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Stage Door: My Stubborn Tongue
Give it up for Anna Fishbeyn, who manages to turn painful memoir into an insightful, entertaining show. As noted in My Stubborn Tongue now off-Broadway at the New Ohio Theatre, such efforts come at...
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Pocahontas' First Marriage: The Powhatan Side of the Story
By Phoebe Farris As Virginia institutions celebrate the 400th anniversary of the Pocahontas-Rolfe marriage this year, a crucial event in the Commonwealth's venerable self-image, we should recognize...
View ArticleThe Hollywood Blacklist in Exile
Stories of the Hollywood blacklist of the 1940s and '50s are, by now, well known. Many books, articles and documentaries exist about the lives of actors, screenwriters and directors who the studios...
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'No Exit,' Long Beach Playhouse Studio Theatre, Long Beach, CA
It takes place in a small room. No windows, no mirrors, no way out. Uptown Estelle (Genevieve Simon) is attracted to Garcin (Anthony B. Cohen). Inez (Natalie Beisner) is attracted to Estelle. Garcin...
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It's About The Music, Stupid!
Back in 1992, when Bill Clinton was running for President, James Carville coined what would become the Clinton campaign's motto: "It's the economy, stupid!" That statement was so simple, so easily able...
View ArticleA Trip to the MUNY
It is easy to get depressed about the future of the arts in America when one reads countless stories of arts institutions facing large deficits, lockouts and strikes, and even closure. Conventional...
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Tracey Adams: 'Everything in My Life Is Interconnected'
Artist Tracey Adams, who currently has a solo show on view at the Bryant Street Gallery in Palo Alto, draws her ideas and inspirations from a wide variety of fields including music, mathematics and...
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Wake Up and Face the Music, Chicago
In the wake of the Fourth of July holiday weekend in Chicago, where 82 people were shot in an 84-hour window, Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced Wednesday that Forty Illinois State Police troopers will work...
View ArticleUncovering Meaning Through Puzzles and Art
Click here to watch the TEDTalk that inspired this post. There's a tagline for a brand of malt liquor from the 1980's and if it seems a little out of place, it's there to make a point; that is,...
View ArticleTrumpeter Sean Jones Excels on His Latest Im.pro.vise
Trumpeter Sean Jones was a featured voice on Nancy Wilson's Grammy award-winning album, Turned to Blue, from 2006. Since then he has been associated with Wynton Marsalis' Jazz at Lincoln Center...
View ArticleCreativity Isn't Free
At a Silicon Beach conference recently there was a panel about YouTube celebrity: how to grow your following, how to keep it, how to make the analytics of that video platform bend to your will. Five...
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Why You Need Painting to Say That Painting Is Dead
Marc Trujillo '14114 Vanowen Street' 42 x 74 inches oil on polyester over aluminum. I'm a painter, so of course I find statements about the death of painting annoying, but also sloppy thinking, since...
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24-Hour Party People: The New Aspen Art Museum
This past Saturday, VIPs got a first glimpse of the new home of Aspen Art Museum (AAM), a building designed by Pritzker Prize winning starchitect, Shigeru Ban. The new museum meshes architecture with...
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Trey McIntyre Project's Farewell at Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival
This summer at Jacob's Pillow marked Trey McIntyre Project's last performances as a professional dance company before Trey moves on to other projects. I've photographed the dance company before, and...
View ArticleWriting Your First Novel: Five Fundamentals for Your Path to the Pulitzer
Autumn is the season when word processors develop twitches in keyboards. Writers emerge from summers abroad, agents hunger for a new voice, publishers finally release the hidden gems that will save...
View ArticleGrowing Up Zora: What Literature Can Teach You About Home
By Meg Miller Off the Shelf Last weekend I went home for a visit. I'm from Roanoke, Virginia, a midsized city in the southwestern part of the state that's surrounded by the Blue Ridge Mountains on all...
View ArticleRobin Williams and the Generations That Grew With Him
I was finishing a run in the park when I heard the news. An old man walking his Schnauzer yelled to a couple of grey-haired gentlemen sitting on a bench, picking through the day's Times. I'd seen these...
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If it Walks Like a Goose and it Talks Like a Goose
I've always loved the saying: 'If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, then it probably is a duck.' Because nothing can argue with that, can it? Elaborating on this idea, one could argue, that...
View ArticleChelsea's Legendary Alan's Alley Video Reopens... Here's Why It Matters
After 26 years in business, West Chelsea's legendary Alan's Alley Video on 9th avenue between 22nd and 23rd closed on July 15. Most of Chelsea's local businesses have shuttered for good since the High...
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