Cynthia Karalla / Photographer

Cynthia Karalla / Photographer

© Cynthia Karalla Central Park, NYC     Experimental Photography: aaaa Experiencing a State of Mind by Richard Rabel   Experimental contemporary photographer Cynthia Karalla, influenced by Eugene Atget (1857-1927) and his photos of the trees around...
Galanty’s Re-Tweets

Galanty’s Re-Tweets

AAA AAA Bright Lights in a Dark Universe AAA and other passing thoughts AAA     If I could have dinner with any three people, living or dead, I’d prefer to do it living./ I try to take a lot of wind & solar naps because I support alternative forms of...
Karen Fayeth/Fiction

Karen Fayeth/Fiction

  The Seal     by Karen Fayeth     Amid the noise of family chatter around the dinner table, Sakari ate quietly and took small bites while her little brother, Nattiq, scooped mounds of fermented fish into his face. “Slow down,” she quietly...
Chelsea Horne/Desperate Times in Argentina

Chelsea Horne/Desperate Times in Argentina

The Basilica Nuestra Señora Del Pilar (The Basilica of Our Lady of the Pillar). To the left is ‘El Gran Gomero’; at over 200 years old, it is the oldest tree in the Buenos Aires.   Argentines Under Siege   by Chelsea L. Horne   When you think of...
Casual Observer/Mark Levy

Casual Observer/Mark Levy

The Ten Commandments by DrGBB *** *** Don’t Do This (and That) AAA The Bible Tells Us So … AAAAAAA by Mark Levy Contributing Columnist   We all know and some of us follow, more or less, the . But did you know the Old Testament actually includes 613...
On Location/France

On Location/France

© ANNE BARLINCHKOFF Images , used with permission In the Name of Love   by Jean-Paul Gavard-Perrett Contributing Columnist With translations by Helene Gaillet de Neergaard     Often barefooted, Anne Barlinckoff’s models remain elegant, soft...
Poison Friends/Video Review

Poison Friends/Video Review

   A Continuing Influence       “Poison Friends” (Les amitiés maléfiques) Movie Review 2007 French with English Sub-Titles 100 minutes Director: Emmanuel Bourdieu     by M. Sedlof   We recently lost an old friend. Old in years but...
Stephen Poleskie/Then and Now

Stephen Poleskie/Then and Now

UFO article on the front page of the Berkeley Gazette *** *** My UFO Sightings     By Stephen Poleskie    My previous article, about a ghost I met while I was staying in the Palazzo Massimo in Rome, received quite a number of comments. You say you read...

Lyn Lifshin/Poetry

Three Poems   APRIL, PARIS     Nothing would be less shall we call it what it is, a cliché than April in Paris. But this poem got started with some thing I don’t think I could do but it reminded me of Aprils and then three magazines came with Paris on...
Laurie King-Billman/Creative Nonfiction

Laurie King-Billman/Creative Nonfiction

Navajo country – summer 2000 – Patrick Nouhailler © byNouhailler Sailing Past Shiprock by Laurie King-Billman   “This part of 666 creeps me out,” Martha said. We were nearing the border between Ute and Navajo country, Colorado and New Mexico. No cars,...
David Williams/Poetry

David Williams/Poetry

 Two Poems   Loving Backwards   “Me me me” is what Dad says, “me is all you think about and you are selfish.” I forget what I did. Dad works hard all the time. I always say I’m sorry. Then I am sorry.   He does not have time to throw ball and run....
Fred Skolnik / A Freudian Analysis

Fred Skolnik / A Freudian Analysis

Dreaming by Agnes_F *** The Art of Dreaming     by Fred Skolnik When it comes to dreams, I am a Freudian. Ten thousand hours of “scientific” experiments on sleeping volunteers to tell us in which part of the night we dream most intensely is just...
Jim Palombo/Politics

Jim Palombo/Politics

xxx xx Happy Campaign Trails to You… xxx Although they can stand alone, here are two pieces linked to each other in several ways. Keep in mind as you read them that there have been a variety of previous Ragazine articles by this author that speak to the concerns being...
Kristina Jung, Rostock 2 / Infant Thoughts

Kristina Jung, Rostock 2 / Infant Thoughts

Kristina Jung. Photo by Linda Marx ***   *** Requiem for Rostock     Kristina Jung is a reincarnation of the 1960s folk spirit. That’s what I think of when I hear her sing, and recall songs by Mimi Fariña and Peter, Paul and Mary. Kristina is from...

We Are You Project @ Kean Univ.

A AA AAA The We Are Your Project: AAA “An Exhibition on Social Justice & Immigration”   Kean University’s The Human Rights Institute presents The We Are You Project, a comprehensive coast-to-coast depiction of 21st Century Latino socio-cultural,...