Archive for April, 2012
Korean American Identity Defined by LA Riots
by David D. Kim
Last week’s media coverage of events in Los Angeles 20 years ago shouldn’t obscure the fact that the city still has major issues to address – even after the news cycle has moved on. This week are are re-posting articles from two newspapers which, unless you are within the communities they serve, you probably don’t read. We have also posted More...
Library of Forking Paths
by Adam Leipzig
When you read sensitively, you hear echoes in the words, the way a phrase in Coetzee shadows a line by Milton.
Small Demons, a startup site, promises to bring this experience to your laptop: to connect with books with everything they reference in other books and in the world at large. Imagine a thread connecting a Neil Gaiman novel with Greek hi More...
Talking with Owa
by Jaz Dorsey
On Monday, January 1, 2007, I sent out an email founding The African American Playwrights Exchange. By Wednesday, January 3 I had heard from about 30 playwrights.
As the year went on, the numbers continued to grow and I spent the first six months of 2007 reading an onslaught of plays by these playwrights that ranged from African American history More...
The Pitch
by Adam Leipzig
A number of readers who also attended the Woody Guthrie concert in Los Angeles last week remarked on the video I’d posted of Tom Morello, of Rage Against the Machine, winding up the Occupy crowd with a rendition of This Land Is Your Land.
Attentive audience members noted that the way he ended the song at the concert was exactly the same way he More...
A Night at the Paramount with Peter Brook’s Grand Inquisitor
by Taline Voskeritchian | HowlRound
On a rainy Boston evening, I skipped with a dear, old friend of many decades and several crossings to the Paramount Theater in Boston, battling the puddles to see Peter Brook’s production of The Grand Inquisitor. We were full with food and wine and coffee and chatter, but most of all full of that sense of excited wonder of which we are (fortunate More...
Der Meister
by Zahava Sweet
A slight man you were with your freckled face and brown cap. You supervised our work at the aviation factory, we marched to each dawn from Ravensbruck concentration camp. Beneath the table where I worked you let me wash the only undergarment I possessed, warming the water with a torch. When the “Boots” came near you tapped m More...Is Opera a Sustainable Art Form?
by Diane Ragsdale | Jumper
This is an excerpt from Diane Ragsdale's recent keynote address at the Opera Europa Conference.
I recently came across a paper, Paradoxes of Sustainability, by a scholar named Alexey A. Voinov from the Institute for Ecological Economics. Here are four key points from Voinov’s paper:
After examining the definitions of sustainability of many More...
