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The weekend is young, and I’m feeling partial to patty melts and Bloody Marys (with gobs of horseradish,
por please). I’m
Carolina A. Miranda, arts and urban design columnist at the Los Angeles Times, with the week’s essential culture news and chihuahua imitators.
Our cartoon avatars
The
cartoon is endlessly malleable, able to serve as a staple of children’s programming even as it questions gender norms (e.g. Bugs Bunny) or functions as a proponent of U.S. foreign policy (may I introduce you to U.S. soft power ambassador Donald Duck?).
Artist
Paul Pescador is interested in cartoons for those reasons but for many others, too: their saturated color, their emotionality cartoons are pure melodrama and their ability to render bodies in inventive ways. “There is no more abstract version of the body than the cartoon,” says Pescador. “You shift a pencil line and you make something more curved, and you make it more feminine. It can make this remarkable c
New Books by NER Authors
It’s been a busy publication month for
NER authors! Emily Pittinos, published in
NER40.1, released her debut book of poems, The Last Unkillable Thing (University of Iowa Press), a compilation of tender reflections both elegiac and ecological rooted in the domestic and natural worlds.
Essayist, poet, and pie lady Kate Lebo recently published
The Book of Difficult Fruit (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), a collection of twenty-six lyrical essays (with recipes) centered on fruit, giving “insights into relationships, self-care, land stewardship, medical and botanical history, and so much more.” Her essays have appeared in
Jehanne Dubrow’s
Craft Recordings and Concord Theatricals have announced that the 2021 GRAMMY Award nominee for Best Musical Theater Album, AMÉLIE ORIGINAL LONDON CAST RECORDING, is now available on physical CD!
Broadway Records announced today the release of IN PIECES, a new musical by Joey Contreras. With 10 tracks, this highlights recording features performances by David Archuleta, Andrew Barth Feldman, George Salazar, Solea Pfeiffer, Ben Fankhauser, Natalie Weiss, Ashley De La Rosa, Leslie Hiatt and Emily Kristen Morris.
The Story Pirates will release their fourth full-length album, The Strawberry Band, on April 9th, and DJ Squirm-a-Lot is throwing a huge party on Zoom the night before, which is Thursday, April 8th at 7 pm EST, 6 pm CST, 4 pm PST.