Khachaturian ballets in Glendale, flamenco in East Hollywood, a ballet film goes live action downtown, dancers with actors in Echo Park, a festival by the sea in San Pedro, Black and Latina/Latino dancemakers in Echo Park, and more SoCal dance this week. 5. Flamenco newbie joins a master For this installment of the mostly monthly Forever …
Idyllwild Idyll from Rick Meghiddo on Vimeo. The planets were aligned in an uncommonly rare position: a) Architect John Lautner‘s Pearlman cabin in Idyllwild was scheduled to be open to the public (subject to RSVP + fee) on Labor Day, September 4; b) It coincided with our anniversary; c) We had not been in Idyllwild for about fifteen …
Darren C. Demaree is the author of six poetry collections, most recently Many Full Hands Applauding Inelegantly (2016, 8th House Publishing). He is the Managing Editor of the Best of the Net Anthology and Ovenbird Poetry. He is currently living in Columbus, Ohio with his wife and children. ***** A VIOLENT SOUND IN ALMOST EVERY …
Darren C. Demaree pursues conceits. In Many Full Hands Applauding Inelegantly, Demaree explores three conceits: “A Violent Sound in Almost Every Place,” “We Are Arrows,” and “All the Birds Are Leaving.” Within each section, each sequence, readers are given new discoveries, internal and external, through the repetition of the titles. If I could give a …
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British playwright Simon Stephens is best known on these shores for his Tony-winning adaptation of the novel The Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. But he has had many original works as well, including Heisenberg and Bluebird, both short and minimalist pieces, but loaded with intense emotions and truthful insight about human relationships. In …
The installation You Can’t Un-See brings to life a deeply psychological painting by the artist PAZ. It uses very bright colors and dramatic poses to create deep emotions and an archetypal experience. PAZ has sculpted the images in this painting and turned it onto a dreamlike space, an interactive sculpture, light and sound installation. The …
Cultural Weekly contributor Eileen Murphy reports from Florida. With her internet out, she sent this article and photos in spurts via Facebook Messenger. * It’s the day before Hurricane Irma’s predicted to smash through Central Florida. The school where my husband and I work is closed. We fight long lines and informal rationing to buy …
William Shakespeare would likely have approved of a recent production I saw of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. It was not held on a stage in a theater but outdoors in a forest on the outskirts of the Judean Hills of Israel. The bard’s words, rendered in Hebrew, echoed through the forest on the evening I …
With the start of the new school year, young humans usually are very concerned with their appearance. This reminds me of how concerned animals like birds are with the way they look, as well. Many birds constantly preen their feathers to look their best. I’m not exactly sure that shoebills care about how they present themselves, …
“EXTERIORS in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn are often deceiving.” — New York Times, “If You’re Thinking of Living in Williamsburg” (June 15, 1986) * Drivers traveling west on Grand Street through East Williamsburg know, or come quickly to know, the closest fuel station and the last before entering Los Sures “Southside” Williamsburg onto the …
The Start of Something New I came home from swim practice one day to my parents calling a family meeting. My sister and I sat quietly on the couch and listened to what they had to say. “We’re leaving Egypt; we decided to move to the United States.” My sister looked at me with the …
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