June Jottings

Happy June! Here’s the latest installment of the magazine we put together every month

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Inside:

** Actor/Singer Leslie Uggams talks about her new film, Dotty and Soul

** Artist Cécile Houel in Conversation with Peter Wise

** Dennis Broe on the Demise of Streaming TV and its effect on the industry, including striking writers

and more!

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Dear Brooklyn,

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“Dear Brooklyn,

I love you. Continue to allow everyone to be who they are, to be free, and to be different. Not only should you step outside the box, but make sure to jump on it and kick it until it breaks . Most of all, maintain the love and joy that is in your city walls. You are beautiful just the way you are.

Yours, Anonymous human being

P.S. Please remember to take out the trash!”

Seeley Street,

Brooklyn, New York

November Notions

This month in the Arts Express Magazine:

** Actress Inger Tudor of Goliath speaks about Voodoo Macbeth and playing Rose McClendon, the legendary Depression-era African-American theater actress.

** A portfolio of photos from the actual historic 1936 Federal Theatre Project production of Macbeth

** 28 Children: Artist Mary McClusker’s moving tribute to children killed by guns

and more!

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Apocalypse Animated

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Animator, Director, Artist, Scapegoat Nina Paley recently completed her Apocalypse Animated project–that is, her unique animations (illuminations?) as applied to the Book of Revelations. She then took the animations and repurposed them to the short three minute video above.

See the whole project at https://apocalypseanimated.com/

And you can hear an interview I did years ago with Ms. Paley here

October 2022 Arts Express Magazine

** Fighting Times: Organizing on the Front Lines of the Class War: a special extended conversation with veteran union UAW organizer and hellraiser, Jon Melrod

**Little Amal Comes to Brooklyn: Little Amal is a 10-year-old refugee from Syria. She is also a 12-foot puppet who has traveled 5,000 miles across Turkey and Europe and now to Brooklyn, in search of her mother. A photo essay.

** Dennis Broe on Robert Colescott’s Anti-Racist, Anti-Imperialist paintings

and more!

View online here: October 2022 AE MAGAZINE

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August’s Actors And Authors

This month in the Arts Express Magazine:

** Veteran Actor Carl Lumbly talks about playing Miles Davis, Gil Scott-Heron, and his new film, I’m Charlie Walker

** Caitlin Johnstone‘s new poems on the latest world madness

** Julia Stein catalogues the city of Los Angeles as a character in modern fiction…and more!

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View online here: August 2022 AE Magazine

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Gun Show!

The American mass obsession with guns is clearly unique and filmmaker Richard Chisolm has made an intriguing short documentary called Gun Show which details one artist’s attempt to come to grips with the national gun worship.

Click on the triangle above or the mp3 link to hear my review as broadcast today on the Arts Express radio program heard on WBAI FM NYC and Pacifica affiliates across the nation.

The Thief of Bad Gags

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Magic fans will enjoy this parody film poster advertising the Golden Gate Gathering, a magic convention organized by Anthony Miller and Rosie Rings.

Magician Kent Gunn explains on the Genii forum that Rosie and Tony are both huge movie poster aficionados. and that they’ve come up with Rosie-fied old movie posters for the GGG for several years.

Thanks to Kent Gunn for the photo of the poster.

Under the Boardwalk

Arts Express wishes you a great summer!

This month in the July Arts Express Magazine:

** Graham Nash of Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young talks Music, Memories, and War

** Great Record Album Covers of the 1960s/70s: those visual pieces of art that trigger instant memories

** Dennis Broe’s “Meet Juan Guaidó,” a parody where the Venezualan presidential pretender’s story echoes a Frank Capra film.

** “Before the Law”: Franz Kafka Meets Julian Assange

and more!!

View here: July 2022 Arts Express Magazine

June Magazine Jewels

June is Busting Out All Over! This month:

** Castro’s Spies: Director Gary Lennon phones in from Dublin to talk about his documentary depicting the heroic undercover Cubans infiltrating Miami, known as the Cuban Five.

** Decolonizing Museums: A review of the new book by Shimrit Lee on the service of museums to imperialism

** Lost People, Places and Spaces: Dennis Broe on the international crime novel writing festival in Lyons

and more!!

View online here: June 2022 Arts Express Magazine