Pyro: A memoir of California/Creative Nonfiction

Pyro: A memoir of California/Creative Nonfiction

Photo by Andy Watkins on Unsplash *** Pyro: a memoir of California   by Gregory Von Dare My workday day began at 6:00 a.m. After the clock-in, my first task was to open a six-foot tall safe. That hulk was painted fire-engine red, and its walls were three-inches thick...
Maria Foskolaki/Art

Maria Foskolaki/Art

Light V *** The Sweep of Greece Sea, Air, History and Light Come to Life   by Jean-Paul Gavard-Perret Columnist The work of Maria Foskolaki seems to me of the greatest interest both in the treatment of light and the narrative poetry between figuration and...

In search of… /Fabia Wong

  The Devil’s Bargain: Should justice be negotiable?   by Fabia Chenivesse-Wong Contributing Columnist  Recently, plea-bargaining has made the headlines, a sufficiently remarkable occasion to warrant attention. Plea-bargaining, or the bringing about of a...

The Memory of Objects/Book Review

  Bad Harvest (ISBN-13: 978-0887486388) by Dzvinia Orlowsky Carnegie Mellon University Press https://www.cmu.edu/universitypress/ 5.5” x 8.5” paperback, 80 pages $15.95   THE MEMORY OF OBJECTS Review by Olena Jennings   A poem can depict a memory the...
Ava, Lana and Old Bob Campbell

Ava, Lana and Old Bob Campbell

Photo by Ashutosh Nandeshwar on Unsplash ***   Ava, Lana, and Old Bob Campbell   by Wayne Turmel Contributing Writer Las Vegas, 2018 Bob Campbell was seventy-five by this point. He was never much of a BS artist, rarely spoke at all and never joined in the usual...
Then and Now/Steve Poleskie

Then and Now/Steve Poleskie

Photo by photo-nic.co.uk nic on Unsplash ***   Our Falls   by Stephen Poleskie There are few among us who can say that they have never fallen in some way or another at least once in their lives. When we were children falls were quite common, but usually not...

Derya Yildirim & Grup Şimşek – Kar Yağar (Bongo Joe, 2019)

  Anatolian Cultural Themes at Work Here by Fred Roberts Music Editor “Grup Şimşek is an “outernational” band featuring Derya Yildirim, a virtuoso of the Turkish instrument saz, along with Graham Mushnik (organ) and Antonin Voyant (guitar) of l’Orchestre du...

“Yesterday”/Film review

  In Yesterday, A Glimpse of Fame’s Human Cost   by Margot Parmenter Contributing Writer American novelist William Faulkner once told the Paris Review that “the artist is of no importance — only what he creates is important, since there is nothing new to be...
Navigating Sicily/Travel

Navigating Sicily/Travel

Photo by Vidar Nordli-Mathisen on Unsplash ***  Navigating Sicily   by Carol Severino Contributing Writer As an Italian American (half Sicilian, one-quarter Neapolitan) who takes Italian courses and practices in a community conversation group, the experience of...
Susan Hodara/Creative Nonfiction

Susan Hodara/Creative Nonfiction

Photo by Jp Valery on Unsplash ***  Buck   by Susan Hodara Contributing  Writer   Antlers curving upward. Grayish fur that looks mangy; oily; not soft to touch. Eyes round as targets.  Or would that be the singular ‘eye’?  Because the buck is in profile, mid-air,...

The Music of the Aztecs/Poetry Review

  The Music of the Aztecs Edited by David B. Churchill Pony One Dog Press (Paper, $19.95) (ISBN #978-0-9753095-4-4: 115 pages) PO Box 30552 Bethesda, MD 20824     The Music of the Aztecs Review by Bill Cushing Contributing Writer This anthology’s name...

Steve Dalachinsky/Poetry

the club                                                                                       ok so dolphy left the country  & i just missed trane but i got to see ayler doesn’t that qualify me for the club? where are the wash clothes when you need one & why...

Steve Carter/Poetry

                        “The Slave Ship”                               J.M.W. Turner (British School)                                          1775-1851 A wash of color. Red emerges, then yellow, white, finally the darker colors. A streak of brightness,...

A Crack In The Sidewalk/Barbara Rosenthal

  DAMAGED EGOS, ILLUSIONS and ARTWORKS: Consignments, Drop Offs, Pick Ups, Presentations and Studio Visits by Barbara Rosenthal Contributing Columnist July-Aug, 2019 July 1, 2019 “Hey! You returned my painting with a big hole in it!!” Bill Creston phoned in...

Music Merchants bring it to Nashville

  Everything Awesome About the 2019 Summer NAMM Show in Nashville   The National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM) is a trade-only business show catering to both international and local distributors. Starting over a century ago in 1901, it is held every...