The second print issue of Red Wedge -- the tangible, magazine-format component of a larger project dedicated to "rekindling the revolutionary imagination" which includes a website, conference presentations, and who knows what all else -- goes to the printer in a few weeks, so it's a good time to reserve a copy. Or, better yet, to subscribe. The theme is "Art Against Global Apartheid," as explained … [Read more...]
Archives for February 2016
Ecolalia
Umberto Eco died yesterday (Friday) at the age of 84. I've written about his work on occasion over the years, including something on his analysis of the comic strip Peanuts, That's not online. (My piece, that is.) As for Eco's commentary on Charles Schultz's work, it was published in Italian in 1963, and now available on the New York Review of Books site. It's too good not to quote: … [Read more...]
That’s What That’swhatshesaid Said
The show did go on -- despite a cease-and-desist order arriving an hour before Friday night's curtain for That'swhatshesaid in Seattle. Erin Pike's one-person, one-hour performance incorporates female roles from the most-produced plays of the 2014-15 season, as determined by American Theater magazine. The script was assembled ("written" doesn't seem like quite the right word here) by Courtney … [Read more...]
Niche marketing, ne plus ultra…
Apropos of nothing in particular.... because if I don't give in to impulse more readily, this blog is never going to take off.... a selection of offerings from the surprisingly crowded market for cat Tarot: from Elizabeth Wilson, Cultural Passions: "I don’t believe it’s possible to tell the future [...] However when, in the 1980s and 1990s, I gave “readings” at fundraising … [Read more...]