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Dylan Thomas Poem to Become Syncronized Mobile Headphone Choir
Dylan Thomas' poetry will soon be translated into a new medium--music. Celebrating the centenary of the poet's birth, Thomas' first published poem "And Death Shall Have No Dominion," will become a...
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'Ida': A Film Review by Dr. Lloyd Sederer
Ida A film review by Dr. Lloyd Sederer This is a film about two paths to liberation. Both paths are exquisitely portrayed in Ida, a black-and-white film from Poland that runs a mere 80 minutes, yet...
View ArticleWords & Weddings: 5 Passages for Book Lovers
"Reader, I married him." --Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre June is one of the most popular months for marriage, and there is nothing we love better than a wedding between two bookworms. (Okay, correcting...
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What City Is Your Music Soul Mate?
According to Stevie Wonder, "Music is a world within itself/ With a language we all understand." Its history spans decades, its genres are prolific and it's constantly progressing: Classical music's...
View ArticleThe Real Mona Lisa Turns 535
No street bears her name. No plaques mark where she lived. Although her mysterious smile has enchanted millions, Lisa Gherardini, born on June 15, 1479, is almost invisible in her hometown. After...
View ArticleWriting a Novel as a College-Aged Human: A Guide
For those of us who aren't Stephen King or Donna Tartt, which should be everyone--unless you are reading this, Stephen or Donna, in which case, hello! --writing a novel is a strange, complicated, and...
View ArticleI'm Not Letting Student Debt Get in the Way of Designing My Own Line
I was barely four years old, living in Buenos Aires, when I first asked my mom for a needle and thread. I came across an old doll without any clothes and was determined to give her a full wardrobe. My...
View ArticleBill to Limit Nuisance Lawsuits Against Art Authenticators
Over the 15 years that the Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board was in operation, it was sued "10 or so times, maybe more," by disgruntled owners of paintings that they hoped had been created by the...
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The Playboy Jazz Festival Live at The Hollywood Bowl
Where can you find Al Jarreau, Arturo Sandoval, Dianne Reeves and Huggy Bear (Antonio Vargas), on the same stage? The opening night of the Playboy Jazz Festival at the Hollywood bowl. I attended The...
View ArticleCasey Kasem and the Death of American Mass Culture
This weekend I had to do some boring Saturday chores -- hardware store, oil change, that sort of thing -- so I made sure I left the house right at noon, as I often do. That's because that's when the...
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The (Tortured) Soul of Wit
Try to imagine Grumpy Cat as a professor of German literature at an Ivy League university, haunted by deep misgivings about his role in academia. Now imagine that he has opposable thumbs, an iPhone and...
View ArticleGet Me: Guitarist Joe Beck Leaves a Shining Legacy
Coming of age in the '60s, guitarist Joe Beck was a ubiquitous presence embedded in much of the music that I was listening to at the time. Beck started his career in the early '60s at the age of 17 in...
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8 Tips for Dazzling an Editor With Your Personal Essay
Ironically, as a reader, I never used to be a fan of anthologies or personal essay collections. As a teacher, I did love showing students how to write personal essays or short memoir pieces. As an...
View ArticleAn Art Writer's Ultimate Act of Contrarianism
At first I carried my son everywhere, to art galleries and openings and museums, strapped to the front of my jacket like a figurehead, as a proud emblem of contrarian philosophy. In the arid world of...
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Aisle View: Ivy League Daughter Speaks Out
Nadine Malouf in The Who and the What, photo credit: Erin Baiano A 32-year-old writer, with no husband but a Harvard M.F.A., struggles to finish her novel about gender politics while her widowed...
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Top 20 Twee Icons
This is, admittedly, a subjective list. It's not based on any science or statistics. If you searched the most popular words used in my new history of Twee culture, Twee: The Gentle Revolution in Music,...
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Syrian Diaspora: The Za'atari Refugee Camp (PHOTOS)
The Za'atari refugee camp has become the gateway for the majority of the 600,000 Syrians that have fled their homeland since seemingly innocuous government protests escalated into a bloody civil war....
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Living on the Edge
Everyone wants to live next to a park. Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr. and his civic patrons knew this early on. Olmsted also saw it as the landscape architect's duty to carefully orchestrate the...
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Stage Door: Much Ado About Nothing
Though all indications suggest we're in 16th-century Sicily, from sets to costumes to the charming Italian improvisational banter that opens The Public Theater's Much Ado About Nothing at the...
View ArticleIn Defense of Teaching Poetry
Who needs poetry? asks William Logan's recent op-ed in the New York Times. It concludes, somewhat elegiacally, that only some of us do. Poetry's day in the sun has come and gone, it argues, and this...
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