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Issue 105 Fall 2008
Jeffrey Vallance’s art has infiltrated the Vatican, the Debby Reynold’s Museum, the Liberace Museum and a Nautical Museum not far from the Arctic Circle. Writer David Pagel quizzes Vallance on the sacred and the profane.
>>>Philosopher Nick Pappas and painter Katy Martin discuss Plato’s challenge to poetry and the idiosyncratic and subjective from Wittgenstein to Descartes, as he works on a book about Bram Stoker’s Dracula.
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Irvine Welsh has been coined as the acid house badboy of Scotland. He also happens to write like a sonovabitch, a term he’d appreciate. Writer Jenifer Berman and Welsh discuss class allegiance, class betrayal, and “trainspotting” among the muckers.
>>>After an eight year hiatus, the Zen Amsterdam cop returns in van de Wetering’s The Hollow-Eyed Angel. Painter and writer Stanley Moss talks to the former monk/patrolman about the unconventional crime and the unconventional solution.
>>>Cheick Oumar Sissoko makes African films for an African audience. Manon Slome and he discuss what this means: the difficulties, the differences and the ingenious determination with which a culture renews itself.
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Excerpts from Ada Gay Griffin and Michelle Parkerson’s film A Litany for Survival, on the great American poet, Audre Lorde. Tributes and insights from the poet herself, friends and family on what it means to live in the heart.
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From Tone Dialing and our master of the saxophone: “To know or knowing to think doesn’t mean you know. Going and getting back to where you came from is like going again. Nature has no nature.”
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With Mark Eitzel at the helm, American Music Club garnered praise and a devoted following. Songwriter Michael Kroll talks with him upon the release of his album 60 Watt Silver Lining, about eavesdropping, lyrics and the importance of cerebrity focus.
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Playwright and screenwriter Frank Pugliese and actress Martha Plimpton get real about what it means to make work, get work and keep on living in New York, L.A. and the theater world.
>>>What does illusion, Kafka, Gospel music, Bunraku puppets, Sophocles, the Baroque and a dog named Rose have in common? Lee Breuer. One of our most gifted theatrical directors talks with painter Mike Goldberg.
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