I wrote the original in 2002, and it was published in Goldsmith University Centre for Urban and Community Research Newsletter, Street Signs. Spring 2003  Vol...

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/06/nyregion/pizza-delivery-ice-deportation.html?emc=edit_th_180607&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=112668000607 Pablo Villavicencio C...

My 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 exhibit. https://docs.go...

"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 they owe their power....

https://www.americantheatre.org/2017/07/21/director-educator-activist-steven-kent-1943-2017/

September 2016 (published in Contemporary Theatre Review Backpages 27.2 July 2017) In my high school theatre classes, we enjoyed riffing on Edward Albee’s Wh...

How do we stop the rolling disaster of the Republican takeover? If we want to indulge in Marxist fantasies about letting the entire corrupt system fall apart...

Friends and colleagues are considering converging on Washington, D.C. to protest the Trumping of America, with corollary protests across the country. What if...

What 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 family. And for som...

The presidential candidates go car shopping: Ted Cruz: The failed policies of the past have led us to this lot. Look at all these beautiful creatures, waitin...

Read Joan Grillo’s “Mexico’s New Blood Politics” (New York Times Sunday Review 1/17/16) and substitute the drug cartels of Mexico with the corporate barons o...

1/17/16 What I heard and felt from the Demo debate tonight: Flashback to my youth, when debates were less about grandstanding and more about clarifying vital...

I 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 end, like the right...

Someday, someone wearing a police uniform will put you in fear for your life. Yet it is assumed this will not happen to those Americans who look like me, a w...

1/19/15 Martin Luther King Day, Phoenix, Arizona It’s perhaps perverse, or entirely appropriate, to spend three hours on the afternoon of Martin Luther King ...

Leave a reply December 2014 Phoenix, Arizona I awake these mornings to thoughts of what I have been taught to describe as blackness, darkness, a void where f...

Summer 2014 When one lives in a city surrounded by water, this essential element often flows unnoticed until announcing itself by either performing tricks or...