Archive for June, 2025
I Bet Trump is a Bad Cook
from the series Peace House Community Journal... Marti Maltby By MARTI MALTBY One of the worst pieces of advice I ever followed was that I should throw a piece of spaghetti at a wall to test whether it was done. Looking back, I realized the person who told me this was either playing a practical joke or was the victim of someone else’s joke. Too busy trying to decide what to look at to do anything else! All that throwing spaghetti at the wall accomplishes is a waste of food and a mess on the wall. It is so much easier to just bite a piece of spaghetti to see if it is as soft as you want it. Whether spaghetti sticks to the wall has nothing to do with its consistency or flavor. Of course, this is where we get the expression “throw it at the wall and see what sticks”. It means trying every option all at once and seeing what works. So far, that seems to be a pretty good description of Donald Trump’s Presidency. I’m sure that Trump (or at least the people who [...]
June 2025 Events
Ode To Walt WhitmanThrough June 8Open Eye Theatre506 E 24th Street$15 - $30Created & Performed by Bart Buch, Ode To Walt Whitman is a tender, silent puppet poem - a dialogue between Walt Whitman and Federico Garcia Lorca that contrasts Whitman’s America, a nation full of lovers and comrades, with what Garcia Lorca sees, an America inundated with machines and tears. For tickets, visit openeyetheatre.org/ode-to-walt-whitman. “Anpewikin Kolawaya Yelo C’angles’ka K’ogmaya Yelo (The Sun is My Friend… I adorn Myself with a Sacred Hoop),” James Star Comes Out. Featured in Creation.Story, at All My Relations Art. Creation.StoryThrough July 26All My Relations Arts1414 E Franklin AvenueFreeCreation.Story is a group exhibit featuring artists who invoke the oral traditions and creative expressions in their Očhéthi Šakówiŋ heritage, and as such continue this thriving tradition. Artists featured are Jhon Goes In Center, James Star Comes Out, Mikayla Patton, Randilynn [...]
