The 53rd Hostage
We sat in the back of a deuce and a half (two-and-a-half-ton truck), dressed for battle—M-16s, M-60s, hand grenades, and other weapons were loaded up. It was full alert. In a few weeks, I was scheduled to get my discharge from active duty. My Army Read More …
My Shimmering Private Sideshow: Kayte Terry’s Body In Chaos
Kayte Terry traces the boundaries of her body with needle-pricked fingers, leaving behind a delicate whisper of blood, the imprint of a toe and a heel in soft, worn, material, the collected ring of scum, soap, and flesh collecting on the bottom of a shower Read More …
Yesterday is Dead: Life and Men and Death and Love (Chapter Two)
Billy Manes is Editor-in-Chief of Watermark Publishing Group . Follow our weekly excerpts of a draft of his autobiography, Yesterday is Dead: Life and Men and Death and Love. We originally wrote about Billy Manes here. Chapter Two: So Free Her By the weathered age of 15, Read More …
The Right to the City
For architecture students in the late 1970s and early 1980s, late night studio sessions often revolved around two worries: the death of Main Street, and the death of public space. The first thing already happened. We’ve come through it and out the other side where Read More …
Yesterday is Dead: Life and Men and Death and Love (Chapter One)
Billy Manes is Editor-in-Chief of Watermark Publishing Group . Follow our weekly excerpts of a draft of his autobiography, Yesterday is Dead: Life and Men and Death and Love. We originally wrote about Billy Manes here. Chapter One: Where to Start Blip, blop, bloop went the carnage Read More …
A Visit to the Windy City
Matt Duke visited Chicago last week. Here are a few of the staff picks from his journey to the Windy City.
Prologue of Billy Manes’ Autobiography, Yesterday is Dead: Life and Men and Death and Love
Billy Manes is Editor-in-Chief of Watermark Publishing Group . Follow our weekly excerpts of a draft of his autobiography, Yesterday is Dead: Life and Men and Death and Love. We originally wrote about Billy Manes here. PROLOGUE: by Billy Manes “What are you going to Read More …
Timucua Presents Launches New Podcast
Sponsored. What would David MacDonald, host of the podcast Live Art by Timucua Presents, have in common with William Morris—a nineteenth-century writer, textile designer, and social activist? Morris famously asserted, “I do not want art for the few any more than education for the few or Read More …
All False Witnesses: Josiah Lloyd
Josiah Lloyd paints imagery that simultaneously reveals the knowns and the unknowns of our society. I was fortunate to meet Lloyd at the opening of his most recent exhibition All False Witnesses at DBHOM Gallery in Gainesville, Florida. Lloyd has been working in his studio Read More …
Celebrating Women Who Compose
Composers Sharon Omens and Bethany Yucuis Borden appeared on my WPRK radio show, Zero Crossings on February 27, to discuss their March 7 concert event, Celebrating Women Who Compose, which took place at the Blue Bamboo Center For The Arts in Winter Park. A reprise Read More …
