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A Vast and Awesome World: Sarah Orne Jewett’s Maine | Carla Maria Verdino-Süllwold | Scene4 Magazine - February 2017 www.scene4.com

A Vast and Awesome World: Sarah Orne Jewett’s Maine

What accounts for the resurgence of interest in her work beginning with the women’s movement in the 1960s?

Carla Maria
Verdino-Süllwold

Dreams and Disappointments

Three extraordinary new films offer variations on the effect of dreams on the human psyche.

La La Land
Fences
Manchester by the Sea

Miles David Moore

The Dictator’s Wife

Thirty-four years of marriage
We may not share our dreams,
We have different visions for the country,
But we share the same bathroom.

Karren LaLonde Alenier

Trump-proofing America
It’s the antidote to the whingeing and hand-wringing going on right now among what passes for a “left” in America about what to do about Trump and Trumpism.
Michael Bettencourt

As the Wheel Turns and Turns
A provocative, controversial, insider's look into the Hollywood "circus", the American political system, civil rights and the abuses of law enforcement.
Arthur Meiselman

Ad absurdum
This is an experiment: keeping electrical usage to an almost dangerous level since our solar inverter crapped out on us.
Claudine Jones

Another New World
The place where Star Wars wins over Star Trek is that to pilot a ship in the Star Trek universe, you have to go to an academy.
Nathan Thomas

Time Shorts
On this day/the backhoe/
that will dig my grave/was assembled
Patrick Walsh

The Sabbath/I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead
A song that speaks to reckless youth, the party lifestyle of a rock star,
and the devil may care attitude of a generation living for the moment.
Les Marcott

Happy Birthday Gertrude Stein

For Gertrude Stein’s 143rd birthday, the Steiny Road Poet offers “On To Do: A Book of Alphabets and Birthdays: Was Gertrude Stein Medievalist, Futurist or Both?”

Karren LaLonde Alenier

The Steiny Road To Operadom | Karren LaLonde Alenier | Scene4 Magazine | www.scene4.com

Cultural Best of 2016: Opera and Other Feasts | Renate Stendhal | Scene4 Magazine - February 2017 www.scene4.com

Cultural Best of 2016: Opera and Other Feasts

Falling in love with an opera and the pleasure of culture was joined by another pleasure, creating a memorable feast.

Renate Stendhal

Arts of Thailand
Duang-rithi Claewplodtook
Thai Food with Style

My passion for food turned me to be a stylist who designs food

Janine Yasovant
คลิกเพื่ออ่านบทความนี้ เป็นภาษาไทย

Colors of the Roundtable: Episode 7-Part II | David Wiley | Scene4 Magazine | February 2017 | www.scene4.com

Episode 7:
Visions Of Paradise - Part II

”So then,” said Sir Purple, “our purpose is to make a phony Paradise that will trick humans into saving themselves?”

David Wiley

Old Fart Village

Oh, My Deer Dear!

Elliot Feldman

The Hudson River | Griselda Steiner | Scene4 Magazine | February 2017 | www.scene4.com

The Hudson River

This is the river
My river
The mighty famous river
Whose coasts grow tall weeds of steel
That reflect glittering lights at dusk

Griselda Steiner

Paris by Night

“Wasn’t this the life everyone wanted? The bohemian romance of unheated garrets, beautiful women, and broken
hearts that turn artists
into Artists?”

Renate Stendhal


	Wall and Ground Wallscapes and groundscapes; where a wall or the ground becomes a canvas for the light and shadows that strike it. The Photography of Jon Rendell

	The Enigma of Contemplation Four American Haikus The Art of David Wiley


	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.

Scene4 Magazine: Perspectives - Audio | Theatre Thoughts | Michael Bettencourt April 2016 | www.scene4.com


	THEATRE THOUGHTS


	An astute and entertaining array of audio essays on an array of topics by an astute and entertaining essayist.


Letters to the Editor Recent Letters

Qreviews Long & short reviews of theatre, film and more

Que Pasa Notices, announcements and coming attractions


	Karren LaLonde Alenier The Dresser addresses what’s underneath the art

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


		Arthur Meiselman Nightdances

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


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