*** Baby, it’s on you by Mike Foldes Review I had a chance recently to visit the Karl and Helen Burger Gallery at Kean University in Union, New Jersey, where Brazilian-American artist and cultural activist Duda Penteado has a solo show running through to...
The Ruined, Blessed Stairs by Donna D. Vitucci We of course desire their kisses, we cry out for them in dreams, try to grab up the mists before they fade. Sheet hems and ant trails in the dirt, the invisible carving the landscape. We nod where they...
Photo credit: STXENTERTAINMENT.COM Scene from Hustlers In Hustlers, Women Tell the Story by Margot Parmenter Film Reviewer With Hustlers, writer-director Lorene Scafaria manages to make a story about a gang of strippers who drug and defraud men...
Lotta filming for her video, Kekta. *** Lotta Lemetti: In Search of Polycultural Identity Known as a versatile and prolific photographer highly skilled in both digital and analog, Lotta Lemetti has sustained and contributed significantly to the field for years....
Binghamton Visitor Bureau Photo *** Our Back Yard The Earth is rich with treasure. We are fortunate to have had the opportunity to mine a bit, and time and again to have hit pay dirt. In addition to the people whose works appear in the links below, there are...
Death of a Dandelion The day I died was not just one day. It was a year, maybe two, maybe three – It was slow. It was painful And it went unnoticed. The sun still rose. The day I died, I did not go coughing. There was no sobbing, no wheezing, I did not die...
Body Buried Body burned into a wooden box Or maybe gently paced into a casket; Dug just a bit too high underground. Dressed in a last pair of clothes; Hands to chest – A lonely name ground into pink marbled stone; Settled under the next available lot – The leaves from...
SUBMARINE The art of Jules Gotay Language & Perception: Making the Connection CARNIVAL Artist’s statement: My paintings live on the border between language and the physical world. They exist in the place where ideas become...
*** Love of Acting Takes Center Stage Binghamton community theater perseveres by Chris Kocher Contributing Writer The scene: August 1993. A final dress rehearsal for Tennessee Williams’ “The Night of the Iguana,” the first-ever KNOW...
Taking Another Fall by Stephen Poleskie Columnist At the end of my previous column I had implied that I might write about some of my other falls in the next issue. At the time I did not know that this was going to be Ragazine’s final issue. I thought to...
TRUTH AND TRUST – Through the glass darkly by James Palombo Politics Editor I was watching the news – democrats and republicans going back and forth about the whistleblower report and the phone call transcript tied to President Trump’s conversation with...
Photo by Joseph Chan on Unsplash; U.S. Consulate General in Hong Kong & Macau *** Hong Kong, Neo-Colonialism and the poison pill of identity By Fabia Chenivesse-Wong Columnist Identity is a contradictory notion. We use it to signify the objective – the...
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The name Ragazine was coined in the mid-’70s in Columbus, Ohio, as the title of an alternative newspaper/magazine put together by a group of friends. It was revived in 2004 as ragazine.cc, the on-line magazine of arts, information and entertainment, a collaboration of artists, writers, poets, photographers, travelers and interested others. And that’s what it still is.
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