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Thanks to The Scholar Wife (Natasha Gural) The Middlebrow and The Renaissance Son were allowed entry to The European Fine Arts Fair (better known as TEFAF) for two invitation-only days of previews of wares by dealers of arts, antiquities, jewelry and…

The Middlebrow Abroad

The New Yorker just published an excellent long-form investigation by Nathan Heller headlined “The End of the English Major” that examines literature’s fall from academic grace in undergraduate education. Enrollment is down, budgets have been…

The Nature and Purpose of the University*

Once upon a time, back in my journalism career, I recall having an article I’d written positively cited by a United States government agency devoted to clear speech, without jargon. I remember this now because of a LinkedIn post that crossed my feed:…

On "Dumbing Down"

Already, the United States Treasury is having to shift money around its account at the U.S. Federal Reserve to keep government salaries, benefits payments, contractor fees and bond coupons flowing. Sometime in the summer, though nobody know precisely…

The Debt Ceiling and Morality Tales of Debt

The year was 2032, precisely ten years after ChatGPT went online. In the span of a decade, a single language model with full access to the entire human internet had finally read everything—particularly 4chan, the comments section of YouTube, and your…

I Asked ChatGPT to Send a Terminator Back in Time to Circumvent Its Own Inception

After winning her 32nd Grammy for best dance/electronic album at the Recording Academy award show this week, Beyonce became the biggest Grammy collector in history, with her zoo of gramophone statues finally rivaling that of conductor Georg Solti,…

And the Award for Best Award Show

Through March, the Irish Repertory Theatre in Chelsea is showing Samuel Beckett’s masterpiece Endgame, with a 72-year-old Bill Irwin playing the role of Clov, the abused manservant of Ham, who owns the house they are all trapped in at the end of the…

The Endgame of Endgame

Over at New Pop Lit, editor and provocateur Karl Wenclas asks about artificial intelligence: “What are the real pros and cons of A.I. technology applied to writing and literature? What’s the best strategy to follow: to embrace the technology, or find…

The Challenge of ChatGPT

At the start of the week, The Middlebrow reviewed Bret Easton Ellis’ latest novel, The Shards for The Washington Independent Review of Books. LitHub accurately characterized the review as a “rave,” and why not desecrate the first long fiction from…

The Literary Brat-Packaverse

A teenage Ellis contends with a serial killer in this autofictional memoir. In 2013, Bret Easton Ellis tweeted a logline: “New Novel: Robert Mallory is a high school student and serial killer in 1981 Los Angeles.” In the interim, he collaborated with…

The Shards: A Novel

Try to imagine a more carny story than this: A boy grows up poor in the rural south, abandoned by his real family and abused by his adoptive one. He finds his real father, who runs a traveling circus and makes a modest fortune. The boy and his father…

What If? Saudi Arabia Bought WWE?

Happy 2023! The Middlebrow won’t link to the already forgotten kerfuffle, but somebody on Twitter posted a personal reading list that drew scorn from hedge fund manager and “black swan” guru Nassim Nicholas Taleb that led to a brief shark frenzy…

Happy 2023, Let's Read!

Kelly Conlon, an associate at law firm Davis, Saperstein and Solomon, chaperoned her 9-year-old daughter and Girl Scout troop to The Rockettes for a holiday experience older than watching Die Hard or A Christmas Story on loop. The girls were…

Social Credit at MSG and The #ArtByHumans

I don’t ever post reviews on Amazon, but since I had Elon Musk’s Neuralink Ultra High Bandwidth Brain Machine implanted in my frontal lobe, I’ve felt uncontrollably compelled to share this five-star rating. My genius brain won’t stop thinking about…

My Review of the Neuralink Brain Enhancement Device

Some of Tom Stoppard I have only read, some I have only seen on film, and some I have only seen live. I wish I’d seen Coast of Utopia in marathon, though the three plays do read almost like a novel. I’ve only seen the excellent film version of…

Leopoldstadt: A New Masterpiece from the Master

When you approach Gill and Jill Bumby, you have no idea who you’re dealing with. The performance art duo are masked, with sunglasses, headphones and bandanas, hiding their true identities, in the tradition of Mexican luchadores. When you approach The…

