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COMMENTARY

Guns
Michael Bettencourt

Despite whatever else a gun is
it is foremost a manufactured
commodity like cigarettes.
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Hong Kong Nights at 4:30pm
Arthur Meiselman

Tricky little title isn't it?
Comes from a remorseful Mekong Whiskey
and Beaujolais hangover driven ditty.
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Her Foot Was Pretty
Nathan Thomas

In that moment I entered into
the special insanity of anyone who
wantsto write about acting.
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Gotta Go Faster
Les Marcott

There's no time to be lackadaisical.
Wean yourself off the hillbilly heroin.
Fight through the pain. It's all adrenaline
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Water Spiders
Claudine Jones
Scene4 Magazine: Claudine Jones | www.scene4.com
Once upon a time in a land of very
little consequence, a royal family had a problem with the youngest of the brood.
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FILM (reviews)
The Great Gatsby, Star Trek into Darkness
Before Midnight
Luhrmann's film is, in many ways, a remarkably
good Gatsby. In one aspect—the leading actor—it's a certifiably great one. Continue reading....
Miles David Moore

OPERA
San Francisco Opera's Tales of Hoffman
If only the director and the set designer had matched
the level of musical perfection. Continue reading...
Renate Stendhal

MUSIC
Bowdoin International Music Festival
Fifty years of opportunities received and given.
Continue reading...
Carla Maria Verdino-Süllwold


		*Off-the-Grid Garden Poetics* The Word Works' Washington Prize winner Molly Bashaw's manuscript is compatible with Steinian ars poetica. Continue Reading... Karren Alenier

	Comedy Gets Some Love Elaine May is the first person working in comedy to receive the Arts Medal since 2003. Continue Reading... Kathi Wolfe


	ARTS OF THAILAND The Karma of Temples and Artists Buddhists believe in Karma, and believe in rebirth. People donate money in expectation of a better future life. Continue reading.... Janine Yasovant Click here for page in Thai

	COMICS My Old Man! Shvitz&Cards An ongoing series by Scene4's resident and Florida swamp-loving mad cartoonist. See it... Elliot Feldman

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Wireless Inkjet All-in-One Printer


	Confessions of a Mask The Photography of Jon Rendell

Scene4 Magazine: The Art of David Wiley - "Hieroglyph V" | August 2013 | www.scene4.com


	Hieroglyph V / Homeric Outing The Art of David Wiley

Where Cats Have Lease Arthur Meiselman
A Brief History of Cats - Part 1 & 2: This is the source for a new film scheduled to begin shooting in 2014 in Vietnam (where they truly eat cats with relish).

Where Fear Has Lease Arthur Meiselman
He sat with a lit cigarette between his fingers and another still smoldering in the ashtray. He sat watching the rain slather against the windows of the empty newsroom at the newspaper where he worked.

The Valley of the Shadow Miles David Moore
Know that he murdered thirteen people in my town in the four years before this one--including a family of five in one fell swoop. The Killer's an expert housebreaker--I can vouch for that--and nobody's really sure what he looks like.

An Etiquette Guide for the Blind Kathi Wolfe
Never unseemly awaken the sleeping city
from its pastoral dreams of sirens,


	The Old Diva's Monologue from the Musical HYPATIA Griselda Steiner


	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 to stop the expression of the gene. What are they going to do?






	THEATRE THOUGHTS

New!

Benedictine Theatre
I am trying to find a place where Jeremiah and Buddha can converse.

Shallow
"Human nature" is an ideological argument, not a biological one.

The Fallen Ice Cream Cone
This is a definition of real theatre.

Old Lady on the Ten-Speed
This is another definition of real theatre.

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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 LaLonde 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

	Arthur Meiselman Sightings and musings of a time traveler




	In This Issue Inferno A Libretto As the title clearly indicates, this is a work suggested by the central elements of the first part of Dante's famous poem. The 'Night-town' setting (so familiar to us since Joyce) is to my mind the most apt contemporary equivalent of hell that we possess. by Martin Burke Read the Play

In This Issue

The Exile
A 'real-life' story of Africa.

"After that night I was somehow a different person. Knowing that I was conducting a jail break, and it had to be done without leaving any traces."

by
David Wiley

Read the Story




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Everything Old
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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


	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 all reviews by Scene4's Film Critic, Miles David Moore Click Here for Access

Scene4 Magazine | June 2012 | www.scene4.com

Michael Bettencourt
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Nathan Thomas
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Theatre
June 2012

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