Continue Reading Hanukkah in Miami The Miami Art Week this year runs from December 3 -9. I won’t be there, so I’ll miss out on press releases…
Continue Reading No Hanukkah in Mongolia An astonishing piece of writing appeared some 5 years ago in the New Yorker. Ariel Levy’s autobiographical essay on having a miscarriage…
Continue Reading Visions On the first night of Hanukkah I found myself surrounded by a gaggle of otherworldly creatures swarming along the sidewalks of Hawthorne…
Continue Reading Happy Hanukkah This week Hanukkah is upon us, fatty foods, hypocrisy and all. Or so I read in the NYT, which reaffirms what I…
Continue Reading Hanacpachap Cussicuinin Amazed I managed to spell that. More amazed at what it actually entails. Today’s title words are the name of a four-part polyphonic…
Continue Reading Roma Add puzzlement to the topics of anger, laughter and tears of previous blogs this week when discussing movies/performance art. Your puzzlement since…
Continue Reading The Rise of the Phoenixes Yesterday I wrote about laughter, today it shall be tears. Rest assured not mine, or at least not publicly. I will discuss them…
Continue Reading The Faghag and her friends in the summer of love I have a tendency to burst into spontaneous laughter when I read something funny. This amused my mother, irritated my father and…
Continue Reading Widows It ain’t for the faint of heart. The movie Widows by Steve McQueen, contains some intensely violent scenes. It ain’t for the feeble of…
Continue Reading Things to be grateful for: Music Let’s finish this week with a few select pieces of music that celebrate the weather – the rains have returned. It’s the…
