Finding Myself in Junot Diaz
By Pronoy Sarkar for Off the Shelf I was born in India, came to Los Angeles, California when I was two years old, and wore dresses until I was three. My father was a medical student with little money;...
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48 Hours With Delta Spirit and J.S Bach in NYC With Peter Sellers and the...
(Frank S hanging out back stage with the band Delta Spirit, and with my pals Jesse and Dan Russell.) I was tired, so fucking tired! The night before last I'd been at The Paradise Club in Boston at a...
View ArticleI'm Still Here
I understand that this is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Here is my story. When I was 19 I was swept off my very naïve feet by a funny, talented man who was 27 years older. I cannot access...
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Met Opera: A Fiery and Doomed "Carmen" With Rachvelishvili
Few operas can match Bizet's Carmen for passion, jealousy, revenge, and ultimate tragedy, set to stirring and glorious music, and the Met Opera's sweeping production by Richard Eyre brings it all...
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Personifying Iran in an Art of Dissent, Defiance, and Desire
This commentary on artists from Iran showing in New York was prompted by the exhibition, Portraits: Reflections by Emerging Iranian Artists, curated by Roya Khadjavi Heidari and Massoud Nader and on...
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Australian Ballet's Swan Lake in Los Angeles
Photo by Lisa Tomasetti Tchaikovsky's classic ballet has a triumphal outing in its Los Angeles production featuring the innovative and masterful choreography of Graeme Murphy and inspiring...
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No Ponies Were Harmed in the Creation of This Print
Global Yodel caught up with LA photographer JonPaul Douglass to learn more about his hilarious Pizza in the Wild series. Read on to learn about JonPaul's quest for "Ninja Turtle Pizza," and why he goes...
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Ed Moses: The Lion of Venice Reflects on Maintaining the Fire
Ed Moses, the grand lion of Venice, California, sits in a black chair in his studio gallery slowly rotating, watching as studio assistants move his huge paintings on geometric canvases. These are from...
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Extreme Body Painting Takes Halloween Costumes to a New Level
I veered into the former mall parking lot, where Longmont's mega Halloween pop-up shop usually looms every October. But this year I found a flat stretch of earth, the genesis of much-needed...
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100 Years On: The Forgotten Founder of JPL
Last week, (October 2), marked the 100th birthday of Jack Parsons, a founder of Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Aerojet-Rocketdyne and the inventor of the solid fuel that put man on the moon. In a display...
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A Conversation With Derrick Adams
In September, "Derrick Adams: Live and in Color," opened at the Tilton Gallery in Manhattan. I sat down with Adams in Brooklyn, to talk about his work and career trajectory. We spoke at length, and...
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Dito Reigns Onstage the Count and Martha
Last month, donning a Versailles mini-gown and disco heels, drag vocalist Martha Graham Cracker serenaded the overflowing crowd at the official opening of FringeArts stage and brasserie to open the...
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The Qalandiya International, the second edition of the Palestinian Biennial,...
Young girls at the Women's Activity Centre in Qalandiya playing a game of basketball during the 1950. Courtesy of UNRWA Archive. Vita brevis, arts longa. Perhaps no circumstance better reflects this...
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Bruce Lieberman: "East End" at Gallery North
Painter Bruce Lieberman's exhibition East End is about many of things: among them are his daily life on Long Island, his endless experimentation with paint and his need to "escape" from the pressures...
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No Child Deserves to Be Left Behind
When one examines the hypocrisy inherent in so many heated discussions about birth control, it quickly becomes apparent that conservatives will do everything possible to proclaim and protect the legal...
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Why Words And Abstractions Can Be More Powerful Than Explicit Images
In our busy image culture, Yahoo has estimated that 880 billion photographs will be taken this year. The ability to capture, experience, share, search, and recall photographic imagery (still and...
View ArticleHere's The Real Reason Why That Pop Song Is Stuck In Your Head
What connects Katy Perry with the Biblical book of Ecclesiastes? And, before you ask, no, there's absolutely nothing in Ecclesiastes about kissing a girl. I'm talking about her other great hit "Hot N...
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Is This the Greatest Photographer You've Never Heard Of?
The notion of a groundbreaking photographer first seeing the light of day in a photo studio might sound like something out of an absurdist novel. But that's exactly how, and where, J.R. Eyerman ("J" to...
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Big: The Musical, Reduced
John Tartaglia in Big: The Musical (photo credit: Jenny Anderson) The York Theatre's Musicals in Mufti series--in which old musicals are presented as script-in-hand staged readings with cut-down casts,...
View ArticleNat Hentoff: Jazz, Edward Snowden and the Eternally Radical Idea of Free...
Whether you care about jazz, civil liberties, freedom of speech throughout history, or the First Amendment on campus, be sure to check out this new interview with jazz critic and civil liberties legend...
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