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"Turning the Earth", by Steven Bremer, Encaustic Photo, at the Anthony Brunelli Gallery, Binghamton
Stretching for a Wider Reach
Earthquakes, tsunamis, Olympic events, military campaigns against Taliban strongholds, acting awards … These are “news” events, time sensitive . We’re not a newspaper, not CNN online, FOX News, BBC or Slate. We don’t try to keep up with daily news cycles, or the tragédie du jour. When you publish every two months, you can’t. So the closest thing you’ll find in Ragazine is likely to be “information.” Stories, articles, photo essays. Perhaps closest to “news” would be our listing of scheduled events taking place in the far reaches, from On Location/Columbus and On Location/Los Angeles, to what friends and readers contribute about the local scenes in Pueblo, Colorado or Palma de Mallorca. We stretch for a wider reach.
What did we come up with this update? Well, “What’s your poison?” From poetry by Jose Antonio Rodriguez, and poetry out loud by Jeanann Verlee, to a Ragazine interview with Steve Westlake, editor and publisher of the new National Police Gazette; from creative non fiction selections that explore our relationships to the natural world (our favored take), to the art work of Charles Bremer selected by guest art curator John Brunelli. Back, as always, are our lawyer friends, Levy & Miosek, offering expert (and free) legal advice to the starving artist, and Jeff Katz covering the music scene from upstate New York to the Eastern Bloc. We’re especially pleased that Chuck Haupt has joined the staff as Ragazine’s photography editor. Chuck’s stunning photo essay on Iceland appeared in the last issue of Ragazine, and we’re sure they’ll be more great stuff to come of his work, and the work of others — as evidenced herein by the photography of Ineke Kamps and David Aschkenas.
On the food front, we’ve hooked up with Kitchen Caravan, the web-based culinary show that explores the flavors of different cultures and their cuisines. Politics editor Jim Palombo sets the table with food for thought as he defends his POV that Americans have yet to understand what they call a democratic society is really just capitalism run amok. As if that’s not enough …
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