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America loves its outlaws. Look at some of our more popular films—The Godfather, Goodfellas, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Sting—and... Read more →
Movies That Should Be Seen (but often aren’t), Part 2
Picking up where I left off, I continue my suggested additions to Joseph W. Smith’s book The Best Movies You Never Saw should he publish a second... Read more →
Movies That Should Be Seen (but often aren’t), Part 1
Last week I purchased a copy of The Best Movies You Never Saw by Joseph W. Smith III upon the recommendation of a high school friend, a worthwhile... Read more →
Emily Clark ventures into poetry with Art Triumphant
Emily Robin Clark’s title for her first collection poems, Art Triumphant, seems fitting. While she’s been involved in creative writing since... Read more →
The Responsibility of Creativity
In 1981, the Hungarian film Mephisto won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film of the Year. The story, which begins before the outbreak of World... Read more →
Some Words With L.A.’s Jordan Seigel (and a Look at His CD)
Southern California headlines might well read “Local Boy Makes Good (music)” with the recent release of Jordan Seigel’s debut CD Beyond Images.... Read more →
Fargo Fanaticism? Yah, you bet’cha
In less than a month—September 27 to be exact, I’m going to feel like a kid on his seventh birthday. Why is that? Because that’s the date... Read more →
Review: Poetry en Plein Air by Marianne Szlyk
“Small Town America,” an oil painting from Tom Brown, seems a perfect visual encapsulation of the writings contained within Poetry en Plein Air,... Read more →
Review: A Worldwide Anthology From Australia Honors One Surviving Story
The newly-released One Surviving Story (204 pages) might prove to be a real aid for the survival of one’s state of mind for these days of... Read more →
Reading about how governments react and respond to problems (Reading well in times of illness, finale)
“There have been as many plagues as wars in history; yet always plagues and wars take people by surprise.” — Albert Camus, The... Read more →
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