Sometimes, when you least expect it, good things appear, seemingly out of the air. And so it came to pass that I was invited to participate...

Happy Thanksgiving to all, best wishes and safe travels if you're out and about!

I'm glad that the last two holdouts in the Democratic caucus, Senators Mary Landrieu (D-LA) and Blanche Lambert Lincoln (D-AR), have d...

How quickly the weeks whip past. I'll post more tomorrow, but in lieu of prose, here're are a few more iPhone drawings. I'm up t...

Performa 09 , the biennial performance festival, has been taking place since the beginning of the month, and having missed the entire progra...

Yesterday I mentioned the author Sapphire , from whose novel Push director Lee Daniels created his new film Precious . Journalist, critic...

I haven't seen Precious yet. I'm torn; on the one hand I feel I ought to see it, and on the other hand...I recall Sapphire 's e...

It's been a week since I dropped in here, and every J's Theater reader knows the political business that's occurred since then,...

It's Election Day , or Referendum on Obama's Presidency Day, or Republican Civil War Day, or something. I voted in a disorganized, m...

I haven't posted anything on the baseball playoffs since they began nearly a month ago. In part my silence results from the swift and ig...