I posted a bit on my Blogaversary (Blogiversary?), not too long ago, so I will keep this entry brief. Every day of almost every week day thi...

The Translation Project's Black History Month tweet, from February 21, 2021,  highlighting my essay "Translating Poetry, Translatin...

A new year has begun and we are already at the end of its first month, though not without drama. On January 6, 2021, supporters of DJT attem...

At the Oculus, WTC, NYC May this year bring us all much better tidings than the relentless, Covid-19-ridden horrorshow of 2020! Health, pros...

It seems almost unreal that 2020, this tumultous year, is coming to an end. There are positive signs on the horizon when it comes to Covid-1...

I've already blogged about the election, which turned DJT out of office (if he leaves, that is, for which there is no guarantee) and wil...

President-Elect Joe Biden Jr. & Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris This has been a nightmarish year on so many levels, from the deadly C...

The number of films & series I watched this past month dwindled to its lowest level since March, for a range of reasons, not least my sl...

It is hard to believe that August is here and gone. I have been hobbling around, having torn (or severely strained) a tendon behind my knee,...

145,000+ people in the US have officially died from Covid-19 and the totals of those who've gotten it once or multiple times far exceeds...

The horrors--the pandemic continues, with 120,000 now officially reported dead (and who knows how many deaths remain unreported), the afterm...

The pandemic continues, as does life these days in all of its strangeness. This past month 38,000+ Americans died from Covid-19 related caus...

Last month I tallied up all the films I'd watched throughout March as the pandemic wrought havoc, and I noted that I would try to contin...

Earlier this year, and particularly this month, a horror the likes of which we haven't seen in some time, a deadly viral pandemic, SARS-...

A photo from our contract rally at Rutgers-Newark, April 2019 As J's Theater readers--if there still are any!--may have noted, las...

At the American Academy of Arts and Letters Manhattan, NY (photo @ C) Happy New Year! Feliz año nuevo Feliz Ano Novo Bonne anné...

Earlier this summer, I had the immense pleasure of viewing the 2019 Whitney Biennial , which is still running, for a few more weeks (until ...

Six years ago, back in 2013, I blogged about attending the American Academy of Arts & Letters ' annual Ceremonial  award celebratio...

Last fall, Susan Wallner  of the wonderful TV program  State of the Arts New Jersey   contacted me about possibly producing a short clip ab...