inFocus

The Odyssey
A Complicated Debate
It is beguiling that a movie based on one of the foundational stories of Western civilization should be both a record-breaking hit and the center of spirited debate.
Miles David Moore               

Sea Urchin Shells
 Scientifically known as tests, they are the hard, internal skeletons left behind after a sea urchin dies and its spines fall away.
The photography of
Jon Rendell
 

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Immune to Women and Sex
Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey
This is not a movie review. It’s a brief list of the sexless characters Nolan serves up.
Renate Stendhal

Open Secrets
(Georgio de Chirico is speaking)

As though pregnant, the earth stretched out before him.
 The traveler was not who he was. I am not who I am.

Brian George

inView

Edges
I had a dream one night where I was overly concerned about where the edges of my body met the non-body universe.  
Michael Bettencourt

The Odyssey of Ulysses
The question is and to date unanswered: Was there ever a Homer who wrote this "Homeric" masterpiece? Ah the mystery of history.
Arthur Danin Adler

Assuming the Righteousness of Aim
I might just be a sorry-ass bowman—sorry, bowwoman—in retrospect.  Missing the target, focusing on the wrong thing, distracted by the shiny one. 
Claudine Jones

When Legends Stay Too Long:
Are Aging Performers Diminishing Their Legacy?

There is something uncomfortable about
watching a great artist struggle with the very gift
that made them famous.
 
Les Marcott

There’s Only One Elmo
Another in an occasional series on underrated jazz pianists.
Of all the pianists I’ve written about, Elmo Hope is likely to be truly the most underrated.
Gregory Luce

Shadow at the Blinds
The details of a life drop away
And all one is left is alive —
You thought this because you’re tired of winter.
Patrick Walsh

inSight

Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World
Lover of the natural world. Hermit poet, Beatnik, Feminist, Lesbian, Smoker, Eccentric who talked to the animals in the woods.
Karren Alenier

The Sound of Trees
Robert Frost
David Alpaugh

Cultural Musings on Kandinsky’s Yellow Sound We are used to knowing plays in translation, and we also know that a lot may be “lost in translation.”
Gregory Vernitsky
Edited and Introduced by Lissa Tyler Renaud

A Tale of
Three Cities and 9/11

As half in sun and half in clouds
Hans Gallas

Gulached Kaochaimaha
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His works reflect the interconnection between nature, humanity, and society.
Janine Yasovant

Perspectives

writings

A Love Supreme    Altenir Silva
Somehow, I found myself in Seattle without understanding how I had gotten there.

Feed the Fish           Sandeep Girish Bhatnagar
Nobody saw him go overboard. Maybe, he had second thoughts before he hit the water.

imagery

Painting
Everything is Going Around
Writings
Four American Haikus
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  

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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

  & responses

books

What's New

Notes, Announcements, Comments from Scene4 Writers and Artists

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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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