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Fly Me to the Moon: A Horse to Bet On
If you think Fly Me to the Moon is a swinging ’60s ballad, you’re getting close, but if you guess it’s a winning black comedy by Northern Irish playwright Marie Jones about a race horse aptly named after the...
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While Barnstorming Through Black Sea Turkey, Remembering the Tea and Biscuits (Part 1)
“Inshallah, we will make it,” said my driver, Abdul. “But first we must stop and take tea.”
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Hard Truths: Advice Columnist Sugar’s ‘Tiny Beautiful Things’
Writing to receive advice from a public advice columnist is like pushing your mangled and so personal ware at a market: humbling yourself to the appraiser, you lay out your messy tale of fated tryst and betrayal. The...
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‘Dexter’ DVD: A Saintly Production With Hellish Presentation
Some TV shows are of such high quality, it seems like the creators must have been touched by God. The process of getting programming on DVD and Blu-ray must be the work of other forces from a very warm climate, as we...
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Joe Arpaio is the Shoddy Sheriff in ‘If There Were Any Victims’
Sheriff Joe Arpaio has hogged Arizona’s limelight since he was first elected in 1993. His edgy law enforcement tactics, such as outfitting prisoners in pink underwear and feeding them green bologna, made him a...
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Artist of the Week 09/05 – 09/11: Oliver Warden Conveys an Analogous Reality through Otherworldly Video Game Art
From out of his studio apartment, located on a mysteriously unmarked street in Bushwick, New York, Oliver Warden displays selected works on his gessoed white walls, an attempt at replicating the walls of a gallery....
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Artist of the Week 8/29 – 9/4: Jean-Pierre Séguin Creates Abstract Work with a Concrete Context
When told that I would be seeing an exhibition of portraits, I suppressed a sigh, reminded of the dusty old art history textbook that rests forgotten in my closet. To me, the word “portraits” brings to mind an...
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The Tastebreakers: ‘Art of Another Kind: International Abstraction and the Guggenheim, 1949-1960’
We all know from the fairy tale books the fate of Humpty Dumpty, who fell off the wall, and how “all the king’s horses and all the king’s men couldn’t put Humpty together again.”
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Artist of the Week 8/22 – 8/28: Pete Kirill Merges the Line between Communism and Capitalism
Twelve years ago, Pete Kirill graduated from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago with a bachelor’s degree in fine art and design. However, a year before his graduation, he voyaged to Cuba, where he...
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The Intangibility of Inspiration
Two things in life are certain: death (unfortunately), and the accumulation of things. The math, of course, is simple -- the longer we live, the more “things” we accumulate.
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