Q&A with Actor / Writer Eric Bogosian
by Jay Blotcherh

Time passes imperceptibly, ferociously, and author-playwright-actor Eric Bogosian has become a graying American theater elder...

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The Light in the Forest: Maverick Concerts 2008 Season
by Peter Aaron

Built just outside of the village of Woodstock in 1916 by Maverick Art Colony founder Hervey White, Maverick Concert Hall is a beautiful, hand-hewn wooden “music chapel” in a fairy-tale fores...

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The Secret Life of Figurines: Artist Liliana Porter
by Ross Rice

I can’t help giggling.

A wind-up penguin staggers into the screen from the upper left corner, against a solid white background. It wobbles slightly, then gets off-kilter, pitching forward and elegantly somersaulting into a prone face-up position, balefully staring at the camera before the cut. It’s a funny Chaplainesque moment, where a human character has been assigned to a mechanical object, a real toy, not an animation. And I’m giggling . . . can’t help it

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CAKE: Why Wait for Wedding Cake?
by Gary Allen

Having sat through many a wedding ceremony, with hunger distracting me from the more dignified proceedings upfront, I used to ask myself why do we have to wait for cake until after the ceremony? A bit of cake would make the long service much more palatable, wouldn’t it?...

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