Michael Jantzen/Art & Architecture

Michael Jantzen/Art & Architecture

* * The Interactive Sliced House   “If I have the time, I usually develop an idea at least to the model stage very fast, a few days at most!  I usually have two or three projects going at once and they often feed on each other and sometimes directly affect...
On Location/France

On Location/France

Zentrum Paul Klee (ZPK), Bern, Switzerland, houses the world’s largest collection of the work of artist Paul Klee. Designed by Italian architect  Renzo Piano, its form and function provides a space “in which the encounter with art becomes reality.”  ...

Miriam O’Neal/Poetry

  One Reading of the Contraband of the Hoopoe     requires a suspension of disbelief, new, unpredictable logic, journeys, tones of bells, strings, and drums, bodies frozen, bodies in motion, many birds, always the hoopoe   sometimes the editorial...

Cheyenne Dorsagno/Poetry

People I Knew   1   When I first met you, your shirt was striped – fat purple, thin black, medium pink, white too! No pattern, varying thicknesses. “I like your shirt,” I said. That was a lie.   You said there was a dead body buried in your front yard...
Tonya K. Dale/Creative Nonfiction

Tonya K. Dale/Creative Nonfiction

Photo by 916237 (Pixabay) * * A GOOD DECISION   by Tonya K. Dale     I know why the dog next door cries at night.   He’s the black-and-white mutt, the shaggy prisoner of a fenced-in portico…four feet by four feet. Cement floor.   No one is...

Alec Dawson / Photographer Interview

© Alec Dawson Scene from Nobody Claps Anymore series.   From Start to Finish   An interview with Alec Dawson by Chuck Haupt Ragazine Photo Editor   Q: How or when did you get serious about photography?   A: I started doing photography in...
On Location / London

On Location / London

* * The 9th Annual International London Burlesque Festival 2015   Interview with festival founder Chaz Royal * * *     by Ginger Liu   In its 9th year, the London Burlesque Festival dares to be the biggest burlesque festival on the planet with a...
David Aschkenas / Photographer

David Aschkenas / Photographer

©2015 David Aschkenas * Hospital   The photographs in this short series came about due to an unexpected stay in the hospital by my wife.  She entered the emergency room with a sharp abdominal pain, diagnosed after many tests and scans as gallstones.  One of the...
Mark Levy/Casual Observer

Mark Levy/Casual Observer

Examination room via photopin (license) * * Medical Abbreviations by Mark Levy * I’ve been spending time in my doctor’s office lately, not because I’m sick or injured, but because I’m one of the few patients of his who’s insured. See, he’s got two kids in college and...

Peter Krok/Poetry

    Looking For His Mind     How many times did he tell himself, “This too shall pass?” How many times did he fall into darkness where his glasses did no good? He keeps falling, heavy with questions. The Master asks, “Where are...
CUBA/Politics-Interview

CUBA/Politics-Interview

 DonkeyHotey  Caricature of Barack Obama – Enjoying a Cuban   More on the U.S. and Cuba – A Conversation * * * Keith Bolender and Jim Palombo      * * * In keeping with the interests referenced elsewhere in this edition regarding U.S. and...
Paris Photo LA 2015/On Location

Paris Photo LA 2015/On Location

Paramount Pictures Studios, home to Paris Photo      Sound & Vision * * * Interview with Paris Photo Los Angeles Sound and Vision Curators Douglas Fogle and Hanneke Skerath * * *      by Ginger Liu   In its third year, Paris Photo Los...
Tscherwonez / Music & Film

Tscherwonez / Music & Film

*   ******* Trailer | German film Tscherwonez (1982) Watch Tscherwonez in Entertainment  |  View More Videos at Veoh.com * Tscherwonez (1982)   by Fred Roberts Music Editor     Imagine discovering an unknown film from 1982 with a soundtrack by Devo...
BOOK REVIEWS

BOOK REVIEWS

Photo by Hermann (Pixabay) * * Book Review Editor/Alan Britt                     Gabriel: A Poem by Edward Hirsch Knopf, 2014 Poetry (Longlisted for the National Book Award) Hardcover: 96 pages ISBN # 978-0385353571  ...
DIRT/Fiction

DIRT/Fiction

Dirty Hand by LeMast   * Dirt   “There is no such thing as absolute dirt: it exists in the eye of the beholder.” Mary Douglas   By Peter Wortsman   “Dirt is the Devil’s diversion!” Miss McBride told us with a voice shrill as chalk on the blackboard...