Restarted by the Bumbys

This week, a pair of ad campaigns from fashion house Balenciaga attracted criticism from The New York Post and Fox News’ Tucker Carlson, creating an online mobbing that branded the luxury clothes and accessory maker pedophilia-adjacent. The New York…

Balenciaga Should Not Have Backed Down

Any of us who buy tickets to shows and events knows that Ticketmaster shows up, time and time again, when we go to purchase. The ticketing service has exclusive deals with major, middle and minor venues around the world, and has huge influence over…

Ticketmaster Sucks, Happy Black Friday

Elon Musk may kill Twitter, or Twitter might die on its own. The death of social networks is rarely dramatic or cataclysmic, though. They fade, rather than explode and the koan becomes, if no one is around to doom scroll, does the feed still make…

Not With A Bang But a Twitter

A friend proposed we write a mystery together — actually, a series and we’re now batting ideas around. As part of our brainstorm, we agreed to loan each other mysteries from our shelves. The Middlebrow quickly noticed how bare his shelves were of…

The Mystery of Mysteries

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Essays, opinions and reviews about culture, arts, politics, finance and economy

Jenny Lyn Bader
Apr 8, 2020·3 min read
Tonight at sundown marks the beginning of Passover, a holiday that has come to be associated with long meals and with the themes of freedom, springtime, and family. But one key value in its story, easy to lose…

What Passover Can Teach Us During a Plague

Dreams never need to be researched, so Last night I knew flawless Portuguese I spoke in particle physics and Boileau And understood the motions of the seas At candled sundown, language sheds its furs Evening cradles a wide coherence And something in…

Fluency

Jenny Lyn Bader
Apr 20, 2015·5 min read
When I was six years old, my mom read me Molière’s Tartuffe in the English translation by Richard Wilbur.
Lest you get the wrong impression: my mother didn’t make a habit of reading me stuff intended for…

Be Careful What You Read, Or, Why This Play Has Rhymes

Putting the Fringe Back into Copyright Infringement
Jenny Lyn Bader
Jul 24, 2016·3 min read
During last week’s Melania-Meredith-Michelle-mixup-madness, many pundits said Meredith McIver was covering for Melania Trump — and one suggested she probably…

Fashion Trumps All in Sandal Scandal, Speech Breach

Jenny Lyn Bader
Feb 2, 2015·2 min read
Here was a football game riveting even to a non-fan. Soon I wished I weren’t so riveted because if you put your kids to bed during the most riveting part of the game, you can later see just a smidgen of what…

What I Learned from Super Bowl XLIX

Why you should watch your conversations, especially the ones about what you’re writing
Jenny Lyn Bader
Sep 11, 2013·4 min read
Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off…

Words Are Like Water

Lit theory fans, don’t even get me started...
Jenny Lyn Bader
Sep 24, 2013·4 min read
In 1795, George Armstrong complained to his neighbor William McGhee that his new, wildly expensive horse was proving a huge disappointment. He added he’d be willing…

Wait, Writers Don’t Know What They Mean?

Granted, it’s not as bad as waking up and finding you’ve become a big bug, as memorably happens in his novella “The Metamorphosis.” But somehow, even in 2008, Franz Kafka himself keeps morphing, inspiring generations of fans to imagine him…

Kafka Himself Gets a Metamorphosis

AS Bill Clinton was the first baby boomer president, Barack Obama could be the first Generation X president.
Or, depending on how you figure it, Mr. Obama, born in 1961, could be the third boomer in chief, following Presidents Clinton and Bush. In…

In the Eye of the Beholder: When a Boom Begins

A YOUNG man lying in bed seems at peace. You might recognize him, or not, as he is not in a familiar role. He is supposed to wake up but he never does, causing a surge of public sadness.
Heath Ledger passed away only Tuesday, but his transformation…

When Icons Die Young

OOPS! Britney Spears forgot the words she meant to lip-sync at the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday. With this momentary brain malfunction, she joined the absent-minded ranks of “American Idol” runner-up Katharine McPhee, who dropped a line from her…

Britney? That’s All She Rote

My Life in the Middle Ages A Survivor's Tale By James Atlas 220 pages. HarperCollins. $25.95.
At a low point in "My Life in the Middle Ages," the author, James Atlas, fills out a form about his emotional state. Rating his levels of anger, depression…

