Tony Awards Quiz: Part One
A quiz about Tony award winners.
Who Doesn’t Tony Love?
Who does Tony hate?
An Interview With Komomo
Jennifer got a gleam in her eye – and she told me all about her favourite title ‘A Geishas Journey’. It was a book about young Japanese girl who sets out to master the ancient art of being geisha. I was fascinated about young Ruriko’s transformation from a school girl into the adult geisha, Komomo.
But Is It Art?
An excerpt from Cynthia Freeland’s ‘But is it Art?’.
Who Does Tony Love?
Hischak looks at Tony award favorites.
Happy Passover: The Szyk Haggadah
A look at the Szyk Haggadah.
Into The Woods: The Oxford Companion To Fairytales
An excerpt from The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales.
Traditional Polynesian Tattooing
Adrienne L. Kaeppler, author of The Pacfic Arts of Polynesia and Micronesia, tells us a little about traditional Polynesian tattooing
Oslo, Norway
Ben’s Place of the Week is Oslo.
What We Failed To Do:
The George Steiner Prize
Philip Davis looks at chances lost…
Sundance: Art, Politics, Business in the Slush
In the post below Pat Aufderheide reports back from Sundance.
Prophecies: Right Here, Right Now
John Brehm shares a poem on the blog.
I Was Brodsky’s Minder
Davis remembers Brodsky.
What is a Funion?
Idris Goodwin poses an excellent questions, “What is they feeding our kids?”
Park Guell
I spent one of the best days of my life in Park Guell in Barcelona. It was the end of a long trip and my companion and I were tired. We came to the park from the back, riding a series of escalators up to the park’s highest point, before wandering slowly towards the largest bench I have ever seen.
Email as literature?
Is the Internet good for literature? On first glance, it seems so. Between internet forums, blogs, messages and emails, nearly everyone is writing, and reading, certainly more than we did just a few years ago, when the ubiquity of television and the telephone seemed to be making literacy obsolete.