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Sometimes 'No' Can Be the Best Answer to Get: Here's Why
No. It is a word that every person confronts. Absolutely everyone -- CEOs, entrepreneurs, artists, celebrities, even the president -- gets "no" for an answer. And it is a word that most people --...
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The Power and the Roar - Joe Strummer's Car
Bands have a tendency to implode, particularly after mega success. It took five years for the furore surrounding The Clash, the quintessential English punk band that married rebellion and rock &...
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Christine Weir: Life on Earth
Analysis of graphite drawings rarely contains observations on texture or any mention of impasto -- such qualities are the province of painting. But the first of many surprises in the work of Christine...
View ArticleThe Greatest Holocaust Story Never Told
Giving Back the Names of Four Women Ala Gertner, Róża Robota, Regina Szafirsztajn and Estera Wajcblum. Have you ever heard of these women? I'm sure you could rattle off each Kardashian, or the name of...
View ArticleYentl, the Yeshiva Boy: A Modern Transgender Hero
There is one Jewish short story (later made into a play and a film) to which I can very intimately relate. It's Isaac Bashevis Singer's Yentl, the Yeshiva Boy. I had the pleasure of attending an...
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Ode: To All Of It
He was like a guardian unto me. His grey fedora the rim of my world, smiling down all around me, bobbing up down on his fat knees. He was a dancer actually, and quite a good one at that too. He was...
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You Can't Take It With You: A Child's View
As a kid, I used to bring home the plays of Kaufman and Hart from the local library and read them aloud with my little sister and my little brother, Elisa and Mark, on long Saturday afternoons. I...
View ArticleThe Intense World of Flamenco in Southern Spain (Video)
It has been a dream of mine for years to go to Southern Spain to experience Flamenco. Growing up with the Gypsy Kings and hearing the music along my travels, there was something about the art form that...
View ArticleDennis McNally Revisits Highway 61 (and Beyond)
Thirty-five years ago, a young American History PhD student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst converted his dissertation on Jack Kerouac into the book, Desolate Angel: Jack Kerouac, The Beat...
View ArticleBerne, Baby, Berne
Review of The Copyright Wars: Three Centuries of Trans-Atlantic Battle. By Peter Baldwin. Princeton University Press. 535 pp. $35. In 1989, the United States joined the Berne Convention for the...
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A Question of Purpose - with Bob Nickas
Should everything an artist makes be considered as Art? Or does it require the artist to declare it as art before it is made precious? I have been thinking about this question a lot lately. I am...
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Improving Your Photography by Taking Fewer Photographs
I often get asked for tips on how to become a better photographer. The majority asking are parents who want to take better pictures of their own children. Others just seem hungry for a quick fix. While...
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Photographing The Road Ahead With John Hornbeck
All Images Copyright John Hornbeck I've always liked the photographs of John Hornbeck. His obvious connection to the school of Moriyama and Nakahira mean that his work exhibits grit, grain, and high...
View ArticleTheater: Rufus And Robert Tackle Will; "When January Feels Like Summer"
SHAKESPEARE'S SONNETS *** out of **** WHEN JANUARY FEELS LIKE SUMMER ** 1/2 out of **** SHAKESPEARE'S SONNETS *** out of **** BAM What to do when reviewing theater? Do you scribble notes throughout...
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Christopher Isherwood Returns to Berlin
This adventure began over dinner. Don Bachardy, the artist and partner of the late Christopher Isherwood, was in Sacramento, California for a screening at the Crocker Art Museum of Chris and Don: A...
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From Bettie Page to Dita Von Teese and Katy Perry, Pin-up Rules again from...
The retro pin-up look from the 1940s and 1950s, which was popularized by the likes of Jane Russell, Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield, and pin-up icon Bettie Page, is increasingly being seen everywhere...
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Robert Wilson's Shakespearean "Cabaret"
The Brooklyn Academy of Music and Robert Wilson have had a long and storied history. The cross pollination has been benefit to both. Wilson's particular brand of modernism, a mixture of dance and...
View ArticleBig White Face
Song performed with Arduino http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/38176 Big White Face from Jasmina Tesanovic on Vimeo.
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The Nathan Lane Show
Rupert Grint, Micah Stock, Stockard Channing, Matthew Broderick, F Murray Abraham, Nathan Lane and Megan Mullally in It's Only a Play. Photo: F. Scott Schafer You will not likely find anything funnier...
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Beware Your Fantasy: It Might Just Come True!
Who among us doesn't like a good story? When friends ask me to identify a favorite movie, I often cite 1987's The Princess Bride for its magnificent cast, wealth of imagination, storytelling craft,...
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