Stone Arabia has been billed as a rock-and-roll novel, but that’s only half of the story. Sure, there is music of the rock genre, but memory and truth make up the backbone of Dana Spiotta’s third novel. Like Spiotta’s other works, Stone Arabia has an interesting premise: the narrator’s brother Nik Worth is the author of his own life in a way...
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There is a notion that art is created by trained professionals and displayed in neat corridors with golden frames for the appreciation of upper class museum patrons. As an individual with a creative side and only time for casual glancing, I find this conception of art both hampering and isolating; and frankly I don’t want to be a part of such a confined...
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Humans enter this world stark naked, vulnerable, shrieking and wailing. The world outside of the womb is frightening. Senses overwhelm the newborn babe. Could children know that the world into which they have entered is pregnant with a plenitude of injustices? With time, the growing child’s senses will be honed. Combined with the abstract concepts that...
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Did you ever have that moment during the day where you look up into a mirror you’re passing and realize you look like you think you’re en route to a MadMen extras casting? No? That never happens to you? That happens to me at least twice a week. One good look at me and most people gather this thought: “You, my gal Friday, are not of this time.”...
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Ongoing Events Going Home – Sculpture and prints by RISD graduate Frank Poor; Going Home is an examination of Poor’s old Georgia stomping grounds, replicating rural architecture in hyper-real photography; exhibit runs through October 30, 2011; see museum website for hours and admissions; Newport Art Museum (76 Bellvue Ave., Newport,...
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