Blog – Page 22 – Culture Matters

“When I make a movie, all I think about is the profit”: Alec Baldwin’s Magic Bullet

31 January 2024 / 420

Dennis Broe explains how profit-making has cut corners in movie-making, especially since the pandemic. Image above: Grizzled outlaw Alec Baldwin One of the more hilarious moments of the... Continue reading

Dennis Broe

Poetry

Black Square

30 January 2024 / 393

Black Square by Mark A. Murphy The square is not a subconscious form. The square is a living, regal infant. – Kasimir Malevich i Velásquez knows all... Continue reading

Mark A. Murphy

Poetry

Parcel

28 January 2024 / 430

Parcel by Philip Berry Paper softens, a damp corner Torn in the violence of lost yearsLifted to a sinister eyeSees night within, doubts clustered Weightless calculations bentBy... Continue reading

Philip Berry

Cultural Commentary

Vienna: city of contrasts and contradictions

26 January 2024 / 908

Dennis Broe gives us a brief tour of Vienna: its history, museums and galleries. Above image: the restored Wien Museum, site of a city grappling with its... Continue reading

Dennis Broe

Poetry

Happy birthday Robert Burns!

25 January 2024 / 391

Here’s tae the man’s life –its drivin root, its rise, its faur reach –and tae the great hairst he gather’d in! Here’s tae the wark –the high... Continue reading

David Betteridge

Poetry

If Jesus came again she’d be born a Palestinian

25 January 2024 / 352

If Jesus came again she’d be born a Palestinian by Janet Hatherley toddle amongst the grass rootsof her people. Like them her existencewould not be recognised by... Continue reading

mojohand

Poetry

Disturbing Blacks in Custody

24 January 2024 / 391

Disturbing Blacks in Custody by Jenny Mitchell One by one, I free them from the cells,trudging back to pick up bodies in torn clothes, placed screaming in... Continue reading

Jenny Mitchell

Poetry

Labour, 2024

24 January 2024 / 351

Labour, 2024 by Steven Taylor We’re already killing Houthis With lawful explanationsThey needed showingThat we mean business Labour is agreeable. Complicit The shipping lanes are sacrosanctLike pilgrim... Continue reading

Steven Taylor

Music

The John Maclean Centenary Concert

24 January 2024 / 491

Celtic Connections put on a wonderful concert recently, in memory of Scotland’s great Marxist revolutionary, John Maclean (1879 -1923). Glasgow’s magnificent concert hall had the 2,000 strong audience... Continue reading

Jim Aitken

Poetry

Comrades in Alms

22 January 2024 / 395

Comrades in Alms by Chrissie Roberts Relentless live-streamed death Revulsion at the West’s collusion And we stand And we march And we postAnd we shareIn our powerlessness.... Continue reading

Chrissie Roberts

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