Mark Levy/Casual Observer
How about this one? You can risk sudden or severe changes in mood or behavior, like feeling anxious, agitated, panicky, irritable, hostile, aggressive, impulsive, severely restless, hyperactive, overly excited, or even suicidal, in an effort to treat what ailment? Ironically, it’s depression, and Paxil and Wellbutrin are the medications. So if you are depressed, these medications can solve your problems by provoking suicide. Logical, I think, but extreme.
Greg Stewart/Around New York
January Jazz: What's Hot When You're Coming in From the Cold by Greg Stewart Illustrations by Lidia Moroz Jazz. This large, amorphous, flexible, strange, constructed, improvisational, musical animal breathes life into New York City with a...
On Location/France
Andelu painter in Vallauris: When reality flies by Jean-Paul Gavard-Perret Contributing Editor ith Andelu the space of the the picture is decomposed as blown by a contagious sphere of influence. The...
Steve Poleskie/Then and Now
I don’t suppose that I am the only person who goes to sleep at night wondering if they will wake up to find the world at war. Or perhaps the war will have started by the time you read this article. I will not comment on the quality of the world leaders leading the world during these times…
Galanty Re-Tweets
Our space shuttle has an outdoor pool./ Never let them see you sweat… unless they think you’re dead and are about to bury you alive.
Barbara Rosenthal/A Crack in the Sidewalk
Is There a Universal Esthetic? Naifs, Innocence, Education, Esthetics by Barbara Rosenthal Contributing Columnist NYC, Jan 1, 2018. It all comes down to the same question every time, doesn’t it? No matter where we start, even in the middle here...
American Witch in Paris/On Location-France
Beast Boutique: Florist Shoppe 2 (France) An American Witch in Paris by Jean-Paul Gavard-Perret Contributing Art Editor ennifer Avery wants to be considered a witch. We agree (it’s always...
Politics/Jim Palombo
At the core of the situation lies a simple matter of fact. We do not have clarity when it comes to our own ideological frame; in essence, we cannot easily distinguish our capitalist and democratic selves. In this context we have never seriously engaged our citizenry in developing a critical understanding of who we are in the mix of how capitalism’s inherent elements rub-up against the principles of democracy. After all, how much time have we spent exploring the cultural instincts that have developed in the most advanced capitalist system in the world? In other words, how have the elements of materialism, aggression, competiveness, consumption/consumerism, individualism, survival of the fittest and the overall profit motive been examined in term of our everyday existence? Furthermore, how do these same elements play out against the ideals of fairness, equality, justice and liberty that we seem to also hold dear? And can the deep-rooted issues we are facing — war and terrorism, racial and/or gender differences, class inequality, moral/ethical behavior, politically corruption, the ineptness of our institutions, health and welfare, and even our own individual shortcomings — be adequately confronted without a realistic assessment of our capitalist and democratic character?
Greg Stewart/Around New York
"Soft Cough" Plays "High Hopes" Long Island band formed in Western New York by Greg Stewart Contributing Columnist t’s a dark night in suburban Long Island where the snow lines sidewalks dotted...
Galanty Miller’s ReTweets
by Galanty Miller here are way too many holidays that obligate us to spend time with our families./ I went through the 5 Stages of Death. I saw the musical CATS in five different theaters./ I...
Barbara Rosenthal/A Crack in the Sidewalk
A Crack in the Sidewalk: Journaling by Barbara Rosenthal — NYC, Nov. 1, 2017. Welcome back again to this monthly column. Looks like the way it began last month is the way it will go every month. That particular incidents will trigger the topics, some of...
Books for Long Nights/Reviews
About Consciousness by Heath Brougher (ISBN #1974100529) 2017 46 pages, 12" x 8.5", paperback, full color ($14.99) Alien Buddha Press. Middleton, DE (https://alienbuddhapress.com/) About Consciousness by Heath Brougher Review by Eli T. Mond ...
On Location/Greg Stewart’s NY
Greg Stewart photo Jack and Odetta, Stage Left 2 Odetta Hartman Rocks the House at Rough Trade Review and photos by Greg Stewart detta Hartman and Jack Inslee take the stage under blue...
Greg Stewart/On-Location: New York
Celebrating Rumi: An Alchemical Feast of Food Poetry and Music by Greg Stewart n a blustery autumn night in the Lower East Side I found my way into a birthday celebration for the beloved Sufi poet, Rumi. In...
Around New York/Greg Stewart
Princess Nokia and Suzi Analogue Rock the House at Villain by Gregory Stewart y name is Suzi Analogue! We gonn vibe tonight!" A whirlwind of light beams out and around the crowd. A wall of sound comes...
Around New York/Greg Stewart
The geographic wonders of New York never cease to impress. After our sight-seeing bike ride, we took a walk around and ended up in an old building. Many of the buildings on the island have a military history. After all, it was a fort designed to protect New York Harbor.
Notes from Wheeler Hill/Michael Czarnecki
Those days everybody was heading west to California, to the Rocky Mountains, so I went east to the Adirondacks, New England, the Maritimes. I hitchhiked over 30,000 miles, off and on, over three years. I’d head out from Buffalo in Spring, return in Autumn, work again till next Spring and head out once more. I backpacked on mountain trails for days on end. Hitched on expressways, highways, small country roads. Stayed a third of the time in peoples’ houses without ever asking once. Spent time with folks who lived in the country and had gardens, chickens, put food up and lived simple lives close to nature. Through all of those hitchhiking miles I never had a bad experience.
Greg Stewart- On Location/New York
The name Knockdown Center comes from the fact that the “knock-down” door style, which could be assembled from a variety of pieces on construction sites, was created here in this factory space under the Manhattan Door Factory. Before that it was a glass factory under the auspices of Gleason-Tiebout. The open courtyard space has an overloaded bike rack, a handful of cars, and a few twenty-somethings milling about with cigarettes dangling from their lips and fingers. The theater-style sign draws in anyone who may walk past, with the name of the venue, the promise of a bar, and nothing more.