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Featuring: Short fictions, Politics, Theater, Recipes, Drive-by-Photos, Tangential Motifs, Phantom Ribaldry, Architecture, Manners, Stretch Drives, Liars Poker, Violets , Black Marias

  
In This Issue:

Watts Up Doc

This Week's Drive By Photo

After Ballet, Part 1 - Peter Schetter, Organic Farmer

Tamales--A Recipe and a Success Story

Nancy

Reggie the Snake

Trojan Horse Football
 

A couple of decades ago, conceptual and visual artist Renee Nahum made music using palm trees as notes. Her piece eventually was broadcast, repeatedly, over the local airwaves by a then-venerated news lite show, ‘Eye on L.A.’ -- so that

Just as the mind gets stripped clean under perfect circumstances, so, too, this street, the day after Halloween eve. But nothing happens overnight. So early that morning, with tricks and treats trumped by sunlight shooting up and down, the creatures

By: Diego Carrasco

This is the first in a series of interviews of ex-ballet dancers. Peter Schetter is 47 years old and lives in Ellisville, WI., about a thirty minute drive east of Green Bay, not far from where he grew up. He works

Froggypumpkin called the phone number that's visible on the car sign, and we left a message: George Derby was kind enough to return our call and chat with us. His voice was almost jovial but understated, yet he carefully emphasized certain words.

Reggie the Snake

REGGIE THE SNAKE:
1) The Myth, The Reptile, The Man
In which we are immersed in Reggie's confessionary prose where the snake's brain is converted by bombardment of radiation into the mensch he is today. The sa

Watts Up Doc

He’s made a film about the genius behind the Watts Towers

A documentary about Simon Rodia explores how something wondrous got built. Edward Landler was kind enough to chat with us about his film, and patiently waded through our questions.

Froggy Pumpkin: You’ve been incredibly steadfast and inspiring in persevering in the making of “I Build the ...



DRIVEBYPHOTO

This Week's Drive By Photo

Froggypumpkin called the phone number that's visible on the car sign, and we left a message: George Derby was kind enough to return our call and chat with us. His voice was almost jovial but understated, yet he carefully emphasized certain words.

FP: What do you do and how did you get into it, and what is the effect of the advertising that's on the cars?
G.D.: Oh,...



DANCE

After Ballet, Part 1 - Peter Schetter, Organic Farmer

By: Diego Carrasco

This is the first in a series of interviews of ex-ballet dancers. Peter Schetter is 47 years old and lives in Ellisville, WI., about a thirty minute drive east of Green Bay, not far from where he grew up. He works an organic farm on about half of eighty acres of land he purchased while still in his twenties and dancing in the New York City Ballet (NYCB). ...



TASTES

Tamales--A Recipe and a Success Story

TAMALES:
A RECIPE AND A SUCCESS STORY

Mama’s Hot Tamales Cafe has quickly gained renown for its assortment of delicious tamales and other fine food. Here’s a recipe they were kind enough to share with us.

Cofounder Sandra Romero
Cofounder Sandra Romero was also kind enough to sit with us and discuss how a trailblazing nonprofit eff...

REPORTAGE

Nancy

She worked for Edward R. Murrow...when the news spoke the truth.

Nowadays she lives in South Carolina, and she has long gone by her married name of Nancy Neuman. But when she was a little child growing up as a first generation American in an Italian immigrant family, Nancy Isabel Cammarota hardly would have imagined a future that would have included a pioneer role working with perh...



FICTION

Reggie the Snake

Reggie the Snake

REGGIE THE SNAKE:
1) The Myth, The Reptile, The Man
In which we are immersed in Reggie's confessionary prose where the snake's brain is converted by bombardment of radiation into the mensch he is today. The saga continues... 2) The Myth, The Reptile, The Man
In which we are immersed in Reggie's confessionary prose where the snake's brain is ...



SPORTS

Trojan Horse Football

College football, a game this time of mostly yellows and greens; some red in the stands. The referees are bugs in the air.

The USC Trojans, kings of college football, will murder lowly Stanford. An immediately unstoppable march. Time rushes behind the scores. Cheerleaders bend slowly to the echo.


Band music mists the scent of bloodshed: think the Stones at Altamont.

The...

She worked for Edward R. Murrow...when the news spoke the truth.

Nowadays she lives in South Carolina, and she has long gone by her married name of Nancy Neuman. But when she was a little child growing up as a first generation American in an

College football, a game this time of mostly yellows and greens; some red in the stands. The referees are bugs in the air.

The USC Trojans, kings of college football, will murder lowly Stanford. An immediately unstoppable march. Time rushes be

TAMALES:
A RECIPE AND A SUCCESS STORY

Mama’s Hot Tamales Cafe has quickly gained renown for its assortment of delicious tamales and other fine food. Here’s a recipe they were kind enough to share with us.

Is he a member of the world’s greatest rock band – or an exquisite painter of livestock and other worldly (and otherworldly) matters? Is he Rico Bell – or Eric Bellis? Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Eric Bellis meets us outside his home.* E

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