Charles Edward Brooks/Fiction

FORTY WHACKS   by Charles Edward Brooks My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps,  drums and tambours I sound and clash inside myself. All I hear is the symphony. —Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet  ...
Galanty Miller/ReTweets

Galanty Miller/ReTweets

  by Galanty Miller Contributing Columnist I try to take a lot of wind & solar naps because I support alternative forms of sluggishness./ Women think ‘vulnerability’ is sexy, so when I meet women at parties, I always cry./ I hate fuzzy fruit. But I’ll fight...
Eleonore Nitzschke Interview

Eleonore Nitzschke Interview

Photo by jensjunge (Pixabay) United Nations plaza, NYC.   The Architect’s Granddaughter Eleonore Nitzschke, granddaughter of Oscar Nitzschké,  discusses her dream of archiving the legendary architect’s drawings, papers & memorabilia  ...
Bill Dixon/From the Edge

Bill Dixon/From the Edge

Dustin Lee photo *** Hey, Teacher! by Bill Dixon Contributing Columnist It was Spring Quarter, 1970. After seven long academic years at The Ohio State University, attending classes only when I could afford to pay cash for my books and tuition up front, and busting my...
Andrea, O’Reilly Herrera/Art Review

Andrea, O’Reilly Herrera/Art Review

Viva Ramona, by Christie Devereaux   Grupo Neo-Latino: Reaching Critical Mass   by Dr. Andrea O’Reilly Herrera According to the Census Bureau, the minority and bi-racial/bi-ethnic population in the U.S. is expected to rise to 56 percent of the total...
Fall Fundraiser

Fall Fundraiser

© Maggie Hopp Photo, Plains, Georgia  *** Fall Fundraiser Planting seeds to keep the zine growing …   Thanks to everyone who contributed to our Summer Fundraiser. Unfortunately, we seem to have done our outreach when most everyone was at the beach. With...
Joel Nsadha / Photographer

Joel Nsadha / Photographer

© Joel Nsadha Bwengye lives in a slum called Kamwokya in Kampala, Uganda’s capital city. He cherishes his bicycle more than anything and brings it to this playground in the slum every evening, where he watches kids playing soccer. The image won first place in...
Ginger Liu/On Location – LA

Ginger Liu/On Location – LA

© Cindy Sherman/Courtesy of the artist and Metro Pictures Cindy Sherman | Untitled #92, 1981 | Chromogenic color print | 24 x 48 inches *** Interview: Philipp Kaiser – Guest Curator Cindy Sherman: Imitation of Life … at The Broad   With Ginger Liu...
Fred Roberts/Music

Fred Roberts/Music

Crystin Moritz photo *** The Brilliant Dilettantes: Modern experiments in Art & Music    Introduction One often hears the deliberately misspelled term “geniale Dilletanten” in Germany used to describe a performance that floats in the realm between...
Michael Netter/Artist Spotlight

Michael Netter/Artist Spotlight

Hats in the Air | 2016 | Acrylic and spray enamel on canvas | 32 x 50 in. (81.3 x 127 cm) *** “…paying homage to higher powers.”   “Looking at my work I have been most curious about the subjective and illusory nature of messages, narratives and...
Mike Foldes/Laura Guese-Artist Interview

Mike Foldes/Laura Guese-Artist Interview

© Laura Guese Castles in the Sky | Oil on watercolor paper | 22 x 30  *** Castles in the Sky   “Many of my paintings contain building thunderheads viewed at higher atmospheric levels, surreal and fortress-like. My work embodies the concept of ‘castles...
Fred Roberts/Musical Decalogue

Fred Roberts/Musical Decalogue

Leonard Roberts Photo  Tip of the Iceberg in a Digital Sea Ten Releases You Really Ought to Hear by Fred Roberts Contributing Music Editor Writing about music tears me apart, because I learn about so many artists that deserve to be known, yet I am extremely limited as...
Ann Cefola/Cindy Hochman-Editor Interview

Ann Cefola/Cindy Hochman-Editor Interview

    How to Save Your Manuscript Before It Leaves Your Laptop: An Interview with Cindy Hochman   by Ann Cefola Cindy Hochman peers over a manuscript. On the first page, she has already discovered a typo, a punctuation error, and a malaprop. She feels a...

Donovan Borger/Poetry

Festival Through the earthworm scent of fresh-broken sod plowed in a wide ring where the city’s walls would go, families gathered to see the settlement founded by the boy to whom a wolf gave her milk, the man who killed his brother with a shovel to see Rome built....
Henry A. Giroux/Commentary

Henry A. Giroux/Commentary

Scott Webb photo Why Teachers Matter in Dark Times   by Henry A. Giroux Americans live in a historical moment that annihilates thought. Ignorance now provides a sense of community; the brain has migrated to the dark pit of the spectacle; the only discourse that...