The inspiration of this short comic is from Paulo Freire’s Banking Concept of Education. I find myself relating to this topic because I am from a country where a good career is determined by only good grades in school. In order to achieve that mentality, lots of young creative artists who want to pursuing a …
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When I think of the phrase “2020 vision”, the first thing that comes to mind is how much its literal meaning did not apply to the same numerical year we just experienced. Last year, with the descent of a global pandemic, its politicization in the US and subsequent 400,000 thousand & counting lives lost, and the …
Climate Change – Wild Fire Terry Braunstein and Victor Raphael – A Collaboration This collaboration grew out of a professional relationship and mutual appreciation of one another’s work. They were motivated to create these artworks in response to the current political environment over the last few years. Four series of limited edition ink jet …
For this thirty-seventh post in the Poets on Craft series, we have Tom Hunley and Joe Weil Poets on Craft is a cyberspace for contemporary poets to share their thoughts and ideas on the process of poetry and for students to discover new ways of approaching the writing of poetry. In the face of a pandemic …
Kari Gunter-Seymour dedicates her collection of poetry, A Place So Deep Inside America It Can’t Be Seen (Sheila Na Gig, 2020), to “every woman in my life who has befriended, loved and looked after me.” This dedication prepares us for poetry that goes beyond the strictly personal to the regional, evoking the lives of women …
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As I was reviewing the program of exciting events at this year’s virtual TCM Classic Film Festival, taking place from May 6 to 9, I noticed an interview with Debbie Allen to introduce the movie Fame (1980), which screens at 8.45pm on Sunday May 9. Watch A Conversation with Debbie Allen. She played the dance …
Dancing on Santa Monica’s darker side, lessons from a prior plague, four days of street dance, something for Mom, and live dance resurfaces along with streamed performances, plus recent online encores, where to take online dance classes, and more SoCal dance this week. This Week Just don’t call her a yentl Matchmaking scientists with choreographers …
As per his usual practice, he arose in the late morning, then drifted off toward the kitchen. It was there one of the roommates casually informed him that Leonid Brezhnev, leader of the USSR, had died. There was no reason that this news would be particularly relevant to him. At the same time, though, there …
Many places around the world celebrate this year Astor Piazzolla’s centenary of his birth (1921-1992.) A full-page article published recently in the Los Angeles Times triggered some personal memories about my encounter with Piazzolla when I was seventeen years old. I decided to make a documentary on him, his music, his influence on some contemporary …
Before the Pandemic, I was a regular at karaoke clubs. I don’t consider myself a professional singer, but I was once asked to audition for The Voice by one of their scouting producers. Naturally, I was flattered, that is until I waited for a response and was completely ghosted. But it never dampened my enthusiasm …
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Michael Torres’s An Incomplete List of Names was one of the most exciting collections to come out of the Inland Empire last year, but Torres, has moved from Pomona to Minnesota, where he works as a professor at the University of Minnesota, Mankato. The idea of place, where he is from and where he lives …
The Book of Anna (Eoagh Books, 2021) by Joy Ladin reads like a hermeneutic text, riven into splintered layers of story and commentary. The hybrid style—diary entries interspersed with poem cycles—tells the story of Anna Asher, a fictional Czech-German Jew who spent her adolescence in a concentration camp and is living in Prague in the …
The Weeds In This Garden Long ago, I built a self outside myself. I ate what my family ate, answered to my name, but when they said let us pray, I kept my eyes open. There is a price to be paid for resistance. Whatever you call me, I have called myself worse, invented words …
An escape from the busy world, you want your home to be relaxing, stocked with comforts, and a fun space to spend your time and unwind. Most people also want their home to be somewhere people can congregate. So, its no surprise a record amount of people are looking into designing their own home bar. …
Sciatica is a painful health condition caused due to problems with the sciatic nerve. Different stimuli can irritate the sciatic nerve, including a compressed nerve in the lower spine, which triggers pain. And the intensity of this pain can range from mild to excruciating levels. The pain due to sciatica usually occurs in the lower …
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