jeffmcmAug 13, 20185 minAt RestI wrote the original in 2002, and it was published in Goldsmith University Centre for Urban and Community Research Newsletter, Street...
jeffmcmJun 7, 20182 minEating the Lawhttps://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/06/nyregion/pizza-delivery-ice-deportation.html?emc=edit_th_180607&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=112668000607...
jeffmcmMar 23, 20181 minMy drawing of Westside Piers NYC 1980's in talk at MOMAMy drawing of NYC Westside piers circa 1981 included in a talk done at MOMA March 22, 2018 by Travis Chamberlain, as part of Club 57...
jeffmcmOct 30, 20171 minAn explanation of the Trump effect"Men believe in the truth of all that is seen to be strongly believed. In all great deceivers, a remarkable process is at work to which...
jeffmcmAug 1, 20171 minMy obituary for my friend and colleague, director Steven Kenthttps://www.americantheatre.org/2017/07/21/director-educator-activist-steven-kent-1943-2017/
jeffmcmJul 20, 20178 minNot Afraid: Upon hearing of Edward Albee’s death at 88September 2016 (published in Contemporary Theatre Review Backpages 27.2 July 2017) In my high school theatre classes, we enjoyed riffing...
jeffmcmJan 16, 20172 minIllusory IntersectionsHow do we stop the rolling disaster of the Republican takeover? If we want to indulge in Marxist fantasies about letting the entire...
jeffmcmJan 12, 20171 minInaugural ProtestsFriends and colleagues are considering converging on Washington, D.C. to protest the Trumping of America, with corollary protests across...
jeffmcmDec 29, 20169 minThe End of the Year End is NearWhat others see as a “revolution” I see as a wrecking ball (both meanings) swinging in and around my home where I huddle with friends and...
jeffmcmFeb 28, 20165 minThe Candidates Go Car ShoppingThe presidential candidates go car shopping: Ted Cruz: The failed policies of the past have led us to this lot. Look at all these...
jeffmcmJan 20, 20161 minCartels and UsRead Joan Grillo’s “Mexico’s New Blood Politics” (New York Times Sunday Review 1/17/16) and substitute the drug cartels of Mexico with...
jeffmcmJan 19, 20163 minThe Democrat Debate January 17, 20161/17/16 What I heard and felt from the Demo debate tonight: Flashback to my youth, when debates were less about grandstanding and more...
jeffmcmNov 7, 201515 minA COUPLE OF SEASONS AT THE CENTURY’S ENDI wrote this towards the end of the 1990's, a long time ago. Never been published, and it seems to me, as this summer comes gasping to an...
jeffmcmApr 18, 20157 minOfficer DownSomeday, someone wearing a police uniform will put you in fear for your life. Yet it is assumed this will not happen to those Americans...
jeffmcmJan 25, 20152 minThe National Gallery1/19/15 Martin Luther King Day, Phoenix, Arizona It’s perhaps perverse, or entirely appropriate, to spend three hours on the afternoon of...
jeffmcmDec 19, 20145 minDarkness Divisible: Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and too many othersLeave a reply December 2014 Phoenix, Arizona I awake these mornings to thoughts of what I have been taught to describe as blackness,...
jeffmcmAug 6, 20144 minTHE NATIONAL 9/11 MEMORIAL IN NEW YORK CITYSummer 2014 When one lives in a city surrounded by water, this essential element often flows unnoticed until announcing itself by either...