Abu Dhabi, India, Phuket, SIngapore *** Mapping Worlds Polemic *** Mattina Blue is a painter, designer and educator, whose work stands on decades of dedication to photographic and meditational practices. Her interest is in using the special qualities inherent to...
Green Lantern to Come Out From the Shadows? The last Green Lantern was a resounding flop. The lack of direction in the original film cost the franchise dearly. Ryan Reynolds for his part didn’t fit the Hal Jordan character, but thankfully it didn’t hurt his...
Words for My Twelfth Grade English Class on Inauguration Day after Reading Malcolm X’s “The Ballot or the Bullet” Don’t Mayflower yourself into forgetting that today, once again, your government has wrapped you in a kerosene embrace, has gripped you like a cavalry...
Trump’s War on Dangerous Memory and Critical Thought by Henry A. Giroux March 13, 2017 The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer...
Agua Dulce: Ochun Asleep | Oil on canvas | 19” x 15″ | 2010 (Tatiana Olga Collection) *** José Rodeiro: The Artistic Son of Ybor City A Creative Exchange with Dr. José Rodeiro, prompted by Mike Foldes Florida-born painter José Rodeiro sat down with...
What’s jazz got to do with it? The sun had written the smell of winter on his silent face, while the birds outside his window sang receiving the nightfall; his room was filled with Miles’s jazz: blues and melancholic music keeping company to his inert thighs, the...
“On the Map” Andy Warhol’s Portrait, Digital Art Pablo Caviedes, with a piece of Work in Progress. *** Pablo Caviedes: Magnifying Human Values With Mike Foldes Founder & Managing Editor Q) So, when did you start writing poetry, and by...
How I met Pablo Neruda, Celia Cruz, Trinidad Torregrossa and Benny Moré by George Nelson Preston In my senior year at CCNY I had become deeply interested in the events that were unfolding in Cuba. I joined Fair Play for Cuba. The Fidelistas were ensconced in...
Major Singer In A Minor Key Country Music Awards to Honor Lacy J. Dalton Lacy J. Dalton may be best known as a country singer, but her musical roots go back to growing up in a musical family in Pennsylvania, years in New York City during a decade when Joan...
Musical Molotovs: Burn and Bludgeon By Fred Roberts, Music Editor Wilhelmine Show Me the No No No In time for the January 20 inauguration of America’s 45th president, the venerable Austrian institution Wilhelm Show me the Major Label has pulled off a coup of...
Seth Fogelman, Unsplash *** To Be A Native Linguist “…You don’t have many friends, and you cannot depend on the few you have. You could not return to your parents’ house because nothing grates you more than appearing as a failure before them…. ...
common core cartoon by WWYD? *** The Gaslighting Started before 2017 by Nancy Barno Reynolds In 2010 when the State Standards (CCSS) were rolled out, proponents announced some news that seemed to make sense to anyone who had been in the field of teaching...
EMILY AS A DEER HEART I put my teeth to Emily. I left an identifiable impression there. All crimes committed amidst that mythology will carry my name with them. This season, I hunted so lazily & since I could not take a bite of her with me, I knew that I would...
a A Paschal Pimp Elementary spirits are like children: they torment chiefly those who trouble about them… it is these who frequently occasion our bizarre or disturbing dreams… but they can manifest no thought other than our own… They reproduce good...
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