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make work for yourself do something i just thought i had an idea a while back (up to 8 months in the past) a short video of about 20 minutes maybe could take longer a live stream a screen capture...
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Skin Hunger: On Dangerous Touch
“Hands,” Leonardo Rizzi, Creative Commons When I attended Mass Before, the priest told us a few things: 1) If we were taking Communion, we could not allow the officiants to place the Host on our...
View ArticleNo Touring the Provinces in This Plague: An Interview with Julie Jensen
How has the pandemic has changed theater, aside from the obvious fact that live audiences are currently forbidden? At this point it’s impossible for plays to rehearse. People cannot gather in groups....
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And the Stars Were Shining
Castel Sant’Angelo, Rome A few years ago I discovered the Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD and the Royal Opera House’s Live Cinema Season programs, which revolutionized my enjoyment of opera. Since this...
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Sullen Girl: Fiona Apple and the Prism of Female Fragility
I. You fondle my trigger then you blame my gun It is difficult to discuss Fiona’s craft without also discussing the unrelenting interest in her trauma, her mental illness, her relationship to men. Our...
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THE NEW COMICS: Nick Earhart, “Colognes”
NICK EARHART lives in Pasadena, California, near Allendale Park. He is writing a dissertation on art, infrastructure, and urban space, and he also likes to draw and play guitar. More of his comics...
View Article“As If It Were Part of Breathing”: An Interview with Theatre Artist Leigh...
Film and television dominate the arts in Los Angeles, but L.A. has a thriving theatre culture that hasn’t received the attention the New York stage commands. Even during the pandemic, local theatre...
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Cold Light
Cold Light (detail): site-specific installation, hand-cut wallpaper, video by Summer J. Hart. Image courtesy of the artist, used by permission. Confined to my Bermuda home thanks to a deadly microbe,...
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Tears, and More Tears: Toward a Theory of the Crime-Show Mom
Character Mitch Larsen, “The Killing” Sunday evenings in high school, I attended youth services at a local evangelical church. One Sunday, I tagged along on a post-worship excursion to the McDonald’s...
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Portals to Heaven
Byodin Temple, Kyoto, Japan 1. Like a giant bird with nimble wings outstretched to catch the wind, the vermilion temple seemed to hover just above the surface of the water. I had never seen anything...
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THE NEW COMICS: Four by Nick
NICK EARHART lives in Pasadena, California, near Allendale Park. He is writing a dissertation on art, infrastructure, and urban space, and he also likes to draw and play guitar. Want to be...
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On Crafting Stories without Commas: Today’s Artisanal Writers
scarf by Amy Sarig King The question before us is bread. The fluff of the flour and the crystals of salt. The warm-water yeast and the well into which she pours it. Her hands are sticky with the wet,...
View ArticleBand of Outsiders: impressions of crime
film still from Jean-Luc Godard’s Band of Outsiders If films—as many have pointed out before—are an approximate for dreams, then Band of Outsiders is a dream in which the figures within are aware that...
View ArticleHer Room. Ours.
She wants to move. He doesn’t. She wants the rhythms of the city, the accidents of observation, her husband’s faith that she can be well in a less self-preserving, routine-contriving place. Hogarth...
View ArticleWATCHING ‘WOJNAROWICZ’ AS A DAUGHTER OF THE EAST VILLAGE ART SCENE
I was initially interested in the new documentary, Wojnarowicz, for the glimpse it promised into the 1980s East Village art scene–a time and place that holds great curiosity and sentimentality for me....
View ArticleWhat the Sun Can’t Heal: Review of Blood Memory by Gail Newman
The strong and steadfast Los Angeles sun no doubt has restorative powers. Well-being emanates from its bright light, an outdoor lifestyle is perennially uplifting; flowers, fruit and trees thrive in...
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Where Suffering is the Rule: SINGA’s Performance Installation, The Open Heart
photo credit:SIGNA/goldmann Imagine an association of people moved to shelter and care for those, whose pain prevents them from functioning normally in society, who then use their charges to study...
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Final Fantasy: A Reflection on Free Fall from the Heart of America’s Pandemic
I can’t stop remembering an incident with a middle school bully named Amanda Barba. We were 12 years old. “You shouldn’t speak to me like that you little faggot. Are you going to cry little faggot?...
View ArticleA 500th Anniversary Commemoration of Renaissance Composer, Josquin des Prez,...
In the Western European Renaissance, the retrieval of antiquity and fulfillment in life became desirable goals, and it is in the music of Josquin des Prez in which these ideals can be heard. The free...
View ArticleCulture Shifts: Urban growth, Decay and Art in the Post-Industrial City
Birkenhead was built around a shipyard, Cammell Laird. When I was nine years old it closed down. Our school was taken to the yard as the last submarine built there was launched. As we waved our little...
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