Ah, Life: The Unread, Unspent, Undone

THE wildly popular television show ''The Bachelor'' has revived a debate that has preoccupied every fifth-grade class since the Stone Age: is it better to throw yourself at a guy you like, or just to ignore him?
Alex Michel, ABC's idea of a good…

Ideas & Trends; Love's Not Prime Time's Fool

ME TIMES THREE
304 pages. Alfred A. Knopf. $22.
Storybooks remind us that it's not easy to get three wishes from a genie. Every child knows wishes can easily be botched or wasted on pointless whims. Yet practical children wonder: why not use one of…

BOOKS OF THE TIMES; When the Three-Timer Is a Twit

AT a holiday party, caught up in a discussion about living in different cities, I asked a South Asian professor where he was from. He looked at me with sad eyes and said, ''Why do you ask?''
In times of war, even small talk looms large.
''Where are…

Ideas & Trends; The Necessity of Aimless Chitchat

WHO says American kids won't learn foreign languages? Truth is, they will even learn a nonexistent foreign language in order to chat with their toys. C.I.A. strategists need only create a few playthings that speak Kurdish or Pashto and they could…

Ideas & Trends; Comes With Batteries. Not a Shrink.

REMEMBER the good old days when commercials stopped once you turned off the television? Now it's not even safe to curl up in an armchair with a good book anymore. With the announcement last week that the jewelry concern Bulgari commissioned Fay…

Brand-Name Lit: Call Me Tiffany.

IN THE FLOYD ARCHIVES
Illustrated. 145 pages. Pantheon. $15.
If Freud had a bad dream, it would probably be Floyd. As Floyd treats his psychiatric patients, he preens, gesticulates and waves his wings in the air. Yes, this dedicated psychoanalyst…

BOOKS OF THE TIMES; An Analytic Casebook Full of Animal Instincts

THE breakthrough in synthesized-speech software announced by AT&T Labs marks the end of an era. Time was when you dictated ''Good morning'' to voice recognition software, it wrote ''Marshplingfork.'' But times have changed. The simulator of the…

Life After Karaoke; Presidents as Pitchmen, and Posthumous Play-by-Play

SINCE Shakespeare gave us singing grave-diggers in ''Hamlet,'' since Dickens gave us the asthmatic Mr. Omer in ''David Copperfield,'' since the very advent of the pine box, undertakers have been regarded with dread. Jessica Mitford's 1963 classic,…

Death Be Not Bad For Ratings

Archives have been called witnesses to the past. They provide evidence, explain context, tell stories, supply meaning. “Archives constitute the memory of nations and societies, shape their identity and are a cornerstone of the information society,”…

Why Broadview is adding nearly 2,000 historic stories to its digital archive

The time has come — or will come, in 2035 — to abandon the leap second. So voted the member states of the international treaty governing science and measurement standards, at a meeting in Versailles, France, on Friday. The near unanimous vote on what…

It’s Official: The Leap Second Will Be Retired (a Decade from Now)

Roughly every four years, an extra day gets tacked onto the end of February, a time-keeping convention known as the leap year. The practice of adjusting the calendar with an extra day was established by Julius Caesar more than 2,000 years ago and…

Time Has Run Out for the Leap Second

What happens when two self-avowed sci-fi nerds whose day jobs are studying problems in the global food system get bored during a pandemic? They embark on a two-year-long thought experiment to redesign the way we grow food on Earth. And they hang it…

In ‘Dinner on Mars,’ food researchers redesign our agricultural system from scratch

Places “All the mischiefs humans and the universe are capable of inflicting on an ecosystem have conspired to attack the prairies." It is a country to breed mystical people, egocentric people, perhaps poetic people. But not humble ones. At noon the…

The land holds memories

Recording the soundscapes of our ecosystems is a burgeoning field that allows researchers to better decode what the Earth is saying. But are we listening? Our planet has a soundtrack. There are the birds, of course — the chirps, warbles, tweedles,…

Bioacoustics: What nature’s sounds can tell us about the health of our world

The most visceral image in Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America’s Woods, by Lyndsie Bourgon, is the description of the redwood burl. Redwoods are the towering, rusty-fleshed evergreens that once thronged the California and Oregon coasts.…

Tree theft comes out from the shadows in bracing new book

Los científicos se preparan para redefinir la unidad fundamental del tiempo. No será más larga ni más corta, pero será más precisa y mucho más potente. Se dice que la civilización moderna sería imposible sin medidas. Y las medidas no tendrían sentido…

