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Around the Day In 80 Worlds
Before she accepted her new post as director of one of today’s most energetic centers of contemporary art, Sandra Patron first dived into...
Frank Browning
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Covid Dancing on the Left Bank
Paris Place de la Contrescarpe, the heart of my neighborhood, is one of those quiet Left Bank niches that shuttle me almost daily across...
H.H. HOWZE
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Boaz in Paradise
Preface It was “blowing snowballs” as they say in Leadville. Professor F. Boaz was stretched out in an extra-long old-fashioned bathtub...
Bill Bentley
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Bentley’s Bandstand February 2021
The Burnt Pines. Sometimes there are semi-secret clues to understanding how bands achieve a unique sound. The Burnt Pines are a...
Danny N. Schweers
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Photo Prayer / January 2021
Today’s photography assignment is to keep your camera ready and, as the day progresses, to watch for the appearance of a scene worth...
Christopher Brown
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FIELD NOTES / Cold Load ~ A report from the Ercotastrophe zone
All Photographs Christopher Brown © 2021, unless otherwise noted 4 a.m. Monday morning Monday in the middle of the night I was awakened...
Danny N. Schweers
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Photo Prayer / December 2020
Even though the sun has set, the flowers go right on blooming. See for yourself! Go out tonight with your flashlight or be like me — haul...
Bill Bentley
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Bentley's Bandstand / December 2020
Allman Brothers Band, The Final Note. When it’s time to bow down in worship to musical outfits from the 1970s that really set the rock...
Ave Bonar
Nov 2, 20202 min read
Yet Again, Not Dead Yet ...
Every year around the first of November Mexicans and people of Mexican heritage celebrate All Souls’ Day, known in Texas as Day of the Dead
Jeffrey Nightbyrd Shero
Oct 28, 20203 min read
SHADOW, MASKS, VIRUS AND DEATH / THE DREAM
EARLY this morning I had a mind twisting dream. I was a cranky Professor alienated in the time of the plague. My mask wearing students stare
Jeffrey Nightbyrd Shero / Art: Dan Hubig
Oct 28, 20204 min read
Surviving the Economic Depression / You Can't Go Home Again, #4
You still hear from people (the majority?) who think a vaccine will come. This Corona virus will end. And life will be normal. But you...
Bill Bentley
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Bentley's Bandstand / September 2020
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers, Just Coolin’. Leave it to drummer Art Blakey to know how to tear up a bandstand full of hot-blooded...
Bill Bentley
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Bentley's Bandstand / October 2020
Elvin Bishop and Charlie Musselwhite, 100 Years of Blues. When Elvin Bishop whips out his Big Dog red Gibson guitar and Charlie...
Danny N. Schweers
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Photo Prayer / October 2020
Awake in the wee hours, reading Wallace Stevens’ dense enigmatic poetry, I hear clinks and clanks from the kitchen, noises quite distinct...
Bob Simmons
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New Documentary Film: The Poster Boys
A new feature length documentary by Bob Simmons San Francisco's '60s psychedelic poster scene is legendary but Austin, Texas also...
Danny N. Schweers
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Photo Prayer / September 2020
“Watch for something wonderful!” Those words came to me in a dream four days ago. I woke happily expectant, believing they might be a...