Scene4 Magazine — This Issue: August 2012


	August 2012

COMMENTARY

Our Mediated Lives
Michael Bettencourt
This year, for the third year in a row, the Macy's fireworks fired off from the Hudson River. This meant, once again, that Brooklyn and Queens lost out.

Lingua Thai
Arthur Meiselman
For a time in the last century European languages dominated international communication. Speak them not, and you were considered 'second class'.

Why Do They Muck Around With Shakespeare?
Nathan Thomas
I sympathize with theatre critics who write for dead-tree publications with precise column inches, I have the pleasure of writing only as much as I need.

Those Wonderfully Weird Band Names
Les Marcott
You have to have more than a wonderfully weird band name to get my seal of approval – you got to have talent.

Damn You, Meryl Streep
Claudine Jones
Being white in the sixties was a problem: all my heroes were people of color: Gandhi, Joan Baez, Harry Belafonte—of course I loved Pete Seeger, too; yet...

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FILM (reviews)
Moonrise Kingdom
Bernie
Fey, twee, precious—these are all words that have been used to describe the movies of Wes Anderson. They are words that made seeing Wes Anderson's movies a low priority for me.
Miles David Moore

THEATRE
Emilie, La Marquise du Châtalet
Defends Her Life Tonight
She was an 18th century philosopher, physicist, mathematician, author, translator of Newton, mother of four, lover of Voltaire among others and wife of a high-ranking military nobleman.
Catherine Conway Honig

INTERVIEW
Wimonlack Blom-Boonvises
Organic Farming In Asia
I believe Thailand with its geographical location and its readiness can have a major role as a Kitchen of the World based on organic farming.
Janine Yasovant
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Missing Nora When you read a great book, even though you don't know the writer, you want to call the author up, Holden Caulfield famously says in The Catcher in the Rye. Kathi Wolfe

	COMICS My Old Man! Santa Anita Tout An ongoing series by Scene4's resident mad cartoonist Elliot Feldman


	Post World War II In Paris What was it like post World War II in Paris for Gertrude Stein and her partner Alice B. Toklas? The Steiny Road Poet has been talking in depth to the American writer and G.I. Christopher Blake. Karren Alenier


	The Staircase The Photography of Jon Rendell


	Joy, Splendour and Poverty The Photography of Eleanor Bennett


	All Emotion Is Past The Art of SS. Burrus






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 Bag Les Marcott What's in the bag? Well…sometimes its drugs…oh hell…a lot of times its drugs. It's Columbian Gold, its Mexicali madness, its bitter root, it's a mysterious white powder.



More Poems For The Chorus Of Rocks Griselda Steiner In "MARY M and THE MAD PROPHET" - that spans millennia from the Old World to the Biblical Time of Jesus to the Now - the Chorus of Rocks appear on stage as actors draped in white robes in the desert.

Two Poems Kathi Wolfe Till We Had Faces Rude Awakening


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Letters to the Editor

Qreviews Q for "quick" - long and short reviews on theatre and film

Que Pasa Notices, announcements and coming attractions


	Karren Alenier The Dresser addresses what's underneath the art

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

	Les Marcott Dr. Barnabus T. Bynum's Travelling Minstrel Show




	SCENE4 publishes Plays, Screenplays, Scripts, Poetry and Production Notebooks in its online issues. Visit the Archives for works inPrint in Scene4

What Is Obscenity and What's Not?
January 2012 Click Here
A Brief But Quirky
History of the Arts
January 2011 Click Here

The Rising Fall of the Arts
January 2010 Click Here

The One
January 2009 Click Here

What Is Art? / 2008
January 2008 Click Here

View of the Arts/2007
January 2007 Click Here

The Art of Sex in the Arts
February 2006 Click Here

State of the Art of the Arts
October 2005 Click Here


	A Georgia Peach Sings for Her Supper Meiko is a humble and soulful performer with a wicked sense of humor.. Lia Beachy February 2008

	Dance Red Sky A first in Canada Daystar/Rosalie Jones July 2009


	The Steiny Road to Operadom A complete index of all of Karren Alenier's columns in Scene4 with links. Click Here for Access


	Comics A complete index of all of Elliot Feldman's comics in Scene4 with links. Click Here for Access


	Film Reviews A complete index of the film reviews by Scene4's Film Critic, Miles David Moore Click Here for Access


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