Of Brooms and Ennui/L. John Harris

Of Brooms and Ennui on the Île Saint-Louis   by L. John Harris (Excerpted from “Café French: A Flâneur’s Guide to the Language, Lore and Food of the Paris Café.” Text and illustrations by L. John Harris. Forthcoming Fall, 2019 from el Leon...
Mika Kangas / Photographer Spotlight

Mika Kangas / Photographer Spotlight

Spiral ©Mika Kangas Photographer Spotlight **** Ink in liquids Artist statement*** I was thinking of other ways to shoot macro photography, as I did macros from nature and insects, but everyone seemed to be doing the same pictures. I wanted something that would speak...
Steve Poleskie/Then and Now

Steve Poleskie/Then and Now

Calais View Lighthouse Church Belfry     Eating Peas in Calais   by Stephen Poleskie Columnist My friend and I were talking about our travels. I don’t go anywhere anymore, for reasons I have related in a previous Ragazine article, though I like to...

Bronco Jedson & Mi???tyria (Music)

    Bronco Jedson & Mi???tyria (Amateurs For Life Records)   Bronco Jedson & Mi???tyria is a name reminiscent of ? and the Mysterians and simultaneously a reference to the band’s location – Graz in the Austrian state of Styria. This is a...

La Stampa – Bonjour Trieste (Music)

  La Stampa – Bonjour Trieste (Vinyl Factory, 2018)   by Fred Roberts Music Editor A literary classic by Honore de Balzac titled History of the Thirteen described a secret society of 13 individuals from different walks of life who together attained a...

Claudia Serea & Maria Haro/TWOXISM

      TWOXISM poems and visual art     by Claudia Serea and Maria Haro 8th House Publishing (Montreal, Canada, 2018) 6” x 9”, paperback, 112 pages ($20.00) http://www.8thhousepublishing.com/8thHouseStore/poetry/twoxism-by-claudia-serea-maria-haro.html...
Cynthia Karalla/The Developer Sketches

Cynthia Karalla/The Developer Sketches

Cynthia Karalla inspects one of her “Developer Sketches”   Light as a Tangible Medium   Review by Babz Sadej Quantum Mechanics mostly deals with theory, light, space, time, gravity, multiple dimensions and so on. What’s interesting about these...

Montreal/Travel

  The Entertainment Scene In Montréal Montréal has become one of North America’s most beloved and commonly recommended cities in recent years. There isn’t necessarily a data point to prove this, but if you pay regular attention to travel commentary online you’ll...

Jimmy Zhivago, In Memoriam

Jimi Zhivago (a/k/a James Daley) in Forrest Sound Studios, Long Island City, Oct 2018.   East Village icon knew everyone, and everyone knew him   By Brian Cullman Guest Contributor Clearly I’m not processing this very well. I’m so used to texting Jimi,...

Henry Giroux/Politics

Trump’s Racist Language of Pollution Drives His Neoliberal Fascism   President Trump speaks to the media after a meeting with congressional leaders about ending the partial government shutdown, in the Rose Garden at the White House on January 4, 2019, in...

Anne Whitehouse/Poetry

MOTHER AND DAUGHTER   Growing up in the South, she never felt she fit in, being way too serious and none too popular. She came north to be educated, and, leaning to the law, clerked for a federal judge and joined the Justice Department. Reared among D.C....
The Pulse of Time/Music

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 M aybe it’s just me but the 2018 zeitgeist is one of the most uncertain I can recall. The disinformation and fake...

OUTSIDE/INSIDE, Book Review

  OUTSIDE/INSIDE …just outside the art world’s inside by Martha King Blaze VOX Books Kenmore, NY ISBN: 978-1-60964-314-0 Copyright 2018 480 pages/Paperback $20.00 on Amazon     by Mike Foldes F or many years when I was of high school age I wondered what...

Fred Skolnik/Fiction

BASIC FORMS: A PROLOGUE   Each thing, insofar as it is in itself, endeavors to persevere in its own being. ─ Spinoza Now we know the language, and we’re fluent in it. ─ Philip Glass   The following is Chapter 1 of “Basic Forms,” the latest...

Jim Palombo/Politics

  Holiday Contrasts by Jim Palombo Politics Editor T here are two dumps located in this area of Mexico, one in the vicinity of San Miguel Allende, and the other, about 30 miles away, is near the city of Dolores Hidalgo. I’ve had the experience of visiting both...