by Pier Marton | Feb 9, 2012 | Antisemitism, Books, Death, Ego, Film, France, Humor, Jewish, Juif, Politics, Review, Shoah, Spectacle, STL, Theater, Wars, Women
At The Tivoli Theater in St. Louis for one more week… My review: “Civilization is what makes you sick.” – Paul Gauguin Some people profess to teach the humanities, others purport to have become specialists in civility, teaching and publishing...
by Pier Marton | Feb 8, 2012 | Antisemitism, Care, Death, Ego, History, Human Rights, Jewish, Judaism, Magyar, Middle-East, Native, Politics, Racism, Shoah, Time, Wars, Women
My friend Pini’s mother in the Los Angeles Jewish Journal: Greti was soon banned from school. Some nights, Nazis pounded on the family’s apartment door, forcing them outside, on hands and knees, with a bucket and brush… … Greti dashed across the...
by Pier Marton | Feb 2, 2012 | Afri, Antisemitism, Art, Books, Cam, Death, Doc, Jewish, Magyar, Native, Photo, Politics, Quotes, Racism, Shoah, Wars, Women
New Yorker Magazine: Where There’s a Will – The rise of Leni Riefenstahl by Judith Thurman … Riefenstahl appeals to her friend and admirer Julius Streicher, the editor of Der Stürmer and the most fanatic anti-Semite in a crowded field (he was hanged for...
by Pier Marton | Jan 26, 2012 | Antisemitism, Care, Dance, Jewish, Juif, Music, Poet, Racism, Shoah, Theater, Wars
Wikipedia: Born into a Jewish family in Bulgaria, Sofia, Weissenberg began taking piano lessons at the age of three from Pancho Vladigerov, a Bulgarian composer. He gave his first public performance at the age of eight. In 1941, he and his mother tried to escape from...
by Pier Marton | Jan 18, 2012 | Antisemitism, Death, Doc, History, Human Rights, Jewish, Media, Politics, Racism, Review, Roma, Shoah, STL, Time, Wars, Women
The outstanding film that was produced in 1948 by Stuart Schulberg (with Pare Lorentz) yet never screened in the US until NOW! A time to remember Whitney Harris’s work (cf. below). My review: TO LIVE WITH AN OPEN HEART (and eyes/ears) so that today may have a...
by Pier Marton | Dec 30, 2011 | Afri, Asia, Books, Ego, France, Highlights, Humor, Ideas, Idées, Jewish, Judaism, Middle-East, Poet, Quotes, Software, Sound, Spectacle, Teach, Text, Time, Wars, Women
[UPDATED HERE WITH THE EXTENSIVE SCHOOL OF NO MEDIA COLLECTION] Besides Crane, Eco and quite a few others available on this blog under the “Quotes” category, these are quotes I have used in the past, either on my office door or as part of my signature: • ...