Scene4 Magazine — This Issue: September 2012


	September 2012

COMMENTARY

Sociable Contract
Michael Bettencourt
Everything I do, and
everything everybody does,
has a consequence, either
helpful or harmful, for
someone else.

Lingua Thai
Arthur Meiselman
For a time in the last century European languages dominated international communication. Speak them not, and you were considered 'second class'.

Lies and Damn Lies
Nathan Thomas
My summer has been typified by a night in which my beautiful daughter was visited by the Dark Angel of the Projectile Vomit that made Sir Ian Holmes' explosive scene in Alien look mild by comparison

The Ignorant Traveler
Les Marcott
It all started with a bit of small talk at a local shoe store. A man and wife browsing for deck shoes noted that he once had a pair of boots made while on vacation in Mexico.

Damn You, Meryl Streep
Claudine Jones
Being white in the sixties was a problem: all my heroes were people of color: Gandhi, Joan Baez, Harry Belafonte—of course I loved Pete Seeger, too; yet...

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FILM (reviews)
Coriolanus
To Rome With Love
Filled with political double-dealing and bloody battles—including hand-to-hand combat between Coriolanus and his sworn enemy Aufidius, Coriolanus is a natural choice among Shakespeare's plays for updating to our current war-torn times.
Miles David Moore

THEATRE
Rampant Paranoia
All The Way and Party People
Two new plays in the Oregon Shakespeare
Festival's American Revolutions series.
Is it the 1960's or is it today?
Catherine Conway Honig

PAINTING
The Colorful Art Garden of
Nitaya Tamwong
She combines simplicity and a truth of life from the real world and depicts this in her colorful paintings of flowers. The varieties of colors for flowers are important components which provide timeless beauty.
Janine Yasovant
คลิกเพื่ออ่านบทความนี้ เป็นภาษาไทย


THEATRE Cui Bono? It is not most theatre makers' intention to bring about social change and with very few exceptions, making theatre is not an act of heroism; neither does it have a great deal to do with community or even connection. John Freeman

The 'Sweathog' and The Muse Recently, at dinner, a prize-winning poet whined about a rejection she'd received from a literary journal. "They rejected me without even a personal note," groused this distinguished bard. Kathi Wolfe

	COMICS My Old Man! Carry On Nurse! An ongoing series by Scene4's resident mad cartoonist Elliot Feldman


	On Stein, the Beach, and Stupidity Can anyone or anything convince the Steiny Poet that Gertrude Stein's Stanzas in Meditation not only can be read with understanding but also enjoyed? Karren Alenier

	TALE Images of Joe Lying on Joe's waterbed, the large tan curtains shaded the first rays of light. On Joe's dresser were a mirror, brush, some dusty papers and a small photograph in a glass case. Griselda Steiner

	FILM Gertrude Stein in the Movies How right or how wrong does it get when Gertrude Stein appears in the movies? Summer is a good time to have a second look. Renate Stendhal


	Heading Toward Abstraction The Photography of Jon Rendell


	No Touch No Exist The Art of SS. Burrus

Undress Me Michael Bettencourt
In a bar, Laura turns to Stefan and asks him to undress her by word of mouth, in his best mother tongue.

The Greed Gene Michael Bettencourt
A young couple is told by their genetic counselor — the "genie of genes" — that their child has the greed gene, and there is nothing they can do to stop the expression of the gene. What are they going to do?

Sing Freebird Les Marcott
When you're young and your entire life is in front of you, you can afford to write bad scripts with bad dialogue, bad plots with bad characters that no one will give a damn about. .

The Rabbit Lesson Christopher Kent
My dad gets up in front of the class, a thick waft of mouthwash on his breath and he says: "The last thing you learn before they send you to Vietnam is the rabbit lesson." He looked cool as shit, you know.

Dear hello, I hope you read this before... Arthur Meiselman
Found on April 25, 2012 off Pt. Reyes, California caught in a Japanese fishing net

My name is Jip and I'm a monkey... Iri Kopal
Found on November 22, 2011 on a beach at Dutch Harbor, Alaska after an unusually high tide

Turnings Elizabeth Appell
By the time I pulled up to my cabin, my legs barely held. Inside, I fell into the old, threadbare couch, and that gut-gaping hole of sadness spread so wide, it felt like the whole damn artic wind howled through.

The Night Was Full Of Rainbows Kenneth Sibbett
Hell, this ain't no Bible, so don't go a'worshiping it or anything. It's just my account of what happened on the last night on the last day on earth.

Poems Heather Arneson
Love is a ship taken by storm
And its remains visit us as if we were islands

Three Poems Judith Offer
Crab Of The Poet Persuasion
Give Me Words
It Takes A Village To Raise A Pome


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Letters to the Editor

Qreviews Q for "quick" - long and short reviews on theatre and film

Que Pasa Notices, announcements and coming attractions


	Karren Alenier The Dresser addresses what's underneath the art

	Miles David Moore Thoughts and observations from, to, for or against

	Les Marcott Dr. Barnabus T. Bynum's Travelling Minstrel Show



	In This Issue

Nothing Personal

Charles, an adjunct art history professor, has driven to upstate NY to meet the chair of the Art department he works for. He teaches online so he's never met her. A recent paperwork "mix-up" almost cost him his health insurance. When he comes face-to-face with Nancy, he realizes that she is setting him up so she can hand his online teaching job to her pregnant daughter-in-law. But Charles is not going to go quietly into the digital night in this tale of social Darwinism set in world of corporatized higher education.

A PLAY
by
Thomas Kee
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The Lonesome Death of Janis Joplin

Locked in her hotel room, convinced she is washed up and unwilling to sing before her huge auditorium of screaming fans, Janis Joplin tries and fails to raise her manager on the phone. She calls room service for sedatives but none come. Finally she addresses the mirror, which, to her horror, talks back. The SINGER in the mirror is an old, tough blues woman who may or may not be Bessie Smith, but makes it clear in no uncertain terms that she has no patience with the whining little girl routine.

A PLAY
by
Atar Hadari
Read the Play

What Is Obscenity and What's Not?
January 2012 Click Here
A Brief But Quirky
History of the Arts
January 2011 Click Here

The Rising Fall of the Arts
January 2010 Click Here

The One
January 2009 Click Here

What Is Art? / 2008
January 2008 Click Here

View of the Arts/2007
January 2007 Click Here

The Art of Sex in the Arts
February 2006 Click Here

State of the Art of the Arts
October 2005 Click Here


	"Z" Revisited Celebrating the 40th anniversary of his political thriller "Z", Greek filmmaker Costa came to NY to promote its screening. Griselda Steiner April 2009

	Peter Grimes at the WNO Peter Grimes, the 1945 darkly themed opera by Benjamin Britten with a libretto by Montagu Slater, had its Washington National Opera company premiere. Karren Alenier May 2009


	The Steiny Road to Operadom A complete index of all of Karren Alenier's columns in Scene4 with links. Click Here for Access

Comics
Scene4 Magazine: Comics | Elliot Feldman | www.scene4.com
A complete index
of all of Elliot Feldman's
comics in Scene4
with links.
Click Here for Access


	Film Reviews A complete index of the film reviews by Scene4's Film Critic, Miles David Moore Click Here for Access


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