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Documentary Film, "The Poet and the Con"
It took me seven years to make my documentary film, "The Poet and the Con", a "personal voice" autobiographical movie about my relationship with my uncle, Harvey Rosenberg, a career criminal who spent...
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The Cloisters: Escape the City in the City
Summer heat, paired with the type of oppressive humidity found only in large metropolitan areas, is never an enjoyable experience. The streets turn sticky and stifling, and subway platforms take on...
View ArticleHappy 83rd, Ramblin' Jack
Raise what you're drinking to the last cowboy. The last of the rail-riding poets. Ramblin' Jack Elliot -- the living link between Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan -- celebrated his 83rd this weekend. Happy...
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Organs Without Bodies: A Conversation With Jaša
Jaša with Etan Nechin. All photos by Rosa Lux. ACT 1 Two people are sitting at the Pioneer Works art space, facing each other in front of two conjoined pianos. Above them, like a beacon, a mysterious...
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Stage Door: Strictly Dishonorable
A speakeasy, class confrontation, mismatched lovers and a romantic opera singer set the stage for an early Preston Sturges comedy. The king of movie screwballs, Sturges' 1929 Strictly Dishonorable,...
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Melting Ice Pops Become Psychedelic Art
These melted summer treats, part of Michael Massaia's new "Transmogrify" photography series, may be heart-wrenching reminders of that dreadful moment as a child where your ice cream slips from your...
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The Lithgow Lear
John Lithgow in the Shakespeare in the Park production of King Lear. Photo credit: Joan Marcus Put Daniel Sullivan (director of two Pulitzer winners, Proof and Rabbit Hole) together with a great play...
View Article7 Reasons Why Boredom Is Good For You
To rework an old Jean-Paul Sartre line: If you're bored when you're alone, you're in bad company. Boredom itself isn't a sign that you need some distraction; it's a sign that you've grown addicted to...
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Poetry As Tribute: Erasing David Foster Wallace's 'Infinite Jest'
We are all erased. All lives end eventually, whether at the hands of time or illness, intention or accident. What's left in their stead, however, is never a complete absence. Family, friends and...
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A New Muralism Growing: Spotlight On Jersey City And "Savage Habbit"
An important part of the Street Art ecosystem is the mural and right now we are in the midst of a mural revolution in neighborhoods, towns and cities everywhere. These are not your mom's mural...
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Worship at the Temple of Art
There are freedoms and challenges in life that are unique to creative people. Aside from navigating the basic human roller coaster, a life in art can involve extra fun ranging from the financial, to...
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Small Islands, Big Music: Report From the AME at Cabo Verde
For 20 years, the World Music Expo (WOMEX) has been the premiere European destination for targeted world music marketing. But realizing that the concept needs to go truly global WOMEX has been teaming...
View ArticleAn American Romeo and Juliet
A third generation New Yorker, Lower East Side gallerist Sasha Wolf has curated an exhibit of photographs loosely illustrating Romeo and Juliet. She says she is direct, honest and straight-forward,...
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Tried Being a Bride
Who would do such a thing? Spend months planning a picture-perfect wedding, only to leave her groom, cold, on the steps of the altar, after a speech announcing to the congregation why she did it? That...
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The Dominant Medium: Television
The average American watches four hours and 19 minutes of television daily, according to Neilsen.com. What's that? You've been meaning to catch up on Mad Men, Breaking Bad and House of Cards but you...
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Something Wonderful in Denmark: Hamlet at the UN
As far as Security Council presidencies go, British Ambassador Mark Lyall Grant began his stint with a splash - a live performance of the Globe Theatre's Hamlet to an enthusiastic crowd at the United...
View ArticleCrystal Bridges Exhibition to Include Kansas and Missouri Artists
Logging over 100,000 miles, and visiting with 1,000 artists, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas announced their selection of 102 artists for State of the Art: Discovering...
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Sometimes, Street Photography Is About Having Faith
Mike Hicks had just driven 1,700 miles cross country, including several hours through the West Texas badlands, a bleak, unforgiving stretch of highway that's somewhere between nowhere and forever....
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Streamsong Resort: Golf and Literature, Bass and Alligators
First of all, there are the books. A clue to the attention to detail in guest rooms at Streamsong Resort in central Florida's Bone Valley, their titles read like a Who's Who of American literature. On...
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Looking Behind the Common Sense Elements of City Life
Introduction Last month, in Moustiers Sainte Marie, France, I watched several shopkeepers return a lost young bird to a part of town closer to its natural habitat. This small drama was a play of few...
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