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Mark Morris' Pepperland at UC Berkeley's Cal Performances "I read the news today oh boy." Renate Stendhal
Staghorn Fern Portraits The Photography of Jon Rendell
Killers in Our Midst Black Bag, Adolescence Two recent films set in England share the general theme of detectives hunting actual or potential murderers. Beyond that, they could not be more different Miles David Moore
Loving v. Virginia A compelling opera depicts one couple's struggle to make interracial marriage legal in Virginia Karren Alenier
The Screenwriter Died Before the Third Act A fic-review of the movie Opening Night (1977) by John Cassavetes Altenir Silva
Pickleball The Marvelous María Beatriz has found pickleball. Michael Bettencourt
Before the World Changed On the night of August 31, 1939, a young couple in upstate New York sat in an older, borrowed Ford convertible, on a hill, overlooking Lake Ontario. Arthur Danin Adler
Ay me I'm reading a fabulous book and I'm covered with mosquito bites. I don't know where they come from. It's a familiar seasonal thing. They're not bedbugs—yeesh—just same old same old. Claudine Jones
Tragedy Disguised As Comedy Two skits that are tragedies disguised as comedies. Because as T.S. Eliot wrote in Four Quartets, "humankind cannot bear very much reality". Les Marcott
Who Gets to Be White? The Great Gatsby is possibly the most beloved American literary novel. If it's not the Great American Novel, it's certainly one of the most popular and best-selling novels of the 20th Century. Gregory Luce
Me and The Dharma Bums I've wandered thousands of miles with my rucksack, up and down mountains, alone and in the company of my friends. I see now that all of us have always been Dharma Bums. Patrick Walsh
Street Singers Supporting Democracy Karren Alenier
Yesterday W.S. Merwin David Alpaugh
The Real Story of the Kandinsky Fakes The notion of Kandinsky fakes has captured the imaginations of many online Kandinsky art sites. Lissa Tyler Renaud
Suwatchai Tubtim สุวัฒน์ชัย ทับทิม Thai art belongs to every Thai. We grow up surrounded by it. It's embedded in our hearts, but the challenge is how to make people appreciate its value and benefits. Janine Yasovant
The Ocean and its Attendants Part One The oldest were assigned the most complex of responsibilities. From our catacombs when the deluge had subsided, we had to locate the spots of our power . Brian George
The Guilty Pleasures of Gossip Girl The legacy of an iconic TV series Carla Maria Verdino-Süllwold
writings
The Screenwriter Died Before the Third Act Altenir Silva A fic-review of the movie Opening Night (1977) by John Cassavetes.
imagery
Painting The Night Sky Poetry Fatal Disappearance 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
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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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