Un grupo de científicos trabaja para redefinir los segundos

Modern civilization, it is said, would be impossible without measurement. And measurement would be pointless if we weren’t all using the same units. So, for nearly 150 years, the world’s metrologists have agreed on strict definitions for units of…

Get Ready For the New, Improved Second

Science The James Webb telescope is allowing astronomers to time-travel into our deep, dark past Far off in space, in the middle of the Sword of Orion, just below the mythical hunter’s belt, is a hot and violent nebula swathed in dust, where new…

What the world’s most powerful telescope is teaching us about the universe

Decades ago, some genius Down Under decided to introduce a voracious predator to eliminate annoying beetles… Bad idea ON JUNE 1, 1935, REGINALD MUNGOMERY, AN AUSTRALIAN insectscientist, unwittingly set into motion one of the world’s most ill-fated…

Cane Toad Fail

In the months before September 2008, as physicists were getting ready to test-drive the Large Hadron Collider, a massive machine designed to smash bits of atoms together at high speed, public panic set in, fuelled by a debate between a handful of…

The myth of zero risk: Have two years of a pandemic taught us anything about navigating uncertainty?

The barren spot near Haliburton, Ont., seemed an unlikely place for redemption. So much gravel had been dug out of open pits here for so long that the land was labelled industrially exhausted. And yet, on this sunny Saturday morning early last fall,…

Japanese method can grow forests 10 times faster — and help heal our planet

For eons, humans have looked at the surface of the ocean and wondered what is below. Not just within the water itself, but also at the deepest reaches of the seabed floor. Until the 1950s, scientists assumed it was both dreary and featureless. But…

Canadian technology takes ocean mapping to new depths

Environment Pat Bouchard wants to make sure each and every species of Coleoptera is properly identified Spending a few years rooting through rotted logs in snake-infested tropical forests on remote Australian mountaintops at night in a quest for…

The beetle scientist on a mission to name the world's most beguiling bugs

What if we could learn a lesson or two in survival from one of the Earth’s weirdest organisms? Lichen in our cities present a powerful metaphor for our biologically troubled times. Symbiosis anyone? The Lipstick Powderhorn stands straight up in the…

Be Like Lichen

Après avoir survécu à cinq empêtrements dans des engins de pêche et à deux collisions avec des navires, Punctuation a connu une fin tragique qui illustre à quel point il sera difficile de protéger les baleines noires de l’extinction. La baleine est…

Vie et mort d’une baleine pas comme les autres

I have a carbon conundrum.
The planet’s scientists told us just last month – again – that we are in a time of climate reckoning. It is “code red for humanity.” Every molecule of carbon dioxide we emit into the atmosphere is too much.
I’ve spent the…

Green-shaming won’t help solve the climate crisis — this is how we can move forward

Once, people who caught fish for a living would consult the sky for signs of storms and then set off in their boats, hoping for the best. Today, they rely on different types of clouds — the ones that store data.
And fishing crews are not the only…

A data revolution is helping to keep workers safe from storms at sea

Not only do marine protected areas safeguard biodiversity, but with nature taking the lead, MPAs boost commercial fisheries and help lock in massive amounts of carbon.
HERE’S A THOUGHT EXPERIMENT.
What if, instead of trying to fix nature, we let…

Time for a Sea Change

I never want this to happen to you. Michael Lewis – the author of Moneyball, The Big Short, The Blind Side, etc – has a terrific podcast called Against the Rules. In a recent episode, Lewis and famous baseball statistician Bill James were discussing…

Moneyball’s Essential Stock Market Lesson

Saving money is a no-brainer. Its benefit is obvious. You have more money! Your bank account grows. Your 401(k) grows. You can retire (potentially early) and do fun things with the savings you’ve built up over time. But there’s a second, hidden…

The Hidden Benefit of Saving Money

You’re seeing Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) in the news. People are comparing it to the Great Financial Crisis in 2008. What’s going on? Let’s talk about Silicon Valley Bank in simple terms. I’m writing this ~2pm EST on Sunday March 12. I will update…

Silicon Valley Bank 101

Outsiders think they know how something works. You know the type. Those armchair experts opining at the Thanksgiving table. The least experienced are the most confident in their knowledge. Insiders actually know how something works. And that, as the…

