Ed Coffey/Essay

Why Do I Race? by Ed CoffeyContributing Writer I ran for 10 years before I ever even knew that ordinary people raced. I thought that racing was for elite or, at least, very talented runners. The people I saw on TV, I thought they were special people. I thought...

Fred Roberts/Poland Playlist

  by Fred Roberts Music Editor   Category: The Polish Falco Song Title: Nie poddawaj się Artist: Kombi Year: 1983 Link: https://youtu.be/l9g7d2f6L10 Category: Rocking sixties ladies Song Title: Motyle Artist: Amazonki Year: 1969 Link:...
Barbara Rosenthal/A Crack in the Sidewalk

Barbara Rosenthal/A Crack in the Sidewalk

      IMPOSITIONS OR INDEPENDENCE: A Call to Reject Corruptions to the Artist   by Barbara Rosenthal Contributing Columnist NYC, Sept. 1, 2018 For this month’s column, I’ll quote three people, Beatrice S. Madregiore, Linda Montano and Lawrence...

Cyrillic Summer/Fred’s Playlist

    NO COLLUSION by Fred Roberts Music Editor   Category: Bulgaria Song Title: Къщата на изгряващото слънце (House of the Rising Sun) Artist: Емил Димитров (Emil Dimitrov) Year: 1964 Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnMbItLSxTY Category: Yugoslavia...
A New Zimbabwe

A New Zimbabwe

*** A New Zimbabwe A Christmas road trip through a land of contrasts   by James Collector and James Roditi   We picked up Renée, our seasoned 4×4 Toyota Prado in Lusaka, spent a day gathering supplies, and were on the road to Livingstone when we...

Hunger and Hallelujahs book review

  Hunger and Hallelujahs by Philip Elliott Fiction Big Pond Rumours Press, 2018 $10.00 (Canadian), 22 page ISBN: 978-0-9959662-3-9   Reviewed by Charles Rammelkamp The unnamed Irish girl at the heart of the nine flash fictions that make up Philip Elliott’s...

Barbara Rosenthal/A Crack in the Sidewalk

    PROCESS VS PRODUCT : What is the Point of Art/ What is The Interplay of Elements and Considerations in Artmaking / How Does This Body of Video Hold Up by Barbara Rosenthal Contributing Columnist NYC, July 1, 2018 A lengthy, thoughtful reply from Anna...

Greg Stewart/Around New York

    Jazz Masters Still Tuned In   by Greg Stewart Events Editor Drawings by Lidia Moroz   The world of jazz has such variety these days. Ranging from standards plucked and hammered out in any variety of basements and backrooms in cities all over...

William Wolak/New Work

  Take a walk with us through the psycho-sexual forest in William Wolak’s World of Collage   I make collages out of all kinds of materials.  Most are made out of paper engravings. Many collages are digitally generated or enhanced.  To begin a piece, I...

Brendan Brady/Poetry

The Snow in March is Tired Powdered abstractions in an opaque vanity, sickly snow perspires and gasps, engorged and sinking into sleep. A lullaby swallowed is wasted under evening daffodil while streetlights seize, blinking and confused. The power flashed and the...

Henry Giroux’s Summer Critical Reading List

  Henry Giroux’s Critical Reads in the Age of the American Nightmare     By Henry A. Giroux Contributing Editor Ιt is hard to imagine a more urgent moment for developing a language of critique and possibility that would serve to awaken our critical and...

On Location/France

  Jan Fabre : jardins des délices er rebuffades   Jan Favre, « Folklore Sexuel Belge » et « Mer du Nord Sexuelle Belge » Galerie Templon, Grenier Saint Lazare Paris, France du 17 mai au 21 juillet 2018 Jan Fabre a est un artiste iconoclaste d’exception. Il a...

Evan Lockwood/Commentary

  Epiphany in a Pizza Shop A Trumpian Reverie   By Evan Lockwood Illegally stoned on a plant not federally legal yet, in line at a pizza shop on a Friday night. The line is uncomfortably long for being this stoned. A young girl – clearly the daughter of an...

Paul Sohar on John Amen’s “… Overwhelm”

“Illusion of an Overwhelm” by John Amen New York Quarterly Books First Edition 72 Pages Paperback ISBN-10: 1630450480 ISBN-13: 978-1630450489   By Paul Sohar It was no illusion, but a real “overwhelm” that this reader experienced going over John Amen’s latest...
Ellen Jantzen / Photographer Spotlight

Ellen Jantzen / Photographer Spotlight

©2018  Ellen Jantzen Unexpected Geology #8a Photographer Spotlight   Unexpected Geology Artist Statement In this series I am exploring the realm of one’s environmental surroundings, how that is absorbed into one’s psyche and how this changes through relocations....