Noir Now: Power and Corruption Sometimes that “sweet smell of success” might be the scent you follow, follow… hither and — what comes next? oh yeah — thither, and never arrive at its source. Or else you find it, you seize it, it’s yours — everything you ever wanted, but . . . Somehow, it’s …
They Write by Night, “Trump in Hell” — in this episode’s poem and, elsewhere, in life Read More »
A closer look at electoral college reform, the future of democracy, and the college scandal that affects us all The 2020 election places America at an historic crossroad in our nation’s identity; we must choose between an idealized past and a future born from a culmination of battles fought and won to bring equal measure …
Electoral College Reform- America’s Red, White, & “Varsity Blues” Read More »
Voting for Biden is a mortal sin. This is what my mom told me she learned, after speaking with a close friend of hers about the upcoming election. I had just called my mom to do, as I jokingly called it, a Facebook Intervention. I had been urging her to stop posting what I found …
Smut’s on my mind. A chunk of that I blame on Covid-19’s shelter-in-place. What on earth to do? Read Love in the Time of Cholera? Watch Schitt’s Creek? Pull up a song by Tom Lehrer? The latter, obviously. A second slice of blame I tag to playwright Donald Freed. Saturdays I hang online with the …
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, …
The world is at a critical moment Architecture by itself can not generate the many solutions that is able to offer without a politically supported global plan. Enlightened and moral leadership is badly needed. “The only safeguard Democracy can have is a free, morally enlightened fearless minority. Fear is the real danger in any democracy.” …
This short documentary, Off-Leash in Long Beach, is a vignette of the city’s Rosie’s Dog Beach. It is also a metaphor for human needs to meet and mix in a natural setting. “Spaces for People” is defined not only by buildings but also by public places such as streets, beaches, and mountain trails. In …
The United States is currently in the midst of political atrocity. There are many problems that our nation faces on a daily basis. From gun violence, to robberies, to the management of national debt, it seems as if the United States will never be freed from the endless string of worries every citizen has to …
How the Trump Administration Has Perpetrated Injustice Toward Hispanic Immigrants Read More »
“Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to endure the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or take action and by opposing, end them.” — Hamlet As a playwright and screenwriter (and also as a former candidate for Congress and political organizer), I have been following the debate over whether to impeach the President not …
To Impeach or Not to Impeach? That Is the Question Read More »
For once the Dems got the visuals right. There they were, Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi, backed by a sea of American flags. They stood before the symbols of political legitimacy, and by extension power accrued to them. Schumer was correctly placed to the left, because he’s taller (we scan visual images left-to-right, because we …
Two Obscure Picks With No Public Profiles, No Presences in the Creative Community This article was first published in DCReport. It is written by Jeanette Lenoir. Today we look at two of Trump’s nominees for the National Council on the Arts. The council is an 18-member board that advises the chairman of the National Endowment …
What We Know About Trump’s Arts Council Nominees Read More »
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