Maybe after this experience, I will appreciate blogs or grow even fiercer in my hatred of them. Until then this blog will deal with everything, and a little bit more.
Posted 02.16.2012
The Morgan Library is exhibiting a collection of works illustrating how history's greatest artists, writers and musicians were inspired by animals. ...
Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 01.07.2012
We started to make a list of people throughout history who might be considered Occupy Wall Street's spiritual forefathers and mothers, but it got so long it felt like the album cover for Sgt. Pepper.
Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 12.03.2011
The fact that the movement doesn't make demands of Wall Street -- or Washington, for that matter -- doesn't mean it doesn't have demands. It does, but they're not directed at Wall Street, or K Street, or Pennsylvania Avenue. They're directed at you.
Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 11.26.2011
The #OccupyWallStreet demonstrators are expressing the frustrations of the majority, hoping to channel them into Arab Spring-style change. The work is urgent and the time is now.
Tamsin Smith | Posted 09.18.2011
All the songs on this name-your-price collection represent a story-telling collaboration between The Great Unknown and America SCORES schoolchildren from five cities across the country.
Joseph Smigelski | Posted 08.22.2011
There is a great divide in this country where none should be. I'm talking about the perceived rift between science and religion. There's no real conflict, just one manufactured by manipulative ideologues.
Sebastian Siegel | Posted 08.08.2011
Breath -- and he is inextricably rewoven into eternity, ideated as an aperture through which light shines. Upon a closer look he appears as a portal o...
Chris Kompanek | Posted 08.01.2011
Jerusalem is truly an exhilarating story of lives unfulfilled that captures something rare about the human condition.
John Seed | Posted 05.28.2011
Inside the Huntington's Boone Gallery are 35 completed characters, multiple sets and a working theatrical stage that have been hewn from Frame's imagination over the past five years.
John Lundberg | Posted 11.17.2011
Today officially marks the start of spring, the season long seized on by poets to symbolize rebirth and awakening. Here are three celebratory, though still complex, poems about spring.
Kisa Lala | Posted 05.25.2011
By Kiša Lala Cave, 2010, Mars: Adrift on the Hourglass Sea © Kahn & Selesnick, Courtesy of the Artist and Yancey Richardson Gallery I found...
David Ropeik | Posted 05.25.2011
Down in the hard wiring and chemistry of the brain's survival instincts, if you show someone a picture of Roger Clemens and talk about the charges that he lied, it's like showing them a picture of a snake.
Menachem Wecker | Posted 05.25.2011
"I'm constantly constructively uncomfortable with both parts of the term 'Jewish art,'" says Dan Friedman, arts and culture editor of the New York-based Forward.
Posted 05.25.2011
It's #WriterWednesday and to honor that, we're bringing you Allen Ginsberg's writing slogans. They are some of the best tips we've ever seen. We'd lov...
Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011
Tom DiCillo's When You're Strange is a welcome cinematic excursion, exploration and excavation of the Doors and their music.
Eliezer Sobel | Posted 11.17.2011
Certain Avatar viewers are leaving the movie depressed at their inability to access a world as spiritual and beautiful as Pandora. The problem is not Earth, but rather these viewers.
Anne Naylor | Posted 11.17.2011
Happiness grows from a state of mind -- a perspective about life and your engagement with it, and the actions you take to support your happiness.
James Heffernan | Posted 05.25.2011
Just after reading the latest story about a famous golfer whose behind-the-wheel driving has turned out to be not quite up to par, I had a dream in which William Blake appeared to me and dictated the following.
Sophie Pollitt-Cohen | Posted 05.25.2011
In a plot line inspired by Robert Frost's poem "Road Not Taken," fictional character Archie Andrews has already proposed to Veronica and will propose to Betty next month. I wonder what it would be like if other comics were inspired by poems...
Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 05.25.2011
The heart that struggles with disappointment and sadness believes too easily that hope is a lie, a fraud, another hustler's pitch to the next sucker walking down the street.
Pythia Peay | Posted 11.17.2011
A long tradition exists of writers and artists who have drawn sustenance from the "Land of Nod".
Gershon Hepner | Posted 05.25.2011
Whose feet, I wonder, walked in ancient times upon the ground that still is called Jerusalem? They've disappeared, and yet their traces have not gone away.
Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.25.2011
When did children's music get so awful? It wasn't always as painful to listen to. Some historic recordings, though not exactly classified as "children's," have been cherished forever.
John Lundberg | Posted 11.17.2011
Has poetry officially jumped the shark? I came across an NPR story this past week on a composer who set the "found poetry" of Donald Rumsfeld--pulled...
Peshwas Farik Saadon | Posted 04.26.2012