Archive for August, 2012
Three Poets
I Have 2x the Love for 1 Child
By Chanel Brenner
Since the death
Of my older son
I worry that the weight
Of my love is too heavy
I often see my son hunched over
The bags of my grief weighing him down
I worry he will get used to it
Bask in it, like the sun
I worry he will come to crave the burn
Find pleasure in the sting of it
I worry More...
Nirvana
Copyright © 2012 by Carol Green. All rights reserved.
Carol Green, the creator of Cultural Weekly's original comic series, Life After Birth, is a life coach, writer, illustrator, veteran film publicist and wry observer living in Los Angeles.
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These ‘Tryouts’ Need to Win
Tryouts, a short film about Nayla, a Muslim American girl who wants to join her new high school's cheerleading squad, is the work of filmmaker Susana Casares. Casares, born in Spain, educated in Germany, and currently completing her MFA at UCLA, has a strong visual style and delights in probing the unexpected corners of her narratives.
The Tryo More...
Metro Performance
by Adam Leipzig
Billed as the "largest participatory extravaganza in the US," Los Angeles' Meet Me @ Metro takes riders on a journey through four of the city's metro stations, and treats them to performances along the way. Beginning at Union Station with a precisely-choreographed dance by event organizer Watts Village Theater Company, highlighted by Andrea Zunig More...
Hi-Def Space
by Rick Meghiddo
Shoppers at the Westfield Century City Mall in Los Angeles may never know that the Annenberg Space for Photography exists next door. The building is low. It is surrounded by gelid corporate buildings. You can’t see it from the street. You either get to it by traversing the well-guarded lobby of 2000 Avenue of the Stars, or ascending from the thir More...
A Personal and Cultural Shift Comes from a Journey Abroad
by Pallas Hupé
Just the other day, I stopped by the video store and rented the beautifully haunting film, Whale Rider. What year exactly? Well, the movie came out in 2002. It’s now a classic. But as anachronistic as a stop by the video rental place may sound, it really is 2012. It’s just that I’m in New Zealand, where they are still putting in video stores More...
The Taiwan-Yiddish Theatre Connection
by Corey Fischer
I confess I was a little nervous as I waited in a bayside café to meet Stan Lai, whom both the BBC and the New York Times have tagged as the most important and innovative playwright and director in the modern Chinese Theatre. But the moment he appeared and I took in his shoulder length hair, goatee and smiling, open face, I felt like I’d always More...
Hey, GOP: The Elephant Has Left the Room
Courtesy of Funny or Die, and in honor of this week's Republican National Convention, here's singer/songwriter/satirist David Lucky's take on what's awry with the GOP. More...
Alanis Morissette’s ‘Guardian’ Recalls ‘Wings of Desire’
by Liquid Architecture
Alanis Morrissette is back in strong, melodic form with her new album havoc and bright lights. The music video for the single "Guardian" pays homage to Wim Wenders' film Wings of Desire (1987). She shot the video in Berlin, the location for Wenders' movie. More...
It all seems like a dream since I made my way out of Nancyland. The world is a different place to me now, bigger and bolder. Sometimes I feel as if I have to grab hold of life right here and now while I still can before my flesh and bon 
