TELEVISION The Answer is to be... Slings & Arrows Shakespeare (so to speak!) in Canada Miles David Moore
DANCE The Muse Suzanne Farrell... Continues to Inspire Catherine Conway Honig
DANCE At Cal Performances The Suzanne Farrell Ballet Renate Stendhal
Coming January 1 A New Special Issue The Rising Fall of the Arts
WRITING The Steiny Road to Operadom Gertrude As Buddha The sculptor Jo Davidson depicted Gertrude Stein as a sitting Buddha. A copy of this sculpture can be seen in New York City's Bryant Park. Karren Alenier
MEDIA La Femme La Mujer La Donna Music Misery I can't help but feel the irony in using music that offends me, tortures me and rapes my ears every time I am forced to hear it at a red light or at a party or an event. Lia Beachy
POETRY Life Among the Heffalumps WWJMD (What Would Jo March Do)? Every December, as the holidays approached, when I was a child, I'd think of Santa. Until I read "Little Women." Kathi Wolfe
COMICS Old Hippy Work Blows, Dude! Elliot Feldman
FICTION The serialization of a new novel by Martin Challis Chapter Ten, Part 2 - In Country Before she could finish describing what she'd seen, he had turned and started the descent back down the slope. Jenni quickly followed. She knew he held the same fear.