Round and about Europe

  Fred’s Top 10 Playlist for November   by Fred Roberts Music Editor   Category: Fabulous France Song Title: No Lights Outside Artist: Heretic Dreams Year: 1985 Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9peJCpsSgAw Category: Delicious Denmark Song...

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In Considering That Words Matter

  In Considering that Words Matter    by James Palombo T he title of this brief piece speaks for itself – that words matter is a notion with which we’ve become quite familiar. Unfortunately, given the level of vitriol and malevolence coming from all angles...

Henry A. Giroux/Politics

(As true today as it was then…) Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation is not an isolated event, and in the current historical moment has dark meaning Even in the darkest of times we have the right to some illumination. — Hannah Arendt by Henry A. Giroux T he...
Another Round of Hamburg / Playlist

Another Round of Hamburg / Playlist

by Fred Roberts Music Editor   Category: The Non Plus Ultra of Sultry Song Title: Aus Gold modelliert die Nacht Artist: Mariola Brillowska & Felix Kubin Year: 2018 Link: https://vimeo.com/269083198 Category: Dadaistic Noise Orchestras Song Title: Krone aus...
NoWall@All

NoWall@All

NEO-LATINO#NOWALL@ALL       Neo-Latino Artists exhibit at ArtSpace 88 Gallery   by  José Rodeiro O n the eve of National Hispanic Heritage month, celebrating US-Latino culture and ethnicity, Art Space 88 Gallery in Keyport, New Jersey, presents the...
PS1 NY Art Book Fair 2018

PS1 NY Art Book Fair 2018

    Finding Alternatives: The NY Art Book Fair T he world of publishing is far from dead. At least if you’re into the best of what can be done with ink and paper. The annual book fair at PS1 in Queens included alternative publishing initiatives from...

RUNNING WILD

Running Wild is as of 9-17-18 a new column/blog designed to let you know who’s doing (variously) what, when and where… leaving the “Why?” for you to figure out…. if it matters. Send us your stuff: Subject Line,...

The Future of Art/Jane Kallir

  THE FUTURE OF ART Galerie St. Etienne: 2018 Art Market Report   by Jane Kallir Historians sometimes speak of “the long nineteenth century­­”—a continuation of the superficial stability seen in the late 1800s, which in 1914 was finally shattered by World...

Jessica Noyes McEntee/Fiction

  Can You Say Capitalism?   by Jessica Noyes McEntee  Contributing Writer Papa always said, “Princesses have princes to come to their rescue, but you have me. And Donovan, in a pinch—he’s on the payroll for that.” An unsentimental sort, he never followed up...

Joe Giordano/Fiction

At the Cemetery by Joe Giordano Contributing Writer   “Who died?” Craig’s eyes rose. They were brown like a Basset Hound. “What? Oh, Frank, you surprised me.” If we weren’t on the beach, or under the boardwalk with a chick, the guys hung...

Maria Mazziotti Gillan/Poetry

So Many Things I Wish I Had Done So many things I wish I had done, so many things I wish I had said, all those words that could have comforted but that I withheld, so now even so many years after my father’s death I wish I could call him back from inside the mausoleum...

On Location/France

      Cayo Scheyven : liberté et amour (Cayo Scheyven : freedom and love)   by Jean-Paul Gavard PerretContributing Columnist Cayo Scheyven est une artiste d’origine néeralandaise. Elle est le parfait exemple d’une artiste libre qui se moque des...
Then & Now, Stephen Poleskie

Then & Now, Stephen Poleskie

*** Sunday! Sunday! by Stephen Poleskie Columnist Even with the windows closed I can hear them roaring up and down our hill; the motorcycles. I hate the sound now, although I loved it once, when I was younger and I was a rider myself; not just a rider, a motorcycle...

William Crawford/Flash Photo

    Crawdaddy Conjures Up A Mostly Forgotten  Japanese Pop Star, Aku Sakamoto,  To Break International Tension On The Golden Gate.   by William Crawford Contributor Jimmy Pro runs a tight ship at OZQUEST. His mythical travel agency is more of an...