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Holidays 2023
We get it. Not everyone digs the holidays. I kinda don’t. The biggest reason is probably that my family buried our 63-year-young father on...
A Joyful Message
Since its premiere off-Broadway in 1961, Langston Hughes’ Black Nativity has only grown in popularity, first as a song-driven play based on the poet’s...
The 2023 Turkey Awards
Dig In
Everyone makes mistakes, but the antics we point out in this issue aren’t just slipups. Most of them have been committed by bad...
Hush, Dears
Keller’s South Main Street is bustling these days. The lively mix of cafes, bars, restaurants, and retailers is well worth the modest 30-minute hop...
Feats of Clay Stinnett
I don’t know how else to put this: Making sense of Clay Stinnett’s paintings in his solo show Honky Tonk Lagoon at Fort Works Art...
Mapping Time and Space
“War Horse in Babylon” captures a horrifying scene. The large oil painting by Jaune Quick-to-See Smith centers on the gray silhouette of the animal...
Nightmare on East Lancaster
Dressed in black with skeleton masks and Victorian-era top hats, the two dozen members of the Cutting Edge Drumline launched into a tightknit performance...
Texas-Sized Horror
In the beginning, there was only darkness.
Then everybody’s favorite therapeutic apparition said, Let there be light.
“Well,” He continued under His breath, “besides all the...
Best Of 2023
Welcome to Best of 2023
Thank you, dear readers, for picking up or surfing to our 27th annual Best Of issue. We hope you find it...
Escape to Reality
The works of Western artists have long oscillated between escapism and the minutiae of daily life. While the otherworldly paintings of Salvador Dali and...
