A California native, Sandra happily calls Manhattan (her city of choice for the last several decades) home. Enjoying an enduring passion for the theatre, her plays have been produced in several off-off Broadway venues, and an original drama for television was produced by the Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference. Her journalism credits include among others, reviews and profiles for Our Town, A Manhattan Weekly, The New Orleans Review, and Show Business Weekly. She is currently at work on a novel about cinematic illusions and a collection of stories about women in unfamiliar landscapes. Her paintings were featured in the opening exhibition this year at the Seti Gallery in Kent, CT. She believes every subject finds its medium—film, fiction, theatre, fine art—and she loves the journey. An inveterate traveler, she still finds stimulation and surprise in New York, and her cat Pazza, her greatest inspiration.
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Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines Anesthesia, the title of Tim Blake Nelson’s film showcased at the recent Tribeca Film Festival, as a loss of sensation with or without loss of consciousness. That sums up Nelson’s...
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When Ethan Hawke as Major Tom Egan puts his hand on a joystick and sends a drone dead-on to its target, it’s a “good kill.” But in Andrew Niccol’s new film of the same name, which had its premiere at this...
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Making a film about someone else’s diaries -- in this case, The Adderall Diaries: A Memoir by Stephen Elliott -- is a tricky proposition at best. It poses the question, should the director -- the first-time-out...
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Matthew Shepard had so much to live for. But on October 7, 1998, barely two months shy of his 22nd birthday, he was brutally beaten, tied to a fence, and left to die. It’s a terrible tale to tell -- one more gay man...
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Where there is music in whatever form it takes -- live concert, film, TV, ballet, even radio -- there you will find composer David Raiklen. Most recently, his musical muse is Mia Slavenska, the once glittering leading...
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Some stories just have to be told. They are so integral to us, so much a part of who we are that we have to give them breath. That’s certainly the case with Marcia Gloster’s book, 31 Days. The subhead is labeled A...
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Travel the road with experimental lesbian filmmaker Jenni Olson and you’re in for quite a ride — Don Juan, Alfred Hitchcock, Kim Novak, even Father Junípero Serra are all part of her rambling, confessional...
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Who is this George Riley anyway? The three couples in Life of Riley, Alain Resnais’ last farewell film which premiered at the 51st annual New York Film Festival this last October, talk and talk and talk about him. He...
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In The Way He Looks, Brazilian filmmaker Daniel Ribeiro’s new coming of age tale, Leo (Ghilherme Lobo) is blind but that’s the only thing that sets him apart. The way he looks is, frankly, adorable but if you...
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Something very important is happening at 26 Wooster Street in lower Manhattan. Fads and the fashionistas that inspire them may come and go with the raising and lowering of a hem, but the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and...
