Jack Grapes Poetry Prize 2019 Cultural Weekly’s 7th Annual Jack Grapes Poetry Prize is now open. This contest is FREE to enter. This is the submission link: https://www.culturalweekly.com/submissions/ 3 WINNERS will receive $250 each, plus publication. 6 FINALISTS will receive $75 each, plus publication. The Rules You may submit up to 2, previously unpublished poems …
I had the immense pleasure of experiencing the inaugural walking tour of Six Taste (LA Food Bowl) of Tehrangeles this past weekend. Sally Tiongco, founder of Six Taste and our guide for the day, did a superb job of explaining the history of the spots/restaurants we visited and detailing the exquisite foods we sampled. Our first …
Tehrangeles: LA Food Bowl Walking Tour of Persian Food in Westwood Read More »
I heard the call to prayer for the first time in the United States this Friday. But it was not the familiar, sweet call to worship that I so fondly remember from my time abroad; this was a call to come together as a community—to mourn. I gathered in the courtyard with countless others in …
A Violent Reality: Hollywood’s Influence On Violence Against Muslims Read More »
Breaking the metaphorical walls between disconnected people is the common theme of three new NYC productions. On Broadway, Terrence McNally’s Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune is a tender romance between unlikely lovers, while Off-Broadway, Donald Margulies’ Long Lost and Jesse Eisenberg’s Happy Talk are more abrasive accounts of manipulation and dysfunction with …
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Venice is the hometown of many artists and remains a place of attraction for art lovers. Once a year, the Venice Family Clinic organizes the Venice Art Walk and fund-raising silent auction. In 2019 thirty-four artists opened their doors to visitors. After checking on the artists having open studios, we shortlisted eight: Laddy John Dill …
LOVE, YOU ARE GREEN AND DARK Love, You are green and dark The field I walked as a child Slowly, slowly the snow My favorite word was Far, far And the stars How I had to close my eyes Before they came too close And the snow You are Green Like snow And far Love, …
UPDATE 5/30/19, from the author’s colleague Andy: “Early this morning, I watched as David boarded a flight to Phoenix. As he said to me before going forward in line, “I am so happy.” After 14 months in Adelanto, David was finally released yesterday on a $10,000 bond, with funding aggregated from a crowd-fund, from monies garnered by …
Hershey Felder is a rock star. Not in the literal sense, of course. But in the figurative sense, to be sure. It was evident in the way he was swarmed by audience members and press photographers following his one-man show Hershey Felder: A Paris Love Story. Unusual for a man who’s created a cottage industry …
Horror dance in Highland Park, alumni paying homage in Santa Monica, Fringe Festival tap dance in Hollywood, a First Friday dance break in Venice, helm change in Lincoln Heights, and more SoCal dance this week. 5. Varying variations The Russian classical ballet Raymonda and George Balanchine’s Raymonda Variations are compared and contrasted in this event from American Contemporary Ballet. An artist …
This is me trying to figure out Florida, like I was trying to figure out New York before I moved there, or England when Tommy and I began living in Exmoor. Different sorts of paper, stamped-on images, patterns, colors, random weights and textures, you don’t have to have a reason to gather them. Maybe nothing …
The Writing Braid You look at your reflection through a mirror in the morning. Sometimes. And you remind yourself that you’d like to change the person you once were yesterday. You’re looking at yourself and trying to come up with ways you can use you: Maybe your fingers intertwining with his won’t help you become …
BELPHEGOR On sloth. I thought of writing this poem in some Cs: Canto as in Ezra Pound’s Cantos; Canzone as in Daryl Hine’s Canzone; Confessional as in Robert Lowell’s The Ghost; But this is an experience that needs not a framework: It needs to be written as if the experience is the only one. …
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