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October 2024

inFocus

San Francisco Opera's
New Production of Verdi's

Un Ballo in Maschera
Assassination of a King

Renate Stendhal

Window Reflections
The Photography of Jon Rendell

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Ghosts and Dreams
All of Us Strangers
I Saw the TV Glow

Two recent films use dreamlike fantasy to tell poignant, melancholy stories of people consigned against their will to be misfits.
Miles David Moore

Siriratda Noiwichai
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My paintings are related to women, flowers, and silk to convey the soft and sweet feelings, the beauty of women, and the unique local dressing culture.
Janine Yasovant

See the USA
The Travel Diary of Alice B. Toklas

Hans Gallas

inView

On the Death of Small Creatures in Our Care
MichaelBettencourt | Scene4 Magazine | www.scene4.comOur eldest cat, Cordelia, 15 years of age, died. I so want to make this remembrance of her sentimental, soft, sadly joyous. But I must make one thing clear: she did not die of her own volition.   
Michael Bettencourt

Mythmaking
Arthur Danin Adler  Scene4 MagazineThere is an almost countless number of urban-rural myths regarding people in foreign lands—places other than where you live.
Here are a few.
Arthur Danin Adler

Confounding
Claudine Jones | Scene4 MagazineI'm finally really mourning my father. He's been gone since 1994. There's a very detailed and eloquent passage in the book I'm reading—the conflicted daughter at her dad's bedside .
Claudine Jones

Dining With Orson Welles
Les Marcott | Scene4 Magazine | www.scene4.com
Looking back at the life and career of the late, great Orson Welles, it's hard to imagine how far he had fallen from the great heights he once ascended to.
Les Marcott

Notes Toward a Memoir of Madness and Writing - Part V
Gregory Luce | Scene4 MagazineIt's been almost six years since my resurrection and I have not had any further episodes. I wish I could say that anxiety had completely vanished, but in fact, it's a constant presence along the periphery.
Gregory Luce

Firenze
Patrick Walsh | Scene4 MagazineThat year it was Florence and Tuscany,
and we had the best bistecca anyone could remember,
better than Luger's, better than Delmonico's...

Patrick Walsh

inSight

Jamie Raskin Oratorio
He wanted to preserve the details of both his son's short life and that terrible day of January 6.
Karren Alenier

Cuthroat Bandits
in the Paths of Fame
The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

Carla Maria Verdino-Süllwold

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About A TV Series
But Were Too Afraid To Ask

Altenir Silva

The Artist as Blind Seer: A New Perspective on de Chirico/ Part 2
Perhaps the most important immediate predecessor to the Surrealists, who adopted and then abandoned him.
Brian George

Nigeria: Bauhaus Architecture
and Kandinsky Fashion

A creative hybrid of Kandinsky's Bauhaus work and an African visual sensibility, manifested in Nigerian fashion.
Lissa Tyler Renaud

Riding the "A"

May Swenson

The thrill of riding Swenson's train, riding her ride, riding her "a," her vowels, are all metaphors for riding life itself.

David Alpaugh

Perspectives

writings

Chicken Bone (Part Three)
My Story with Ernest Hemingway   Altenir Silva 
I began searching to meet Allison, but I couldn't find her. The house was very big. Then, I tried to find the guy who was with her. No way; he had vanished as well.

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House On The Hill
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

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Letters to the Editor

 

 

 

books

 

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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


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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