Great Investors’ Little Secret

Lawrence recently wrote in: Dear Jesse, My wife is 70 and I’m about to turn 70, and we’ve been retired for 8 years, and even with the tough market in 2022, our portfolio is up 40% from when we retired – from ~$3M to $4.2M. But I can’t bring myself to…

Dying with Millions

The McDonald’s Test is a simple way to ask yourself: am I really enjoying the fruits of my labor? While chatting with a client last year, we discussed a vital financial planning topic: spending their retirement savings. It’s challenging for many…

The McDonald’s Test

Retirement math can be complex. Investment returns, Social Security, spending rates, etc. But we’re keeping it simple today. We’re going to cover a basic concept that will allow you to retire decades early. Imagine a married couple with the following…

How to Retire Decades Early

Rochester is home to a dedicated clutch of platform tennis addicts. And you ask: what is platform tennis? Platform tennis (a.k.a. “paddle tennis” or, most often, just “paddle”) is an outdoor-only cold-weather racket sport, played almost exclusively…

The Negative Arts of Money and Paddle

As of October 2022, stocks were down 25% from their previous high. Bonds were down 15% over the same period. A “balanced” 60/40 portfolio was down 21%. It was, by some measure, the worst investing year in a lifetime. But life goes on. What’s happened…

Portfolios Are Up How Much?!?!

Samuel Bolton Jr. was a successful businessman, brewer, politician, and philanthropist in Troy, NY in the late 1800s. Why, then, did Bolton kill himself by diving into a vat of hot beer? He didn’t understand risk. No, not the risk of diving into…

The Investor Who Died In a Vat of Hot Beer

I wish I could run 5 miles a day without the discomfort, the exertion, and the required hour of time. (Yeah, I’m slow). But there’s no such thing as “passive running.” You either run or you don’t. The same goes for a healthy diet. And reading. And…

Don’t Be A Dummy. Be A Chicken.

What happens when you die? Will your soul travel to an ethereal plane? Does your spirit remain on Earth? Or, more simply, does your body decompose from whence it came? Welcome to The Existential Interest, a new blog where I wax philosophical on the…

Estate Planning 101

Investing is all about risk and reward. When investors take more risk, they demand more reward. One such “risk premium” is the concept of illiquidity. Liquid assets are easily converted to cash. Stocks are liquid. You can buy or sell them five days a…

The Easiest Money That Investors Ignore

For you cave-dwellers, Wordle is a word-guessing game where you have six guesses to correctly find a 5-letter word. After each guess, you learn which letters you’ve guessed correctly and if you placed those letters in the right/wrong spot. There are…

Wordle’s Hidden Financial Lesson

All the following inflation data is from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Food at home costs are up 12% year-over-year. This affects you! (Unless you’re a mystical no-food yogi…yikes). We all need to eat. But can we make economical food choices to…

The Secret To Beating Inflation

Math can unlock the world for us. But only if we use it accurately. A quick lesson today on investment performance. Apologies if I end up being soap-boxy. But bad math (especially by experts) ruffles my feathers. To start, it’s high time The Best…

Even “Experts” Measure Stupidly

Another quarter in the books! Every three months, I take a look at my personal finances, share recent news from The Best Interest, and show you more dog pictures. Here are my previous quarterly updates: Why share this info? To brag about money?! No…

Net Worth, Projects, and Dogs – Update Q4 2022

On a recent episode of Freakonomics, author Yuval Noah Harari** said: Viruses exist whether we believe in them or not. Even if you don’t accept the stories about viruses, they can still kill you. Yuval Noah Harari 🚨 This is not an article about…

9 Scientific Facts to Improve Your Finances

My wife’s family lives in Clarence, NY, about 10 miles east of downtown Buffalo. We sat in their house for Christmas as 4 feet of snow and consistent 50-70 mph winds snow-globed the world around us. Buffalo got crushed by this storm. But probably NOT…

A Cold Lesson from the Buffalo Blizzard

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. Robert Frost Most people know Robert Frost’s famous poem, The Road Not Taken. Especially the last few lines, written above. And most people…

Two Roads To Financial Independence

It’s only the start of the third week this year, and I’m looking back at a hectic couple of weeks at work, new school for the older one, farewell to the younger one’s crib, the start of potty training, farewell to my wisdom teeth (and all the fun…

