July 5, 2017

Fourth of July. Special day to see grandma. Jim Storm Photography.

What the Fourth of July Means to Me…

“The Fourth of July – Best Day Ever!!…Time with Grandma” Traveling across the Northern Plains – people enthusiastically share what the “Fourth of July” means to them. Here’s a glimpse.       [alert type=alert-white ]Please consider making a tax-deductible donation now so we can keep publishing strong creative voices.[/alert]         * The authors …

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Hollywood Bowl Goes Up On Its Toes

Contemporary dance opens for Shakespeare at Griffith Park, a visionary’s current vision in Beverly Hills, Beauty and the Beast redux in Pasadena, ballet stars at the Bowl, and more SoCal dance this week. 4.  Dancers assembling furniture Returning as a dance prelude for this free Shakespeare festival, Invertigo Dance Theatre performs excerpts from Interior Design. Laura Karlin and her …

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John Yamrus (Illustrated by Janne Karlsson): Three Poems

Since 1970, John Yamrus has published 26 books (2 novels and 24 volumes of poetry). He has also had more than 1,800 poems published in print magazines around the world. Selections of his work have been taught in colleges and universities and been translated into several languages, most recently, Albanian. His website is johnyamrus.com. * Janne …

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SPACINGS — Once upon a time, Architecture (1)

Once upon a time … in the time of the lean-to and the grotto, humans experienced the basic built space related duality of interior and exterior. Associating that duality with basic relational opposites of security and insecurity, instrumental and esthetic experience, social representation and cosmic symbolism, and with gender roles differentiation, humans produced the embryo …

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Bird’s Eye

Birds are pretty intelligent creatures. Take the African gray parrot, for instance. Don’t think this can really happen? Check this out! Yup, the eyes of birds are so powerful, animals like the owl moth even try to fool predators into thinking they’re being stared down by a pair of bulgy peepers. [alert type=alert-white ]Please consider …

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