ReThink Review: Like Father, Like Son -- A Realistic Take on Babies Switched...
The premise of children being switched at birth seems more like a relic of fables, legends, and lazily written comedies and soap operas. But that's what makes Like Father, Like Son, the Jury Prize...
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Huffington This Week: The Pulse of a Nation
In this week's issue, we put the spotlight on Egypt, where things feel disturbingly similar to the way they were before the Arab Spring. As we launch The WorldPost, our new global initiative in...
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Power Loses Its Erection & Horses Fly Free
Why shouldn't Imperial Lions play like kittens as they make mischief with the world? And what would happen if all the steel and stone horses that bore our hallowed soldiers, presidents and dictators...
View ArticleIraq: Revisiting the Pottery Barn Rule
In 2006, a visitor to the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, England accidentally became an artwork. Let's call him Dude Descending a Staircase in honor of that merry prankster Marcel Duchamp. This...
View ArticleMy Father's Legacy: Author Portraits
I started working with my father's, Swedish visual artist Carl Köhler's (1919-2006), art about six month after he passed away in that beautiful Swedish summer of 2006. He was born here in Sweden in...
View Article7 Brilliant Writers Who Were Overshadowed by a Contemporary
This year marks the 450th anniversary of the birth of two great Elizabethan writers: Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare. Though William Shakespeare is known as the author of some of the most...
View ArticleRemembering Douglas Davis
Remembering Douglas Davis: Critic, Internet Artist, and Resident of 80 Wooster Street April 11, 1933 -- January 16, 2014 When Shael Shapiro and I were interviewing residents of 80 Wooster Street for...
View ArticleMet Opera: Renee Fleming Melts Hearts Anew in 'Rusalka'
It is the mark of a true diva to be able to turn any part she undertakes into an interpretation by which all others will be compared. Renee Fleming owns just about every role she has ever sung --...
View ArticleThe Path of Poet-Educator Activists
Lyrical Circle began in 2002 as a program dreamt up and initiated by youth members of The Brotherhood/Sister Sol, the comprehensive youth organization I co-founded in 1995. That Lyrical Circle exists...
View ArticleRecord Prices for Norman Rockwell is Tip of the Illustration Art Market
Out-of-town guests and people who just went in for a drink called the hotel management to complain, local newspapers and bloggers all voiced their disapproval, finally San Francisco's Mayor Ed Lee...
View ArticleProntoCon: New York's First (And Smallest) Comic Convention
This Saturday, the New York City comics community descends onto a gathering that is proudly proclaiming itself the "smallest Comic-Book Convention ever in the smallest comics store in the world."...
View ArticleTheater: Debra Messing's Broadway Debut -- How'd She Do?
OUTSIDE MULLINGAR *** out of **** MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB I've often wished Emmy winner Debra Messing had been born in the era of screwball comedies so Hollywood would know what to do with her many...
View ArticleNollywood, Piracy and the Millennial Crisis
Dammy Krane, an emerging superstar in the Nigerian music scene, was born in 1993. This was the same year that the then military president, General Ibrahim Babangida, annulled what many still believe...
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The Sundance Interviews: David Cross and the Cast of His Film, Hits, Mount an...
The Day for Night series traveled to Sundance to talk to some of the filmmakers and cast with films playing at the festival this year. David Cross's film, Hits, is a dark comedy exploring the nature...
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A Woman Is a Sometime Thing
Because it includes a multitude of art forms, artists who create new works of musical theatre face a unique set of challenges: Can they find a topic which will appeal to modern audiences? Can they...
View ArticleHarlem's Apollo Theater Celebrates 80th Anniversary
The Apollo Theater in Harlem Billie Holiday was so terrified by her Apollo Theater debut that she had to be gently shoved on to the stage. She triumphed and earned her place at the legendary theater,...
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Steve Fromholz -- A Guest In My Heart
Recently in Ft. McKavett, Texas, I joined a large group of family and friends for the burial and farewell to the late, great Steven Fromholz, legendary Texas singer and songwriter, husband, father,...
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The 39 Steps, The Norris Center for the Performing Arts, Rolling Hills Estates
Talk about a production whose whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Directed by Ken Parks for the Norris Center for the Performing Arts, The 39 Steps adapted by Patrick Barlow and based on the...
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Shards of Memory: David Prifti
I never got a chance to meet photographer David Prifti before he died of pancreatic cancer in 2011. I have however seen his brilliance in exhibitions at Gallery NAGA in Boston, and most recently in the...
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Practically Magic
Recently, I've been keeping a whitemaninmypocket. It's for protection of course, a charm for the rapidly gentrified, since there's no stopping whitefolks and their artisanal tastes, designer strollers...
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