Summer Sun Fun Zehn

  Ten Top Tunes for Summer Listening   For music-loving polyglots, this is a summer listening list for you. Everyone else — steer clear of falling stars.    by Fred Roberts Ragazine Music Editor Category: Best song in the highly competitive...
Stéphane Vereecken \ Photographer Interview

Stéphane Vereecken \ Photographer Interview

© Stéphane Vereecken                      *** Telling an Unfinished Story   Belgian photographer and artist, Stéphane Vereecken holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Academy of Brussels. He has been actively exhibiting from a young age in cultural centers and...

Summer Take Four

        by Fred Roberts Music Editor My favorite acquisitions of the last months are quite divergent in respect to one another. There’s music from the country of Sudan (Abu Obaida Hassan). The US duo Bebe & Serge who were quite well-received in...

Sándor Kányádi/1929-2018

Hungarian-Romanian poet and iconic spokesman of Transylvania, Sándor Kányádi, dead at 89   by Paul Sohar Contributing Writer Sándor Kányádi (1929-2018) was born in a small Hungarian village in Transylvania, Romania, the son of a small farmer – more commonly...
Neoliberal Fascism/Karlin interviews Giroux

Neoliberal Fascism/Karlin interviews Giroux

Photo from the Daily Stormer. Used without permission. *** Henry A. Giroux: The Nightmare of Neoliberal Fascism   Is there a chance to defeat the forces of neoliberal fascism? Henry A. Giroux explains why we must understand the historical and contemporary context...

Gardner Dozois: In Memoriam, by Jack Dann

Remembering Gardner Dozois First Posted on 07/06/2018 by PS Publishing *** Drowning in Memory It’s July 14, 2007, 1:30 am, and I’m trying to reach Gardner. I’m in Melbourne; he’s in an intensive care unit in Philadelphia. I finally get through by calling his partner...

Contemporary Barcelona

Where 10 becomes 11! Category: Dark horse hits Song Title: Patrice And Her Weirdness Artist: Vancouver Undercover Year: 2017 Link: https://vancouver-undercover.bandcamp.com/track/patrice-and-her-weirdness Category: Albums produced by ex-Faust members Song Title: No...

Henry A. Giroux/Education

  Striking Teachers Beat Back Neoliberalism’s War on Public Schools   By Henry A. Giroux Contributing Writer   Thousands of teachers and students are walking out of schools, marching in the streets, and raising their hands and signs in protest...
Mark Levy/Casual Observer

Mark Levy/Casual Observer

All autodidacts: Thomas Alva Edison, Ernest Hemingway, Jimi Hendrix, Stanley Kubrick *** Autodidacts by Mark Levy Columnist Autodidacts, as all of us with college educations know, are people who have been partially or wholly self-taught. You may have heard of some of...

Reme Terrelonge/Poetry

Songbird’s Strum Storm Anaphora happens at the beginning. Anaphora is a prelude. Anaphora has not started to move. Anaphora is shaky. Anaphora shines obliviously. Anaphora introduces it anew. It is the birth.   An enigma is contained by small spaces. An enigma...

Tongue-Threaded Shuttle/Book Review

Lengua lanzadera enhebrada (Tongue Threaded Shuttle) By Lilvia Soto Editorial Garabatos, 2017 Garabatos, Sonora, Mexico First Edition ISBN: 978-607-7670-39-1 150 pages $15.00           A Reckoning With War Review by Michael Foldes Managing...
Secret Barcelona

Secret Barcelona

Photo by Hanny Naibaho on Unsplash *** Barcelona Underground Category: Creation of new universes Song Title: Catalepsia Artist: Neuronium Year: 1977 Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlXhrwJN4rw Category: Magical hypnosis experiences Song Title: Me Voy A Tomar El...
Barbara Rosenthal/A Crack in the Sidewalk

Barbara Rosenthal/A Crack in the Sidewalk

    *** Roles, Ideals and Job Descriptions: The Artist; The Viewer; The Naif; The Collector; The Curator; The Critic; The Art Dealer   by Barbara Rosenthal Contributing Columnist NYC, May 1, 2018 Try as I might continue to try, conclusions and...

The Second O of Sorrow/Review

  The Second O in Sorrow Format: Kindle Edition Size of the file: 552 KB Number of pages in the print edition: 104 pages Publisher: BOA Editions Ltd. (April 10, 2018) Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l. English language ASIN: B07BTDVZ84        ...
Agents of Change: Disrupting School-to-Prison Pipeline

Agents of Change: Disrupting School-to-Prison Pipeline

Photo by Mitchel Lensink on Unsplash   Becoming Agents of Change for Incarcerated Youth: Superintendents Working to Disrupt the School-to-Prison Pipeline   by Jacqueline Young, Larry Leverett, and Rachel Roegman The school-to-prison pipeline represents a...