Four Poems about Theater

Oh, so you saw it
I saw a play today
I saw it
Did you think?
I saw a play I saw it Read the rest of this entry »

Oh, so you saw it
I saw a play today
I saw it
Did you think?
I saw a play I saw it Read the rest of this entry »
The likeability of Pinback does not seem to come to one immediately; but after enough listens, it is nearly unavoidable. The same can be said of their newest release, Autumn of the Seraphs.

by Jonathan Hust and Clifton Smith
This exchange took place between our contributor Jonathan Hust and co-editor Clifton Smith. It concerns Jonathan’s addition of a “Current Must-Hear Shortlist” to his Review of Autumn of the Seraphs, also featured in this issue. The list includes five additional albums and a numeric rating; it prompted the following editorial debate. Read the rest of this entry »
by Craig Nagoshi
How can one ratio, ration an experience,
Rationalize its essence Read the rest of this entry »
by Jonathan Hust and Clifton Smith
This is the second part of an ongoing correspondence.
Jonathan,
Why should we bother with all of this song scrutiny? What possible good could all of this extra thinking amount to? Isn’t it enough to like whatever we like as long as it doesn’t hurt anybody?
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by Trevor Helminski
Collaborator: Clifton Smith

Galileo Galilei
by Ottavio Leoni
(1624)
Life of Galileo by German playwright Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956) is a major attempt to dramatize both the life of a great scientist and a crucial episode in the biography of science.