“Helen Levitt’s pictures haunt like intimate ghosts – ever present, never forceful, curious, receptive.”
Beneath the Streets — Helen Levitt’s Subway Photographs
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The ANEW Artists’ Alliance Third Annual Group Show
“When you find other people who like to do what you like to do and have the same visions, you want to be with them. You feel like you’re doing something worthwhile.” – Emery Williams
The Taste of Memory
The liner notes of Jimmy Smith’s Home Cooking describe a certain song as a series of blue truths. And here we are, all exploring our blue truths. All of us turning to music and art and literature for comfort when those truths become too blue.
February Issue, 2024
All of the articles from the past month for people who like to savor their magpies’ tidings as an issue.
Letter from the Editor: February 2024
Some thoughts on a broken clock.
An Anchored Friendship
Listen to this neo-noir short story that features the Iowa State Police, a displaced bounty hunter, a broken farmer, and his local cop acquaintance caught in a Mexican stand-off in a gasoline-soaked corn field.
Magpies Mix Tape: Wha’ppen?
Wha, man? Wha’ppen?
Female
Some thoughts on Female, a pre-code film starring Ruth Chatterton.
Inside the Camera Obscura: An Interview with Michele FariNelly
“It’s art to cook, garden, dance, sing, play an instrument, and compose music. It’s art to create clothes from a piece of fabric or to “see” a piece of furniture within a pile of wood. If we have the chance to imprint our stylistic signature in what we do, we are present in the works produced, despite our absence.”
My Shadow is Freezing: Winter Poems from Matsuo Basho
these cold winter days
on horseback
— my shadow is frozen
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