Arts & Culture

Arts & Culture

Fried brains and Sam

By
Corey King
As I went in no particular direction, for no particular reason, sifting and sloshing my mass of formless molecules through some kaleidoscope reality, I was reminded of a song by this guy I'd met...
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Writing rainbow

By
Leah Werier
Daria Salamon, author of the Prairie Bridesmaid, finds that she does her best writing when she starts at 10 p.m. and works away into the night. Otherwise she “needs to consume an entire pot...
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Chew on this

By
Leah Werier
Martha Street Studio is filled with eye candy. Bacon bookmarks, mock bubble gum modeling clay, “Pollick’s lollipops” and other novelty items that all look good enough to eat. The objects appear to be slickly...
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Lipstick Traces

By
Maria Bowler
Which Spice Girl were you? If you were a female aged seven to 14 in 1996 you probably at least considered it. The Spice Girls were essentially a ‘60s girl group reincarnated for the...
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Lovely Rita

By
John Herbert Cunningham
It’s back. Did we think that, just because, in 1983, Michael Caine and Julie Walters did such a memorable job in the movie version of Educating Rita, we would see the end of it?...
Arts & Culture

Jesus Christ : the interview

By
Ian Girard
Jesus Christ Superstar,” the big block letters outside the Park Theatre will soon read, heralding two back-to-back dates of music and fun for the secular and non-secular alike. JCS is based on the gospel of...
Arts & Culture

It’s not me, it’s you

By
Daniela Smith-Fernández
{ The pair sits facing each other in a neutral public place. The novel is Dance with Snakes by Horacio Castellanos Moya, translated from Spanish by Lee Paula Springer. The book reviewer looks awkward,...

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