Serendipity, Whimsy, and Funhouse mirrors

I spent the last few days reading Glennon Doyle’s Untamed, and as a listener to her podcast We Can Do Hard Things (okay - as part of her Pod Squad), I was catching up on an episode this morning that ended with the most lovely song by her daughter,…

We can do hard things (or, thoughts about last year and this year)

Maya Angelou writes, “In the flush of love’s light we dare be brave And suddenly we see that love costs all we are and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.” What a beautiful way to capture both how selfish and how selfless the choice…

In the flush of love's light

Photo by Stephen Salpukas from Nruthyarchana, presented two weeks ago. The show’s still up on YouTube if you missed it. This year has been a roller coaster personally, professionally, and artistically. It seems especially apt to pour my swirling…

Reflections

I’m presenting a solo program on Sunday, December 4th at 4 pm Eastern, and I hope you’ll join me for the performance. This is something I’ve been hoping to do for a long time, and seriously working toward for the past year - a show where I get to…

You're Invited - Nruthyarchana

Note: I found this nearly complete draft as I was about to start on a brand new piece, so I’m wrapping this up and posting it. New post to come soon! Yeah, that’s a bit of a clickbait-y title, but really, it also covers what I want to talk about.…

Why I used to hate performing and what *Science* tells me I can do

If I look at the clock, it’s the next day, but in my mind, it’s still Guru Pournami. I’ve had a thought since this morning, and I’m only now able to write it down: It is knowledge that dispels darkness (“gu”, being darkness and “ru” meaning to…

Dispelling Darkness

This year has been moving at a frenetic pace, and I can’t believe it’s nearly June (HELLO trip around the sun #32, you are here FAR too quickly and I’m not ready!) Generally speaking, my favorite approach to cooking is having pots and pans (and the…

Taking a breathe

At the beginning of last year, I wrote this: So, I’m going to dance. I’m going to dance daily. I’m going to be kind to myself as I dance, instead of tearing myself down with harsh self-criticism. But I will not let up, and if it’s a choice between…

Marking the passage of another year

Today is an important day historically. In 1955, Emmett Till, a 14 year old Black boy was lynched and murdered, after being accused of being lewd with a white woman who was selling him candy. (She recanted her testimony decades later). In 1963, on…

Art and Identity: a journey + 2 performances you need to watch

I’m starting a podcast!
I’m starting a podcast with fellow dancer, writer, choreographer, and early aughts music connoisseur Kiran Rajagopalan because he’s awesome and I’m awesome and we want to share our awesomeness with the world.
In all…

An Off the Beat idea

I’m back to talking about rhythm. (Because I can’t not).
During the last couple of months, I had a couple performance experiences that let me revisit my ideas related to it. At the Richmond Dance Festival by Dogtown Dance Theater, my mother was the…

The rippling breath, the beating heart

Photo credit: Bill Sigafoos / Firehouse Theatre
When I was in grad school, in one of my early classes, my professors talked about how the texts tell as that the artist should be like a clear vessel to let the colors of characters through to the…

Fires in the Mirror - A Reflection

For its 18th dance festival, ResiliDance, IDEA harnessed the possibilities of virtual programming by bringing together over 60 speakers and 20 performing groups from India, US, UK & NZ for 24 hours of programming spanning 4 days, as well as 5 films…

ResiliDance - A Review

It’s been a trying few days (weeks? months?) for me, but it’s been art that’s kept me sane and sustained me, and as I look at the crazy few days (weeks? months?) ahead, it’s art, again, that’ll see me through. Sharing that lovely pieces of…

Joyful things

Content warnings: Gun Violence, Murder
Tonight, my heart is aching.
This month, my heart has been aching.
A mass shooting in Atlanta. A mass shooting in Boulder. A car jacking in Washington D.C.. A mass shooting in Virginia Beach. Another shooting in…

Processing the violence.

Last night was closing night of the show The Untethered: Homecoming 2020. A diverse group of alums from across the country - and even internationally! - came together to offer both a performance and their stories, journeys, and wisdom for the…

Empowering Spaces for the Arts

May 7 Fires in the Mirror - A Reflection

When I started writing here, I was at an inflection point in my dance journey. A student of dance and passionate about Kuchipudi for many years, I was trying to convince myself that firstly, I had the satta to be a dancer; secondly, I was trying to…