A Glass Apart

A Glass Apart

Ira Glass, creator of the long-running public radio program This American Life, has become a new generation’s answer to Garrison Keillor. Like Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion variety show before it, This American Life, though a very different kind of...
Page to Stage

Page to Stage

The first “issue” of Live Art Magazine!, a new, annual stage venture with the shape and structure of an art and music magazine, is almost ready for your perusal. The first few performers set the tone for the evening, with a quick-hitting series of short,...
Downstairs Upstairs

Downstairs Upstairs

Your typical tour of a historical mansion invites you to see the house through the eyes of its wealthy and powerful owners. You glide through sumptuous public rooms and peep into ornate bedchambers, with perhaps a passing reference to the household’s servants as...
Collateral Damage

Collateral Damage

“There’s only three things the guys let you be if you’re a girl in the military—a bitch, a ho or a dyke. You can’t win.” So says one of the real-life women depicted in The Lonely Soldier Project. Subtitled “a nonfiction...
Stagestruck: Gobsmacked by History

Stagestruck: Gobsmacked by History

Conspiracy theory is a volatile beast. It stirs strong passions, pitting true believers against equally pious defenders of the official line. On one side are those who find plots and cover-ups in contradictions, murky doings and can’t-be-coincidences. On the...