From left: Zwelakhe-Duma Bell le Pere, Daniel J. Watts, Jake Goldbas by Kevin T McEneaney The annual February two-week long Hudson Hall Lift Every Voice features contemporary African American performers.…
by Kevin T McEneaney Valentine’s Day brims with mythology, whether Valentine or aggrieved Hamlet (as well as Romeo and Juliet) plus, billions of lovers in history, sketching lines of unknown…
by Kevin T McEneaney A master guitar player can hang you up on a note, thrill you with a quick chord, make you dream a dream you wanted to dream,…
by Bill Schlesinger Legacy pollution occurs when emissions of a pollutant from long ago persist in the environment and return to impact us at a later time. About 8 months…
by Kevin T McEneaney A vague beginning, unknowable end, in terms of timeline, and when it’s working, as it is now, one cannot calculate the number of snowflakes falling right…
by Bill Schlesinger Many folks feel good when they take waste materials to their local recycling center. What they may not realize is that what they deliver—paper, cardboard, glass, plastic…
In 1991 I acquired the paperback edition of A Commentary on Homer’s Odyssey by Stephen Huebeck, Stephanie West, and J.B. Hainsworth, which had first appeared in hardback from Clarendon in…
by Bill Schlesinger In preindustrial times, human excrement was recognized as a fertilizer; it was gathered up and delivered to farm fields by the “Honey Wagon.” That was closed-loop nutrient…