August 2023
Hamburg Ballet Festival A Streetcar Named Desire from Prague Renate Stendhal
The Way Childhood Should Be Robert McCloskey's The Art of Wonder Carla Maria Verdino-Süllwold
Street Photography It captures the fleeting magic of the streets revealing the extraordinary within the seemingly mundane. The Photography of Jon Rendell
Conspirators Transatlantic White House Plumbers The word "conspiracy" has a negative connotation, but one person's conspiracy is another person's band of heroes. Miles David Moore
Why Liberalism Failed by Patrick J. Deneen I read this book prompted by a story in Politico to get a sense of what this new intellectual darling of conservatives had to say.. Michael Bettencourt
Rivers Running Backwards The timely and jarring juxtaposition of the Hollywood Strike(s) and Christopher Nolan's to-date masterpiece, Oppenheimer, is a painfully recurring echo for historical perspective. Arthur Danin Adler
Fear I just climbed the stairs to go pee. 30 minutes ago I did the same thing, only it was to get some sunscreen before I went outside. Claudine Jones
The Life And Death of Stringbean David "Stringbean" Akeman was a most beloved Grand Ole Opry star from 1942 till his death in 1973. He shared the same birthdate with Billie Holiday and Frank Sinatra. Les Marcott
A Masterpiece by Midnight In no other art form does Ezra Pound's dictum "Make it New" apply more powerfully than in jazz, particularly what is sometimes called modern jazz. Gregory Luce
Liner Notes: Diamonds & Diptychs It pays to read an album's liner notes. I've written before about this modern sub-genre. Sometimes you discover unexpected personnel on a track or how a song riffs on an earlier melody. Patrick Walsh
The Gaze of Frederick Douglas He was the leading male voice for women's suffrage in the United States. His influence on abolishing slavery and women's rights was substantial. Karren Alenier
Name That Poem
Here are 50% of the words and syllables in a famous American poem.
David Alpaugh
Paddy Thunvong Vongthunvong ธัญวงศ์ วงศ์ธัญวงศ์ He created happiness and impressed the visitors and friends who were waiting for the time when the world would stop turning. Janine Yasovant
A Lot You've Wanted to Know About Kandinsky and Theatre, cont. Can we find evidence of Kandinsky's theatre work in actual practitioners today?. Kiril Bolotnikov and Lissa Tyler Renaud
My Friend, the Minotaur/ Part Three How evolved you are, Brian, to have not disowned your roots. How sensible you are to not wage war on the dead. Brian George
writings
Village Nights Altenir Silva It was a Saturday night in Greenwich Village when I approached a young man who had a guitar on his back. I asked if he had a match to light my cigarette.
Quadrangle Harriet Halliday Renaud Janie's voice on the phone was very clear and almost brisk, attending only to present business. Scott didn't remember Janie's ever having sounded like that.
images
Rituals of the Summer There is hardly anything that is more Bostonian than spending some part of the summer "on the Cape"! The Art of Philip Gerstein
Painting Untitled #07 Writing Affirmation of a Submarine Empire 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
Letters to the Editor
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Special—Issues
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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 Danin Adler's columns and writings|●
Kandinsky Anew Index of the series by Lissa Tyler Renaud|●
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