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Visual Arts Interview: Oleksandra Kovalchuk on “Saving Ukrainian Art”

“Ukrainian culture — Ukrainian language, Ukrainian books, literature, poetry, arts — is the testimony of our existence through all these centuries … It is still here, and we try to save it.”

By: Melissa Rodman Filed Under: Featured, Interview, Visual Arts Tagged: Museum for Change, Odesa Fine Arts Museum, Oleksandra Kovalchuk, Saving Ukrainian Art

Jazz Interview: A Conversation with Music Promoter Alex Lemski 

“Music here is great, cutting edge. But to get an audience anywhere you need to get covered … Promoting is a struggle, dealing with the lack of media coverage.”

By: David Daniel Filed Under: Featured, Interview, Jazz, Music Tagged: Alex Lemski, Creative Music Series, David Daniel, Richard Broadman

Author Interview: Novelist Gary S. Kadet — Ferociously Prolific

“I’m really dark. Everything I write is dark. Most people don’t know what dark fiction is, but agents ask for it.”

By: Ed Symkus Filed Under: Books, Featured, Interview Tagged: Ed Symkus, Gary S. Kadet, Mens Rea, S & M, The Ogre Life, Violent Mind Candy

Music Feature: Neighbor Comes into Its Own

The band Neighbor isn’t reinventing the wheel, but it’s not getting steamrolled by it either.

By: Scott McLennan Filed Under: Featured, Interview, Music, Rock Tagged: Lyle Brewer, Neighbor, Richard James, Scott McLennan

Film Interview: “The New Greatness Case” – Caught on Camera, But Who’s Guilty?

In the annals of Russian repression, The New Greatness Case was a display of government overkill — until the events of this year redefined overkill.

By: David D'Arcy Filed Under: Featured, Film, Interview Tagged: Anna Shishova, Human Rights Watch Film Festival, prison, repression, Russia, The New Greatness Case, Vladimir Putin

Filmmaker Interview: Arlington’s Eric Stange on his Documentary “Pony Boys”

This is a delightful and moving tale that provides a much-needed bit of relief from the chaotic world we are currently navigating. Back before there was iPhones and social media, two little boys took off on an unlikely adventure that changed their lives.

By: Glenn Rifkin Filed Under: Featured, Film, Interview Tagged: " Eric Stange, documentary, documentary short, Expo 67, Jeff Whittemore, New England, Pony Boys

Author Interview: Jennifer Haigh on Writing About Abortion — With Roe v. Wade Likely to be Overturned

“As a writer, I was drawn to a subject I can’t make sense of any other way. So the questions swirling around abortion are so close to my heart I just had to write about it.”

By: David Daniel Filed Under: Books, Featured, Interview Tagged: Ecco, Jennifer Haigh, Mercy Street

Author Interview: Kathleen C. Stone on “They Called Us Girls: Stories of Female Ambition from Suffrage to Mad Men””

“Some women ignored what was expected and forged careers in fields traditionally reserved for men. In other words, they had “men’s” jobs. I wanted to know where that ambition came from.”

By: Martha Wolfe Filed Under: Books, Featured, Interview Tagged: "They Called Us Girls", Cynren Press, feminism, Kathleen C. Stone, Martha Wolfe, Women

Author Interview: Steve Almond Reveals “All the Secrets of the World”

An interview with debut novelist (at last!) Steve Almond.

By: Chris Walsh Filed Under: Books, Featured, Interview Tagged: All the Secrets in the World, Chris Walsh, Steve Almond

Theater Interview: John Bell on Bread and Puppet’s Staging of Aeschylus’s “The Persians”

“The play challenges us to think about those we consider our enemies, and to think of them with compassion and understanding.”

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Interview, Theater Tagged: Bread and Puppet Theater, John Bell, Peter Schumann, The Persians

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