August 2025
Pilgrims In A Perilous World Conclave, A Real Pain The Oscar-winning screenplay gives us enticing, alarming food for speculation. Miles David Moore
The San Francisco Skyline The Photography of Jon Rendell
Last Year in Marienbad Seeing this film, on my first visit to Paris, as a schoolgirl, was like walking through a thick curtain of dreams. Renate Stendhal
The One-Man Plays of CATF Each summer since 1991, the Contemporary American Theater Festival (CATF) presents five plays, many of them world premieres. Karren Alenier
Mowers Yesterday, I mowed the lawn, which seems to grow back behind me like the Lernaean Hydra from Greek mythology as I plow through my rounds. Michael Bettencourt
Forward and Back In the beginning, there were two people. Probably more... human life evidently emerged in many places on the planet almost simultaneously. Arthur Danin Adler
Fantasia on Fascism Well here's something funny. Yesterday I finished all of the seasons of Northern Exposure and I had been saving myself by not reading any commentary. Claudine Jones
Redbone: The Trailblazing Native American Rock Band A pioneering Native American rock band, a group whose music and legacy have carved a distinctive niche in both Native American and mainstream pop culture. Les Marcott
Diorama, by Sandra Marchetti Her third full-length collection, depicts a woman in complicated, uneasy relationships with the world, nature, and herself. Gregory Luce
The First Time The World Changed For Me I remember exactly where I was the first time the world changed for me. My friends and I were walking along 57th Street on a brisk night in the winter of 1993. Patrick Walsh
Sharpening the Impulse of Collaborative Composing A Look Behind the Scenes Karren Alenier
I Know a Man Robert Creely David Alpaugh
The Real Story of the Kandinsky Fakes, cont. They came with their fakes wrapped in newspaper in plastic bags, telling the most persuasive stories about the origins of the works. Jelena Hahl-Fontaine - edited by Lissa Tyler Renaud
It's A Mad Bad Mad Bad World A fic-review of the podcast Dumberdinkers Radio Altenir Silva
Bancha Ma For over a decade, he has added vibrancy and value to small local tourism businesses through art and artistic activities. Janine Yasovant
The Music of the Spheres, Again Audible There are moments when the world comes suddenly to a stop, when a schism opens, into which one may or may not fall. Brian George
writings
Sunset and Evening Star Sandeep Girish Bhatnagar Within an hour, an ambulance arrived and we were on our way to Bombay Hospital to try to undo the damage.
imagery
Painting High Seas Poetry Notes on the Battle of Lepanto 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
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 Danin Adler’s columns and writings|●
Kandinsky Anew Index of the series by Lissa Tyler Renaud|●
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