Poem of the Week: Human Traces

BY HARRY WAITZMAN My body continually surprises me. While songs rise from my mouth, my ear is deaf, my balance is gone. I leave markers here and there, strands of hair, snow on my hood. I become an Eskimo tracking life, a caribou sniffing for lichens. On my hands and knees, I search for human […]

PUDDIN’ DON’T

PUDDIN’ DON’T

Puddin’ Don’t is a creation of Jake Barlow, inspired by all manner of sillineat-stringess, like Berkeley Breathed’s Bill the Cat, Chuck Norris Facts, The movie Machete, and the great Marty Feldman. Puddin’ Don’t can be found daily online at www.puddindont.com.

POEM OF THE WEEK: How I Begin

BY HARRY WAITZMAN My tongue is tied to my brain through the back door. I stoop and news pours through my nose and ears and is lost. Poetry is not news yet deals with rumors of the heart, I must learn to rage and spout through a whale-wide mouth. I must ignore the givens and […]

Richard Quinn directs Maxwell Anderson’s original Key Largo at the Nyack Village Theatre

The famous “Key Largo,” an original play written by James Maxwell Anderson, who was an American playwright, author, poet, journalist and lyricist, will be featured this week at Nyack Village Theatre in Nyack. Anderson lived on South Mountain Road, in Rockland County. He is most well known for “Key Largo,” his 1939 Broadway play that […]

Thiells Church Music Director Ricky Romano Gets Role in off Broadway Musical “Towards The Moon”

Thiells Church Music Director Ricky Romano Gets Role in off Broadway Musical “Towards The Moon”

Ricky Romano of Stony Point has been playing roles and directing several Hudson Valley shows, including starring as Sam in the Off-Broadway show “Towards the Moon” opening November 19 at the 59E59 Theatres, 59th Street in New York City. Sam is the buddy of Bobby in the production. Bobby is a frustrated, dreamer type fed […]