The arts, as beleaguered as they are, are subject to a variety of forms of tokenism—as a form of absolving arts-support institutions of the taint of prejudice. In the realm of dance, this prejudice is further freighted with the frightening impact of commerce’s influence on popular culture. Televised talent contests serve to further this prejudice, because while the contestants are tested with a variety of forms within their genre, the forms themselves reflect institutionalized views of that art form. Thu...
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Paperback: 338 pages Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (December 21, 2012) Language: English ISBN-10: 1481118315 ISBN-13: 978-1481118316 Professor Moss has written an unusual book. Moss is a scientist who thinks he has discovered that a new drug (MSF) will delay the ...
Hardcover: 124 pages Publisher: Saint Julian Press, Inc. (February 3, 2013) Language: English ISBN-10: 0988944707 ISBN-13: 978-0988944701 When Angels Are Born celebrates poetry as a language of deep intimacy, a language meant to touch the human spirit and awaken it to the mystery of life, all life. These poems are an invitation into a world that is intimate and wondrous, one that explores the depths of all human hearts. Beckoning the reader to engage in a spiritual practice of divine intimacy that ope...
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 The Key: A True Encounter Whitley Strieber Penguin New York, NY 237 pgs ISBN: 978-`58452-869-4 $14.95 I did not know it at the time, but on the night of June 6, 1998, one phase of my life was going to end and another begin. At around two thirty in the ...
ISBN-13: 9781881471172 Publisher: Spuyten DuyvilPublication date: 9/1/2012Pages: 288 ON ASHES RAIN DOWN There is a sense of shared destiny in the mountain community of Sluggards Creek in a future that seems more like a return to the past. Shared crisis creates a tissue of interconnection as characters hang on by a thread: no food in the stores, no electricity, civil disorder. Stories mostly share the same characters and locales, so it is both a story collection and something of a novel. The deaths of lo...
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Ellaraine Lockie Silver Birch Press Los Angeles, CA 44 pgs ISBN: 97806157677 $9.00 They Speak Starbucks in Italy When I order Two shots of espresso The order taker and coffee maker At the Bar La Cisteria sayss You want two espresso Holding a ...
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Vintage Press New York, NY 160 pgs ISBN: 0-375-71413-8 $12.00 The transformation of the novelist who published Dangling Man in 1944 and The Victim, into the novelist who published The Adventures of Augie March in ’53 is revolutionary. How can I say...
Singer-songwriter and poet David Francis calls his film a "documentary musical collage." Village Folksinger chronicles his life in New York from 1999-2009, from a residency at the notorious 24-hour BMW Bar in Chelsea to the ecological protest song "Anthem for Green England" becoming a digital hit in the UK. It is an historical documentary in that the bars, venues, cityscapes and, unfortunately, some of the individuals are no longer with us. Each music segment in the film is distinctive, assembled from pe...
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Jesus Papoleto Melendez is a native Puerto Rican New Yorker who grew up in East Harlem in the heart of El Barrio. He was nurtured by the Civil Rights Movement, and various youth groups who advocated for uplifting the quality of life for the disenfranchised Latin...
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Romance novels are specifically gendered: the protagonists are usually female, the setting and significant objects are generally seen in hyperbole, the plot invariably concerns the conflicts of liaison with a specific other—even when other conflicts are entwine...
