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February 11, 2015
TV Stars Fail to Brighten Month in the Country
The Classic Stage Company production of Ivan Turgenev’s A Month in the Country features some high-wattage TV stars present and past (Taylor Schilling of Orange Is the New Black, Peter Dinklage of Game of Thrones, Megan West of How to Commit Murder, Anthony Edwards of ER) and has some arresting moments courtesy of director Erica …
Richard Oyama: The Poet as Comedian
Richard Oyama has published his poetry, reviews, fiction and creative nonfiction in Premonitions: The Kaya Anthology of New Asian North American Poetry, The Nuyorasian Anthology, Breaking Silence, Dissident Song, A Gift of Tongues, Malpais Review, Mas Tequila Review, Cultural Weekly and other small presses and literary publications. The Country They Know (Neuma Books) is his …
Michael Fallon’s Creating the Future
Michael Fallon poses a key question in his decade-long retrospective of art and Los Angeles in the 1970s: What exactly is the position of the artist in relationship to his or her art? His exploration is part historiography and part biographical intrigue that takes the reader inside the swirl of art world personalities and the …
Tudor “Tango”
As we all know well by now, dance can be a seductive visual vehicle when put to excellent use in embellishing music videos, features, and commercials. With its poetic lyricism, especially when augmented by beautiful looking and talented young dancers, it can make for a successful device in the selling of products. Couple this with …
Gained in Translation: The Power of Film Adaptation
The translation of nonfiction literature into film is a daunting task. Difficulties range from adapting sensitive subject matter to condensing complex stories into a cinematic framework. Literature allows both writer and reader to experience the subject on a more intimate level and requires a much greater commitment on the reader’s part rather than just watching …
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Echoes of the City: The Sense of Place
Introduction The sense of place is what we read in a place in terms of the proper behaviour it requires, as in the culturally evolved and accepted principles of ”a place for each thing and each thing in its place” or in “this is not the place to do this or that.” The sense of …
