inFocus

July 2026

Who We Were
asks... Who Are We Now?

Carla Maria Verdino-Süllwold

Quirky San Francisco
The Photography of
Jon Rendell
 

One Danced, the Other Didn’t
The Life of Chuck, Train Dreams
Both, ultimately, demonstrate the interconnectedness of people and the universe, although one nurses serious doubts about that.
Miles David Moore               

Cirque du Soleil
Auana in Waikiki
A Magical Celebration of
Hawaiian Culture

Renate Stendhal

inView

An Anti-Fascist Resistance to AI
MichaelBettencourt | Scene4 Magazine | www.scene4.comA technology easily adapted to a fascist politics, a politics that seems to be thriving in certain parts of the world (including the United States).  
Michael Bettencourt

Who We Were and... Are
  Scene4 MagazineThey were people who found their way during the earliest migrations to the North American continent. They were not "Indians." They were Native Americans.
Arthur Danin Adler

I Dabble with Danger
Claudine Jones | Scene4 MagazineI've been thinking about relationships. Relationships mostly between men and women, and how miserably mismatched the people in my family seem to have been. 
Claudine Jones

The Old Men Monologues Part V
Les Marcott | Scene4 Magazine | www.scene4.com
Political Prop: Do you ever notice how the corn grows a little straighter every election year? Not because of better seed, mind you—no, it’s because it’s bracing itself. It knows what’s comin’. 
Les Marcott

Reimagining America
Gregory Luce | Scene4 MagazineHow poets can and should respond to the threat that fascism poses to our nation. The answers were as diverse as the poets themselves.
Gregory Luce

So you think your life is hard? William Friedkin’s Sorcerer
Patrick Walsh | Scene4 Magazine If you’ve had a trying day, a hectic week, have I got a cinematic dose of relativity for you, a riveting film to shrink your quotidian ordeals down to the annoyance of a pesky fly at a picnic.
Patrick Walsh

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inSight

The Last Dream of Frida Kahlo
and Diego Rivera
Karren Alenier

Seven of My Own
David Alpaugh

Kandinsky's Odesa, Ukraine Context
The Fate of Modern Art in the Russian Empire
Gregory Vernitsky
Edited and Introduced Again by L.T. Renaud

And Sappho Makes Five
Tea at the White House
July 4th, 1934
Hans Gallas

Series from the
 Border of Mekong

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Countries that lack a complete understanding of their own history can construct narratives in different ways.
Janine Yasovant

The Snare of Distance and the Sunglasses of the Seer /Part Five
If we are a storehouse for the seeds of every form and the sprouts of every sort of life, who knows but that we might not scare ourselves?
Brian George

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Othello Updated
It evoked a strong emotional response in this reviewer, reminding her of the current war in Iran and the reality that the American public is not getting a truthful picture of what is happening there.
Karren Alenier

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What's New

Notes, Announcements and Comments from Scene4 Writers and Artists

Perspectives

writings

10 Things Screenwriters Hate     Altenir Silva

Mother and Child       Sandeep Girish Bhatnagar
A Lady of around thirty or so was crying in the court corridor.
Around her were litigants accompanied by their lawyers.
   

imagery

Painting
Tower
Writings
A Lesson in History
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  

Scene4 Magazine: Perspectives - Audio | Theatre Thoughts  | Michael Bettencourt  | www.scene4.com


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

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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

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books

Prior Issues From The Archives

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SpecialIssues

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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|

SpecialIndexes

Hours of fine reading and research. A unique array of articles as comtemporary as when they were first published.


The Steiny Road
Index of Karren Alenier’s
columns and writings
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Film Reviews
Index of Miles David Moore’s 
reviews and writings
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Writings
Index of Renate Stendhal’s
writings and reviews
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Writings
Index of Arthur Danin Adler’s columns and writings
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Kandinsky Anew
Index of the series by
Lissa Tyler Renaud
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