Duda Penteado/Art + Activist = Artivist

Duda Penteado/Art + Activist = Artivist

*** Baby, it’s on you by Mike Foldes Review I had a chance recently to visit the Karl and Helen Burger Gallery at Kean University in Union, New Jersey, where Brazilian-American artist and cultural activist Duda Penteado has a solo show running through to...

The Ruined, Blessed Stairs/Donna Vitucci, Creative Nonfiction

  The Ruined, Blessed Stairs   by Donna D. Vitucci We of course desire their kisses, we cry out for them in dreams, try to grab up the mists before they fade. Sheet hems and ant trails in the dirt, the invisible carving the landscape. We nod where they...
Hustlers: Movie Review by Margot Parmenter

Hustlers: Movie Review by Margot Parmenter

Photo credit: STXENTERTAINMENT.COM Scene from Hustlers     In Hustlers, Women Tell the Story   by Margot Parmenter Film Reviewer With Hustlers, writer-director Lorene Scafaria manages to make a story about a gang of strippers who drug and defraud men...
Lotta Lemetti/Photography

Lotta Lemetti/Photography

Lotta filming for her video, Kekta. *** Lotta Lemetti: In Search of Polycultural Identity   Known as a versatile and prolific photographer highly skilled in both digital and analog, Lotta Lemetti has sustained and contributed significantly to the field for years....
Our Back Yard

Our Back Yard

Binghamton Visitor Bureau Photo *** Our Back Yard   The Earth is rich with treasure. We are fortunate to have had the opportunity to mine a bit, and time and again to have hit pay dirt. In addition to the people whose works appear in the links below, there are...

Our Back Yard: Mick McMahon/Poetry

 Death of a Dandelion   The day I died was not just one day. It was a year, maybe two, maybe three – It was slow. It was painful And it went unnoticed. The sun still rose. The day I died, I did not go coughing. There was no sobbing, no wheezing, I did not die...

Our Back Yard: Keery Hastings/Poetry

Body Buried Body burned into a wooden box Or maybe gently paced into a casket; Dug just a bit too high underground. Dressed in a last pair of clothes; Hands to chest – A lonely name ground into pink marbled stone; Settled under the next available lot – The leaves from...

Our Back Yard/Poetry Review by Emily Vogel

Since Sunday   BRITTANY TOMASELLI Distributed for Omnidawn Publishing, Inc.  48 pages | 5 1/2 x 7 | © 2019 Paper $13.95ISBN: 9781632430731Published October 2019   By Emily Vogel Poetry Editor Brittany Tomaselli’s most recent collection of poems, “Since Sunday”...
Our Back Yard: Jules Gotay

Our Back Yard: Jules Gotay

SUBMARINE     The art of Jules Gotay   Language & Perception: Making the Connection   CARNIVAL Artist’s statement: My paintings live on the border between language and the physical world.  They exist in the place where ideas become...
Our Back Yard: KNOW Theater/by Chris Kocher

Our Back Yard: KNOW Theater/by Chris Kocher

  *** Love of Acting Takes Center Stage Binghamton community theater perseveres   by Chris Kocher Contributing Writer The scene: August 1993. A final dress rehearsal for Tennessee Williams’ “The Night of the Iguana,” the first-ever KNOW...

Our Back Yard: Then & Now, by Stephen Poleskie

  Taking Another Fall   by Stephen Poleskie Columnist At the end of my previous column I had implied that I might write about some of my other falls in the next issue. At the time I did not know that this was going to be Ragazine’s final issue. I thought to...

Our Back Yard: Jim Palombo/Politics

  TRUTH AND TRUST – Through the glass darkly    by James Palombo Politics Editor I was watching the news – democrats and republicans going back and forth about the whistleblower report and the phone call transcript tied to President Trump’s conversation with...

Our Back Yard: Mike Foldes/Poetry

          Dreaming in Hungarian Miskolc, Eger, Budapest, letcho, goulash, paprikash, nem, egan, dobos torte, smooth roads, fenceless fields ideally suited for horse-drawn wagons to leave wakes of  broken grasses, transitory roadways for...
Fabia Wong/In Search Of …

Fabia Wong/In Search Of …

Photo by Joseph Chan on Unsplash; U.S. Consulate General in Hong Kong & Macau *** Hong Kong, Neo-Colonialism and the poison pill of identity   By Fabia Chenivesse-Wong Columnist Identity is a contradictory notion. We use it to signify the objective – the...