Every goddamn day: 04/30/25

       So what's the take-away?      From the whole Charlie Hebdo atrocity.
       What's the lesson? The moral of t...

Moses (photo by Lorna Palmer)     Most art—movies, books, plays, paintngs—is entirely forgettable. You experience it, shrug, and never t...

      I know I said Puppetry Week ended yesterday. But someone reminded me of this column, which is about a sort of puppetry, and with t...

     There's nothing like a factory. Wander around a little, discover the most amazing devices.      When I came face-to-face with t...

        “When the facts are against you,” the first part of the old legal saying goes, “argue the law.”      That means, when evidence u...

  Puppetry Week lurches to a conclusion today — there there, take comfort, it'll be back in two years, perhaps, when the festival retu...

     You can, of course, think about this stuff too much.      I was reading Kenneth Gross' artful critique Puppet (University of Ch...