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Poem: Sap Season
Image credit: Yukari Kaihori Sap Season All the love you will ever feel you have always carried within you The pellet you think love is blooms into stone, into flame, into glass You fed it when you...
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Alice - The New Opera
"Dodgson himself wrote that he imagined his work as musical theater -- an "operetta"." - Gary Bachlund Johnny Depp and Mia Wasikowska are scheduled to reprise their roles as the Mad Hatter and Alice,...
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OTP's Guide to Street Art: Poland
By Anna Starostinetskaya While it may be better known for pierogies, Poland is also making a big drunk ruckus on the street art scene. Photo by: Monika Kostera All around the drabbest parts of Poland,...
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Live from the Sundance Film Festival: Sunday, Jan. 19
Of the five films I saw at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival on Sunday, three of them had gay themes or content. That's one way to protest Utah's ongoing battle against marriage equality. Not that I...
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Joe Swanberg's Happy Christmas at Sundance
After watching Joe Swanberg's HAPPY CHRISTMAS, my first thought was "I wish that had been directed by a woman." The film tackled complicated issues specific to the female experience, it would launch a...
View ArticlePortraying Martin Luther King, Jr. on Film
Actor Robert Guillaume played the role of Martin Luther King, Jr. in the 1985 film "Prince Jack." A man who only lived 39 years, but had such a profound impact on so many lives, is not someone one can...
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On The Streets - The Freshest Global Street Art - 17 January 2014
Middle of January gave us fewer but more colourful and vibrant walls and here is what caught our eye this week. Leading off is French artist Seth Globepainter with a signature mural in Phnom Penh,...
View ArticleFirst Nighter: The Public Theater's Under the Radar Plusses and Minuses
Here's a report on a few of the Public Theater's just-concluded Under the Radar Festival beneficences. The annual event -- this is the 10th year -- is supposed to focus on the new and experimental....
View ArticleAs an Actor, Bringing the Spirit of Martin Luther King, Jr. to Life
LeVar Burton played Martin Luther King, Jr. in the 2001 film "Ali." The first time I was cast to portray Dr. Martin Luther King was in a school play. The role was little more than a cameo at the end of...
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Big Doings in Van Gogh's Beloved Brabant
Key Early Masterpieces Return to the Artist's Home Province -- And More. "There will always be something of the Brabant fields and heath in us I hope... " -- Vincent van Gogh in a letter to his brother...
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British Underground Music by Way of Austin
For fans of the UK underground music scene, Mark Stoney is a familiar name. He's known for his distinctive songwriting talent of the critically acclaimed and somewhat enigmatic multi-instrumentalist...
View ArticleSan Francisco's Arion Press: Fine Books, Great Artwork and Good Talk
Here in San Francisco, we've got any number of iconic sites and sights. The Golden Gate Bridge. Lombard, "The crookedest street in the world." Coit Tower, and those little cable cars -- each highly...
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New Orleans: The Day The Music (Nearly) Died
Though New Orleans is an amazing city, and though all of the musicians that I know here love the place, we are not without our troubles. Sure, we play Swing and Blues to a bevy of appreciative visitors...
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Women in Art: Marilyn Minter
Artist - Marilyn Minter If someone were to ask me, "What do you like about a Marilyn Minter painting or photo?" my answer would simply be - Every-fuck'n-thing! Marilyn Minter's work is like an...
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The Richard Diebenkorn exhibition at the Palm Springs Art Museum is an inspiration and a revelation for anyone interested in watching the creative mind at work. It covers only a relatively brief period...
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Finding Out Who Has the Biggest Penis of the Animal Kingdom? With Isabella...
From dolphins to octopuses; from spiders to limpets; from ducks to whales, Rossellini touches upon the sexual habits of many members of our extended animal family. I wish my biology professors at high...
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Zuill Bailey Triumphs in New Recording of Benjamin Britten's Cello Symphony...
Composer Benjamin Britten's 2013 centenary sparked performances of his many-varied works around the globe. His catalogue of operas, orchestral and chamber works, song cycles and more were programmed...
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The Future of the Dog
Above photo: J. J. Grandville, "A Dog Walking His Man, 1868. Perhaps because we still think of animals in terms of the iconic images of Aesop, the half-legendary Greek storyteller from the...
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To Kill or Not to Kill, That is the Question
While the whole world is watching the latest political "reality show" -the Christie-gate -the smaller world of art follows the morbid news of the upcoming building demolition of the former American...
View ArticleFirst Nighter: Loneliness of Long Distance Runner a Bracing Race
It's a good bet many movie lovers would say the two best films to come from England during the New Wave 1960s are Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner. Alan...
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