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Fascinating Backstories of Lesser Known Statues in San Francisco | Jon Rendell | Scene4 Magazine - May 0518 | www.scene4.com

FASCINATING BACKSTORIES

"...the most significant piece of sculpture done within 500 years."

Jon Rendell

CONFESSIONS OF A PERSONAL ASSISTANT

To give that much to your work, especially to give without being highly visible – which is what an assistant does, you have to have faith in the person for whom you work

Carla Maria
Verdino-Süllwold

The Shape of Water | reviewed by Miles David Moore | Scene4 Magazine-May 2018 | www.scene.com

FACES OF LOVE

The Shape of Water, Maudie,
Call Me by Your Name

Guillermo del Toro is one of the great triumvirate of Mexican directors.

Miles David Moore

PROSTHETICS
The Marvelous María Beatriz and I finally got around to watching Blade Runner 2049, Denis Villeneuve’s upgrade of the 1982 version with Harrison Ford (who also appears in the 2017 version).
Michael Bettencourt

SCENE 5
I cannot remember one day of my life in which I did not interact with an animal, usually a pet. A pet, pet… what a word, what a gratuitous,
self-hubris-licking word.
Arthur Meiselman

WHITHER
I started out this morning thinking maybe I'll follow a random thought see where it goes and the first thing that came up
was writing!
Claudine Jones

A TEACHER PREPARES
The teacher had no therapeutic training.
This particular session taught me a very useful lesson.
“Don’t mind-fuck the student.”
Nathan Thomas

MUSIC EPIPHANIES - PART 1: “BORN TO RUN”
As a kid, there were three musicians or musical entities that I despised with almost no exceptions: Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, and the Grateful Dead.
Patrick Walsh

ASTRAL WEEKS REVISITED
Call him the Belfast Cowboy, call him Van The Man, call him the chief purveyor of blue eyed soul. But after 40 plus years in the music business, George Ivan Morrison continues to astound.
Les Marcott


	CANDY PORN GERTRUDE STEIN & THE STATE OF THE UNION Who is that goggleless guy? Karren LaLonde Alenier

The Steiny Road To Operadom | Karren LaLonde Alenier | Scene4 Magazine | www.scene4.com

Atsadet Khommarat | Janine Yasovant | Scene4 Magazine - May 2018 | www.scene4.com

ATSADET KHOMMARAT

I intend to use these three colors to create distinctive dimensions, thickness, thinness and depth of shapes in my imagination.

Janine Yasovant

คลิกเพื่ออ่านบทความนี้ เป็นภาษาไทย

OLD FART VILLAGE

Fight to the Finish

Elliot Feldman

Russian Theatre | Michael Corriere | Scene4 Magazine -May 2018 | www.scene4.com

RUSSIAN THEATRE

Should American playwrights interact?

Michael Corriere

CHAOS

Mimi Lobell:
Now is the time for the feminine principle to resurface in world culture and some people are early warning instruments.
I feel that I am one.

Griselda Steiner

Hollywood Politika (The 10) | Arthur Meiselman | Scene4 Magazine - May 2018 - www.scene4.com

HOLLYWOOD
POLITIKA

The American film industry, especially Hollywood, is a montage of "Arts&Poltics" and "Politics&Arts".

Arthur Meiselman

GEORGE CARLIN’S
7 DIRTY WORDS YOU CAN’T SAY ON TELEVISION

Um... when was that?

Elliot Feldman

WOMAN WITH PURPLE HAIR

CONFABULATIONS OF LOVE

The Art of
David Wiley

Harriet Halliday Renaud | Scene4 Magazine

A WRITER’S PAEAN TO THE TYPEWRITER
“Packaged Instructions: The Instant Short Story.” It’s a winning title all right—but unfortunately it came out of my head—and it’s a proven truth that all my brains happen to be in my fingers, and only function when I’m hitched up to a typewriter.
Harriet Halliday Renaud

Tale | INTERVIEW WITH A FARM GOOSE
I try to make music sometimes, but I’m not very good at it. I like to chase little girls and make them scream, and sometimes I like to bite someone, for excitement.
David Wiley


	UNDRESS ME Michael Bettencourt In a bar, Laura turns to Stefan and asks him to undress her by word of mouth, in his best mother tongue.


	THE GREED GENE Michael Bettencourt A young couple is told by their genetic counselor, the "genie of genes" that their child has the greed gene, and there is nothing they can do.

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


	THEATRE THOUGHTS


	An astute and entertaining array of audio essays on an array of topics by an astute and entertaining essayist.

Letters to the Editor
Recent Letters

Qreviews
Long & short reader reviews of theatre, film and more


	Karren LaLonde Alenier The Dresser addresses what’s underneath the art

		Miles David Moore Thoughts and observations from, to, for or against



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