Rainbow Parenting Is Their Choice/Angie Ivan
Most of the studies available to a general audience show that children raised by parents in a same-sex relationship are as healthy and happy as those of straight families. And this, because the well-being of children is unrelated to parental sexual orientation. It is not clear if the researchers observed similar families under all aspects but different just by their sexual orientation that eventually, led to the highlighted conclusion. However, this finding has been challenged by other studies indicating that children raised by LGBTQ families face greater emotional, developmental, and other difficulties than those raised by their stable biological parents. LGBTQ is an acronym that stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer or questioning people.
Nora’s Playlist
Songs for Nora Selected by Fred Roberts Music Editor Category: Nora unsexy Song Title: Ugly Nora Artist: The Soft Boys Year: 1979 Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDDBxJKx3Gs Category: Very cold Noras Song Title: Nora Artist: The...
The Ghost of Berry Creek/Environment
In early July, when I first saw the creek, there had been plenty of water downstream from the collection site. But by August, flow had been reduced to a point where all the water was now being captured by the pipe. Below the intake, the streamside wetland plants had shriveled, or never had a chance to sprout, or had simply disappeared over the years from the altered habitat.
Graciela Iturbide: 50 Years of Photography
The eldest of 13 children born in 1942 in Mexico City to a traditional Mexican family, Graciela Iturbide got her first camera at age 11, inspired by the photographs her father had taken. Iturbide had not begun as a still photographer. She had originally enrolled in film school at the Centro de Estudios Cinematográficos at the Universidad Nacional Autónama de México but was drawn to still photography when she met Manuel Alvarez Bravo, who was teaching there. He became her mentor and she assisted him on a number of photographic shoots throughout Mexico. Iturbide was viewed as the natural successor to Manuel Alvarez Bravo. It was Bravo who told her, “There is always time for the pictures you want.” His work influenced her until his death at age 100 in 2002.
The Hunt for Emmanuel Macron/by Fabia Wong
Photo by Randy Colas on Unsplash *** The hunt for Emmanuel Macron: What happens when the press and public become locked in a feedback loop of extremism by Fabia Chenivesse-Wong Contributing Writer [dropcap style="font-size: 46px;...
Barbara Rosenthal/A Crack in the Sidewalk
FLYING HIGH, LYING LOW: The Ups and Downs of an International Art Career by Barbara Rosenthal Contributing Columnist Northern Hemisphere, March-April, 2019 March 1, 2019, BERLIN -- Whew! I am typing the first draft of this on Feb 10 while ingesting only...
The Pulse of Time/Music
Photo by Morgan Sessions on Unsplash Reopening the Doors of Perception: New Sounds in a Dystopian World by Fred Roberts Music Editor aybe it’s just me but the 2018 zeitgeist is one of...
Richard Young \ Artist Spotlight
©Richard Young Arabian Coffee Artist Spotlight A Style of His Own The work of Richard Young Ragazine: Richard, can you tell us something of your background? Richard Young: Though I have always had a flair for pencil and chalk drawing, I graduated in engineering...
Emel Karakozak/ Photographer Spotlight
© Emel Karakozak Budding 16 | 40x100cm | C-print *** Photographer Spotlight BUDDING oman is a being through which man feels connected to nature, as woman is very similar to nature in birth-giving...
Then and Now/Steve Poleskie
The word “boy” stings. I realize he has purposely chosen the word to convey the feeling of how it must have sounded to generations of black men. “Look, I’m sorry. I didn’t mean anything, really. I was visiting a friend in the Peace Corps and now I’m going home.” I have said the wrong thing again. After two weeks in the country I am aware that most people here are not too fond of Peace Corps Volunteers. Most Sierra Leonese think of them as American spies.
Ana Jovanovska/Art
“Mirrors” is conceived as a local and participatory project. An online photo library is created with copyright documentary photographs from Kumanovo, made exclusively for the purposes of this project…
Gift Boxes for the Rich
Cynthia Karalla Cynthia Karalla’s Gift {boxes} For The Rich Review by Frank Mattondo n the Eighties, I remember meeting a fellow (older than me) who considered himself very lucky to have known a few of the...
TIME OF CHANGE @ Throckmorton Fine Art
Lola Alvarez Bravo The Dream | Isabel Villasenor Tenacatita Jalisco | 1941 | Gelatin silver print | 8 x 10 *** TIME OF CHANGE Visual Dialogue between Lola Alvarez Bravo and Mariana Yampolsky The following essay appears in the guide to TIME OF CHANGE, the...
Stephen Poleskie/Then & Now
Lorry passengers unloading in downtown Bo, Sierra Leone, Stephen Poleskie photo, 1973 Talking of Travels by Stephen Poleskie few weeks ago a good friend of mine, who I hadn’t seen in some time,...
Yoshiro Takayasu/Fiction
A few days later, Kiiko said, “Say, what about the story of a woman who makes a bet whether her husband will cheat on her? A friend of hers who bets against her seduces her husband in order to win the bet. It will make you anxious watching him almost succumb to temptation. In the end, he goes back to his wife, and they live happily ever after.”
R. Benedito Ferrão/Creative Nonfiction
Photo by Javi Lorbada on Unsplash *** A Girl from Zanzibar, a Guy from Goa, and that Chap (from) Mercury by R. Benedito Ferrão had finally arrived, but the start of this journey of a lifetime had...
O. Alan Weltzien/Travel
Photo by Mukiibi John Elijah on Unsplash *** In The Marketplace by O. Alan Weltzien y wife are I are on a mission as the taxi deposits us on Bogyoke Aung San Road, on the southwest corner of the Market...
Evan Balkan/Travel
How do you make sense of a place? Perhaps years from now, I’ll remember little about Quito’s noise. I’ll probably forget that I didn’t sleep much. I’ll not be able to recall the perpetual tickle in my throat or the burn in my eyes. All that will fade away.