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	Bournounville’s La Sylphide at SF Ballet Not a Love Story Renate Stendhal

Sydney Opera House
The Photography of
Jon Rendell


	That is My Home of Love Hamnet If I have strayed, Like him that travels, I return again… Miles David Moore


	The Snare of Distance and the Sunglasses of the Seer / Part Three If we humans cannot travel from one side of the omniverse to the other, it is perhaps because, at this point in the Kali Yuga, we have gotten much too big. Brian George

On the Grounds of Reality
My current creative project, other than spring garden work (oh, what fun that is), is adapting David Greig’s The Book of I, published last year by Europa.
Michael Bettencourt

The Beginning Never Ends
The "redux" that follows couldn't be more timely. The dream that was America is sinking in a swamp of Christian nationalism led by an ignorant orange fat boardwalk hustler.
Arthur Danin Adler

1000 and counting
I got other things to do. I'm back into ASL and got two choirs running. what do I need with a jigsaw puzzle? A rhetorical question of course.
Claudine Jones

A Few Of My Favorite Quotes
Over the years, I’ve collected innumerable quotes from various sources – literature, celebrity interviews, newspaper clippings, lines from songs, homespun cowboy philosophers, and the Bible.
Les Marcott

To Be Forever Hungry
This piece is an expanded version of one chapter of a memoir originally published in Scene4. I have revised and expanded it. It now forms the conclusion to the finished memoir.
Gregory Luce

Jeff Beck: The Master
Jeff Beck was that rarest man, a master and a maverick, an artist relentless in his desire to improve, push, innovate, and attain greater fluency in order to express his art ever more fully..
Patrick Walsh


	PORTRAITS: Painting with Words . It’s taken from part of the title of a favorite book in my Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas collection. Hans Gallas


	Mirror Sylvia Plath David Alpaugh


	Asking Ai To Write A Poem: Finding The Villain In A Villanelle…Or Not Karren Alenier


	Paris Correspondence: “The Music of Colors” wtRobina ed. by L.T. Renaud


	Eve Jariya Moongwattana Homeless is a film based on Pairoj Pichetmethakul’s real-life experiences working as a portrait artist for homeless people in New York.. Janine Yasovant


	*Vocal Arts DC songSLAM* On April 11, 2026, in Washington, DC, Vocal Arts DC co-partnered with Sparks & Wiry Cries to make DC the 14th city to produce a songSLAM. Karren Alenier


writings

	The New Yorker Turned 100 (Part 3 ) Altenir Silva Previously…Ernest Hemingway stood up, put his hand on JC’s shoulder, and said, “I never got a no in my entire life.” JC, feeling like an outfielder who had dropped an easy ball, could only think, “I get it—this is a nightmare. Or I’m dead. Or I’ve fallen into the multiverse.


imagery


		Painting The Enigma of Contemplation Writings What It Is 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, comments

& responses


		books

Prior Issues From The Archives

Special—Issues

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|●

Film Reviews
Index of Miles David Moore’s
reviews and writings|●

Writings
Index of Renate Stendhal’s
writings and reviews|●

Writings
Index of Arthur Danin Adler’s columns and writings|●

Kandinsky Anew
Index of the series by
Lissa Tyler Renaud|●

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