Bard Is Caroling | August 2019
Scene4 Magazine | Phoenix Risen | May 2022 | www.scene4.com Scene4 Magazine | THE ROAD TO FREEDOM December 1220 | www.scene4.com
Scene4 Magazine | Frida in Celebration | April 2022 | www.scene4.com Scene4 Magazine - ART -November 2013 - www,scene4.com
Scene4 Magazine - WHO WE WERE - June 2026 www.scene4.com Scene4 Magazine | Questions and answers |February 2017 | www.scene4.com

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Index of the series by
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