Intent on conveying powerful messages, movies often will contain shocking scenes to evoke strong emotional reactions from the audience. Martin Sherman's "Bent" could not have been any more explicit in displaying horrifying, and not necessarily violent, visuals that make one want to curl up in a fetal position on your seat by the end.
Brilliant 'Bent' offers skewed view of Holocaust
In Betsy Sholl's poetry her concrete images and stories, for all their tightness, have more questions asked in the poem's telling than are answered.
Tonight, Sholl will read from her fifth book of poetry "Don't Explain," winner of the Felix Pollak Prize. As judge Rita Dove explained, Sholl's "revelation unfolds effortlessly. These poems are what narrative can aspire to... and yet the charm of the anecdotes .
Sholl reads unexpected 'Explain'
Imagine a diverse amalgam of chemically induced 20-year-old rockers, a nervous 40-something violin-playing geek and a blind 60-year-old black Detroit native, playing songs that cross the lines of blues, bluegrass and improv-rock. These were the sights that complemented the sounds of Leftover Salmon at The Magic Bag theatre on Sunday night.
Salmon spawns warmed-over show
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