August 2012

COMMENTARY

Our Mediated Lives
Michael Bettencourt
 This year, for the third year in a row, the Macy's fireworks fired off from the Hudson River. This meant, once again, that Brooklyn and Queens lost out.

Lingua Thai
 Arthur Meiselman
For a time in the last century European languages dominated international communication. Speak them not, and you were considered 'second class'.

Why Do They Muck Around With Shakespeare?
Nathan Thomas
 I sympathize with theatre critics who write for dead-tree publications with precise column inches, I have the pleasure of writing only as much as I need.

Those Wonderfully Weird Band Names
Les Marcott
You have to have more than a wonderfully weird band name to get my seal of approval – you got to have talent.

Damn You, Meryl Streep
Claudine Jones
 Being white in the sixties was a problem: all my heroes were people of color: Gandhi, Joan Baez, Harry Belafonte—of course I loved Pete Seeger, too;  yet...

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August 2012