The Whole Gritty City

The CBS network premier of The Whole Gritty City by Richard Barber and Andre Lambertson tonight survived the remade-for -TV cuts to commercial-after-commercial to reach that audience beyond ‘people like us’ to people who really need to know; the politicians and parents who wistfully aver to arts education as useless in their technocratic promised land. […]

From a work-in-progress: A Libertine’s Library

In Memorium: Steven Grant Kramer, 1953-2013.

“How do, you do, Missus Willlley?”  It is Ernest T. Bass’s doo-wop in Steven’s voice come from ethernity to wish me Happy Anniversary and in my mind’s car I’m driven to that mythical place, our Mayberry, a Coconino County outside-a Raleigh, an Enchanted Mesa just past Mt. Pilot, second star to the right, where everyone […]