Digital marketing has changed the face of many industries, including the world of artists and writers. In the past, artists and writers had to “hit the pavement,” networking with others in the industry in the hopes of selling their work. Now, the internet allows for them to branch out and become more well known worldwide. …
Dance festivals downtown and in San Pedro, Spanish flamenco visitors in Hollywood, diversified dance in Echo Park, that Russian swan ballet flutters around town, National Dance Day in Costa Mesa, and more SoCal dance this week. 5. That lady in red One of LA’s most consistent presenters of flamenco, the Fountain Theater joins with this venue’s …
It’s axiomatic: the better the performer, the more difficult it is to give him the respect he deserves. Body language often exceeds the verbal one in expressiveness, because words elude, even when they don’t exactly fail. At the very least, they can be hard to find, especially when it comes to someone as eccentric and magnetic as …
Is it a play? Is it a dance? Is it a play dance will enhance? Or is it a playful pre-Seussical Stein-ussical meussical with fleeting meetings of Gertrudish words? The latter, methinks. Time and distance have not been kind to Gertrude Stein, who is remembered more as an eccentric writer of catchphrases we can’t forget than …
When the September sun washes away misty ripples off the concrete jungle of Kitwe-Nkana, while its rays caresses and licks off August dust from the copper belt, the children of earth pour into the city like an obedient hurricane, to join hands with griots of Chimwemwe, writers of Kwacha, filmmakers of Lechwe and they dance …
For anyone who was on the scene in New York in the 1950s through the 1980s, Roy Cohn was an inescapable malevolent presence. He was juicy copy for all of the gossip columns and became a person of influence connected to virtually every New York City power base: civic government, banking, investment, law, politics, real estate, …
Dolphins Yolanda “Yo-Yo” Whitaker whipped crimped, blonde braids and bragged the earrings I wear are called dolphins and I became bigger bigger than my block bigger than my neon green and black biker short set copped from the swapmeet where airbrushed tees, corduroys, and rows and rows and rows of gold were sold like the …
The case of the five-legs beast That is not the title of a short story by Bashevis Singer, the well-known Yiddish writer and Nobel prize winner. It is simply an echo of a striking ability that author has of being, at the same time, a keen observer of the reality around him while imagining what …
Dublin My Irish friend said, “Let’s go for a dander,” So we walked along the Liffey, Then turned to have a drink At Ryan’s with its famous clock, Engraved mirrors, and snug rooms. Ryan’s is the Victorian bar where Patrick Kavanagh once held court And Ludwig Wittgenstein rented And lived in an upstairs room. We …
seller:sold “Such an image is the prostitute—seller and sold in one” —Walter Benjamin sell, (v.): old english sellan“to give, furnish, lend; surrender, give up, deliver to; promise” to lend a hand and deny that to which it is attached impenetrable to release the shutter to remain out of frame the goal is to deliver …
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