The Caduceus & the Rhea Sisters

The Caduceus & the Rhea Sisters

  The Caduceus and the Rhea Sisters   by Arthur Allen 1988 In 1928-1929 a Medical-Dental Building was constructed at the corner of Georgia and Hornby Streets in Vancouver. It featured statues of three tall nurses, made of terra- cotta, {fired and glazed...
The Ghost of Berry Creek/Environment

The Ghost of Berry Creek/Environment

    The Ghost of Berry Creek     by Richard LeBlond Contributor   A botanist by trade, I have never lost my love of exploring new habitat and learning new species. So I talked the Forest Service into letting me conduct a small survey on its land in the Great Basin...
Charlie Einhorn, In Memoriam

Charlie Einhorn, In Memoriam

In Memoriam “Charlie” Einhorn, 76 Charlie Einhorn’s contributions to the Columbus, Ohio, creative community cannot be overstated. From the early 1970s on Pearl Alley at Charlie’s Guitar, to the later street scenes of Hot Times, and more, his was a constant presence in...
Steve Poleskie/Then and Now

Steve Poleskie/Then and Now

Me, Mom, and Meritocracy   Stephen Poleskie Columnist There has been a lot of coverage in the media recently about parents who will do anything it takes, legal or not, to get their child into a top ranked school. I must confess that many years ago my mother used...
Roger Brooks/American Real — Interview

Roger Brooks/American Real — Interview

    Seeking Ultimate Fulfillment Getting real with Roger Brooks, founder of American Real   With Mike Foldes Managing Editor Roger, thanks for agreeing to an e-interview with Ragazine. I was introduced to the site during a conversation on a First Friday...

Baseball Fans Need to be Civil

Baseball Fans’ Behavior Strikes Out The following short essay was written several years ago… but bears a lesson worth repeating.  The Yankees’ loss Wednesday night to the Boston Red Sox was humiliating, but not nearly as humiliating as the behavior of the...

Songs for Ingrid

      Songs for Ingrid   Selected by Fred Roberts Music Editor     Category: Don’t tell Ingrids to smile Song Title: Ingrid Won’t Smile Artist: Milk White White Teeth Year: 2010 Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DgpsLumrms  ...
From the “The APNEA Poems”, by Bill Yarrow

From the “The APNEA Poems”, by Bill Yarrow

    The following selection is from the collection, “THE APNEA POEMS,” by Bill Yarrow.    EYES OFF THE ROAD One by one I lost my desires.  Dirty ambition left first. Knowledge raged but then it cooled.  Riches never had the hook very deep. ...
Hiroshi Hayakawa/ Artist Spotlight

Hiroshi Hayakawa/ Artist Spotlight

Vanitas-2 Graphite on Bristol board  |  20”x 26” | 2014 Artist Spotlight van·i·tas/ˈvanəˌtäs/noun”Vanitas, (Latin: , “vanity”) in art, a genre of still-life paintings that flourished in the Netherlands in the early 17th century. A vanitas painting contains...
Brian Cullman on W. S. Merwin

Brian Cullman on W. S. Merwin

  W. S. Merwin: In memoriam   by Brian Cullman Contributing Writer   My parents had dinner with Robert Frost once. They said he stared at his lamb chops angrily, stopped, fixed his eyes on them, and then turned his attention back to his plate. And though it...

Graciela Iturbide: 50 Years of Photography

    Throckmorton Fine Art (www.throckmorton-nyc.com) has announced an important exhibition of photographs created over the past half century by the world renowned Mexican photographic artist, Graciela Iturbide. FIFTY YEARS OF PHOTOGRAPHIC TREASURES celebrates...
The Hunt for Emmanuel Macron/by Fabia Wong

The Hunt for Emmanuel Macron/by Fabia Wong

Photo by Randy Colas on Unsplash *** The hunt for Emmanuel Macron: What happens when the press and public become locked in a feedback loop of extremism     by Fabia Chenivesse-Wong Contributing Writer In May 2017, Emmanuel Macron was elected as President of...

Lucinda Watson/Poetry

MURMURATION “A rare gathering of starlings that looks like dancing clouds” passed over my head this morning like a shiver in a graveyard. Murmuration The sky darkened, my dogs slowed their pace, and I still struggled to hold up the dike against the flood of winter. My...

Jim Palombo/Politics

  FOR THE RECORD   by J. Palombo Columnist Over the past ten years I’ve been the Politics Editor for Ragazine, writing articles on a wide range of political, economic and social issues. An important theme running through many of the pieces, fueled by my four...

Joe Weil/Poetry

  The flowers offend me because they are filthy– their roots scraggly with dirt And the sky offends me because it is bigger than I and how  dare that sky dwarf me? And you offend me because… well just because. I think you like flowers I think you like the...