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2 Dec

Serengeti Mon Amour

In 1971 Shep Abbott and I lived in the Serengeti National Park and made a television film on the life cycle of the Cheetah.  For close to a...

28 Nov

Ollie in Leaves

It’s been a beautiful Fall in New York.  We are now poised at that moment of transition when the auburn colors  gasp before disintegrating...

24 Nov

Meditations #16

Across the wide plains of Argentina and Uruguay, where cattle raising is a way of life, men who work the livestock are called gaucho. The mainstay...

17 Nov

MAD Goes African

The Museum of Arts and Design has opened its Global Africa Project, a blockbuster show of African and African-inspired art and craftwork.  Many...

16 Nov

Another Kind of Travel

You won’t find top 10 lists or tourism board-approved itineraries in this online-only publication. Rather, Nowhere is all about the experience...

12 Nov

The White Light Festival

The White Light Festival, currently in its three-week run at New York’s Lincoln Center, aims to remind audiences of the power music has...

7 Nov

Khodorkovsky’s Impassioned Plea

Let me start by saying, as Cathryn Collins, a friend of mine and the writer, producer and director of Vlast (Power) said at the LAFest where...

3 Nov

Willing Foot: #2

Prague:  10.29.10

1 Nov

Brigitta

I wrote about Brigitta in my last posting on the Serengeti..how Shep and I lived for 18 months in that beautiful land keeping company with a...

31 Oct

Serengeti Highway – Disaster Unfolding

In 1972,  on a street in Nairobi, I met a charming filmmaker who was heading down to the Serengeti to make a film on the life cycle of the Cheetah....

31 Oct

Cartier Art Magazine

I don’t read magazines much anymore.  I would prefer to use my reading time for books – a recent favorite being David Grossman’s...

26 Oct

De Vera

It didn’t surprise me that De Vera and the supremely talented Kathe Williams (see Two Green Witches 9/9/10), had the imagination to design...

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