THE EYES OF TEXAS: The Shocking truth
“I knew that the song was strangely creepy,” said University of Texas Austin Professor Alberto Martinez in his book talk at Livra Books this week. He was referring to the…
The Artistic Moon of Tor Falcon
The British artist Tor Falcon has given us a unique diary of her encounters with the Moon, one that will forever change your perception of that globe in the sky.…
SIGNS OF VIRILE MASCULINITY: Peacocks and the Pope’s Beard
This fascinating historical study of representations of masculinity is edited by Konrad Eisenbichler, a professor in the department of Italian Studies at the University of Toronto. He has received numerous…
Before Our Time
Special Editorial Note: This article will appear in the 10th anniversary edition of The Covent Gardener, a superlative magazine published in London. It was written by David Rooney, and is…
SARGENT in PARIS: Unpaintable Beauty
When one thinks of paintings from the late 1800s and early 1900s, the names that come to mind are Monet, Degas, Renoir, van Gogh and Pissarro. All were Impressionist painters,…
THE PRISM OF BEAUTY: Ancient Greeks and the Gods
Image: A Classical sculpture in Florence “It is beautiful; it has no meaning,” the French Nobel laureate André Gide remarked on Aristide Malliol’s sculpture The Mediterranean when it was shown…
The Tea Kettle Cafe
The Tea Kettle Cafe in Old Town Spring is owned and operated by the husband and wife duo of Richard and Kari Dangler. On a recent rainy afternoon I visited…
Immerse Yourself in WAITRESS
If you ever wanted to be on stage, this is your chance. The main stage at the Zach Theatre has been turned into a 360-degree immersive experience for the musical…
The HAM in Hamlet
I asked one patron at the event what he thought of the play. “Hilarious, refreshing, surprising, life-affirming: highly recommended!” Another said “ribald, lascivious, explicit.” Let’s use those seven descriptions as…
The Truth about Machiavelli
This fascinating book represents the distillation of a lifetime of scholarly thought on Machiavelli. The author is Prof. Harvey C. Mansfield of Harvard University, the pre-eminent American political philosopher of…