The early deals have not been paltry and neither has the snow. Tempting, blanketed and idle, ski runs seemed to peer down upon Park City as Sundance buyers have been waist-deep in high-dollar negotiations. The 2016 Sundance Film Festival will be known as a historic turning point in the economics of the business, because this …
1. Upon seeing her entire life drooped from a transparent noose, you consider the fulcrum, clean or crude, mechanical or flesh, working as a turn. You consider lynching mechanics and question which was raised first – the rope or the neck. You think of the ease with which dancers lift each other’s bodies at particular …
Darren C. Demaree is the author of “As We Refer to Our Bodies” (8th House, 2013), “Temporary Champions” (Main Street Rag, 2014), “The Pony Governor” (2015, After the Pause Press) and “Not For Art Nor Prayer” (8th House, 2015). He is the Managing Editor of the Best of the Net Anthology. He is currently living …
In my virgin entry of “ScreenDance Diaries” at Cultural Weekly from more than two years ago, I opened with a feature about Bat Sheva’s stunning short, Home Alone, and wrote as follows: “Dance is a life force that lives in all of us. Like our instinct to crawl or speak, and our desire to fly, …
Influenced by outside the box artists such as Warhol, Dali and Basquiat, Pat Berryhill approaches the classical with a new eye. She blends traditional photography with the technology of this generation, using her cellphone rather than a professional camera. Then she takes it even further by adding paint to her photos. Berryhill is working on …
Late in Richard Greenberg’s Our Mother’s Brief Affair, the luminous Linda Lavin brilliantly delivers a long, quiet monologue about a seemingly small incident from her character Anna’s past which has haunted and colored her entire life. You can hear the proverbial pin drop as Lavin carefully takes the audience into Anna’s mind and skillfully explores …
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Some people say, “Good fences make good neighbors.” I like to say, “You’re lucky if you find a good neighbor.” Especially a good next door neighbor. Especially one who’s lived in the neighborhood longer than you have. One who will keep an eye on your dog when you leave town for a couple of weeks. …
Often when I read a book of poetry, I find myself saying either “There are a lot of good, memorable poems, but it didn’t feel like a book” or “The book has a great impact, but I can’t recall a single poem or sequence in particular”. In this case, I found myself drawn in by …
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Born and raised in Inglewood, the City of Champions, Monica Santiago is a young Hispanic writer. She enjoys exploring and learning new things on a daily basis. As a 16 year-old, Monica plans on accomplishing great things that will help inspire others and change the world. She is this week’s feature on “Tomorrow’s Voices Today,” the …
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