September 2023
The Arctic Over A Century of Exploration, Study, and Art Carla Maria Verdino-Süllwold
High Pressure Reality, BlackBerry Two recent and excellent movies depict situations in which the protagonists find themselves in trouble with government investigators. Miles David Moore
Some Murals in San Francisco The Photography of Jon Rendell
Derry Girls Say Nothing Last October, the Marvelous María Beatriz and I finished watching the final season of Derry Girls, which ends with the vote in 1998 for the Good Friday Agreement. Michael Bettencourt
Croissants and DarkRoast Coffee There are few, if any, singers today who can deliver a song with only a piano behind them or a subdued trio... no throbbing percussion, no ejaculating bass, just the singer and her lyrics. Arthur Danin Adler
Spiral walk This is another one of those grim late-night screeds it seems appropriate to barf up—at least a soupçon—as a toxin release. Claudine Jones
All This Talk Of Aliens When there is not talk about the Trump indictments, President Biden's incoherence, or the war in Ukraine alien chatter has become front and center. Les Marcott
No Spare People, by Erin Hoover The very first poem in the book lays out the seemingly impossible array of tasks that face the creative woman who is also expected to raise and nurture a child. Gregory Luce
What Is It About Blackbirds? Some genius whose name has been unjustly effaced by time penned a short poem in the boggy mists of 9th century Ireland. It has delighted readers and listeners ever since. Patrick Walsh
The Slo-Mo of Audiences for Poetry The Steiny Road Poet organized and scripted an in-person reading of five poets including herself for the Arts Club of Washington on July 21, 2023. Karren Alenier
How Annandale Went Out
First published in 1910, long before medically assisted suicide became legal in Edwin Arlington Robinson's Maine.
David Alpaugh
Pahas Tongting พะหัสย์ ทองติง His humility and courage to present himself to be accepted and his relentless education placed him and his artwork in the public eye. Janine Yasovant
A Lot You've Wanted to Know About Kandinsky and Theatre, cont. Are you aware of people who came up with theatre ideas similar to Kandinsky's, perhaps stemming from similar sources of influence?. Kiril Bolotnikov and Lissa Tyler Renaud
Revenge is a Dish Best Tasted Cold Before being kicked out, I attended a parochial high school for two years—two years of Hell, or of preparation for the arcane tortures of the Apocalypse. Brian George
writings
Dialogues From Love! Altenir Silva The Director leaves the stage. They change their emotions from loving to hateful. They both speak quietly but sharply, always trying not to be heard.
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.
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A 15-Year Quest I remember painting what turned out to be my largest finished canvas. It then waited some 15 years until its time arrived. The Art of Philip Gerstein
Painting Pierside Poetry Omo River Pilgrim 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
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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
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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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