Scene4 Magazine - Arts and Media:

June 2011

Scene4 Magazine:This Issue - Commentary June 2011 www.scene4.com
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Commentary

Antoine's Beef/Luther's Hammer
Today,we have a theatre that diddles itself for the purpose of seating butts and has nothing to say of any importance about anything important.
Michael Bettencourt

Lingua Franca
STOP! You're speaking gibberish to me.
Arthur Meiselman

A Speech You Can Use
On your graduation day, better to learn how to make a delicious cookie than to hear empty blather.  Or the truth.
Nathan Thomas

Driving the Kiddie Train
A Story

What he didn't survive was a rather indiscrete affair with one of the wives of a very important U.S. ally – a potentate of a strategic Middle Eastern kingdom whom he was supposed to protect.
Les Marcott

That Is Not What I Do
The definition of masturbation I read in my dad's old 1932 Webster's was not exactly current. I've made fun of that definition many times, but I truly absorbed the functional aspect just recently. 
Claudine Jones

 


Scene4 Magazine — inPrint - downloads of plays and poetry
In This Issue

Anna Nicole:
Blonde Glory

Derived from Grace Cavalieri's book of poems, "Anna Nicole: Poems"
 the play
Premieres August 2011 at the "Dream Up Festival" in New York"

by
Grace Cavalieri

Read the Play

Special Issues


A Brief But Quirky
History of he Arts
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The Rising Fall of the Arts
January 2010 Click Here

The One
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What Is Art? / 2008
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View of the Arts/2007
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The Art of Sex in the Arts
February 2006 Click Here

State of the Art of the Arts
October 2005 Click Here
 

Scene4 Magazine — reView - review film, theatre, dance, music and other arts

Scene4 Magazine: "Rubber", "Source Code" reviewed by Miles David Moore June 2011 www.scene4.com

FILM (Reviews)
Rubber
Source Code

Every Hollywood thriller these days seems to be a combination of several others, the only distinction being how well the director and writer at hand put together the spare parts. 
Miles David Moore

Scene4 Magaine - "Vox 2011" reviewed by Karren Alenier | June 2011 www.scene4.com

MUSIC
VOX 2011

No matter what the economic wonks say about how the United States economy is improving, the abysmal financial situation in the arts is everywhere apparent.
Karren Alenier

Scene4 Magazine: "See Gertrude Stein: Five Stories" reviewed by Renate Stendhal June 2011  www.scene4.com

WRITING
Seeing Gertrude Stein:
Five Stories

At the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco... with more surprises in store!
Renate Stendhal

Scene4 Magazine: "The Plot Against My Favorite Leonard Cohen Song" | David Alpaugh  June 2011  www.scene4.com

MUSIC
The Plot Against My
Favorite Leonard Cohen Song

The threat to destroy a great song for over 25 years.
David Alpaugh

Scene4 Magazine: "Sistah Tribe - Let the Phoenix Rise" | Sheri Heller  June 2011 www.scene4.com

THEATRE
SISTAH TRIBE
Let the Phoenix Rise

Audiences have called it "moving and powerful," "brave theater," "stirring, provocative, achingly-triumphant," "raw storytelling at its best".
Sheri Heller

Scene4 Magazine — inSight - Views and Perspective on the Arts  www.scene4.com


Scene4 Magazine: Kathi Wolfe - Life Among The Heffalumps www.scene4.com
Love—the Artist's 'Sleight of Hand'

Does Fran Leibowitz's writing block stem in part from her dissing of her audience?
Kathi Wolfe

Scene4 Magazine: Comics - "My Old Man - Alone with Veronica Lake" Elliot Feldman June 2011 www.scene4.com


COMICS
My Old Man!
Alone with Veronica Lake

A new series by Scene4's resident mad cartoonist
Elliot Feldman

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


Elena Ruehr's Cantata

This spring the Steiny Road Poet has had the occasion to enjoy the rich sound of large choral groups. .
Karren Alenier

Scene4 Magazine: "Nienke's Lucky Dogs" | Janine Yasovant | June 2011 www.scene4.com

ARTS OF THAILAND
Nienke's Lucky Dogs

Many pet dogs are under-socialized or not socialized at all and spoiled-rotten, with many behavior problems.
Janine Yasovant

คลิกเพื่ออ่านบทความนี้ เป็นภาษาไทย

Scene4 Magazine: "Wildreness Faces" | Griselda Steiner June 2011  www.scene4.com


POETRY
Wilderness Faces

Our own blue river
Lined with steel mountains
The tower carcasses
Strewn against the sky
Echo cries of human sorrow

Griselda Steiner

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