“While one of them was on display at Art Basel in Miami, it was untaped, peeled and eaten by a Georgian performance artist, who told the press, ‘I am a hungry artist, and I am hungry for new interactions.’”

Art Goes Bananas, The Perfect Couple, The Royal Shakespeare Company’s Pericles, Leonardo on PBS, Schubert’s Die Nacht.

“In Our Town’s portrait of ‘the life of a village against the life of the stars,’ as Wilder described it, the monumental is always expressed in the miniature, and the miniature is always crushed by the monument.” —Jesse Green

Musical Journey, Wilder’s Our Town, Willa’s Winter, Somebody Somewhere, Euclid phones home.

“Snow from an early snowstorm still lingered in the shade and at high elevations when we arrived a couple of weeks ago. But the occasional patches of white didn’t detract from the vibrant palette of Albuquerque, Santa Fe, and Taos. The sky seemed bluer, the houses earthier, the food and clothing more colorful.”

Southwest Colors, The Silk Road Ensemble’s American Railroad, Dark Winds, “Someday We'll All Be Free,” Sunset on the Rio Grande.

“Hate's goin' 'round/Breaking many hearts/Stop it please/
Before it's gone too far.” —Stevie Wonder

America/Stevie Wonder at Fiserv/The Moors/Cesaria Evora/”Try to Praise the Mutilated World”

“After a considered, self-reflective pause, I stared down at that new shiny screen, darkly reflecting my suspicious gaze. ‘Thanks a lot, Mr. Jobs. That’s why I never became a best-selling, critically acclaimed novelist! Curse you and all your Silicon Valley minions!’”

iPhone Therefore I Am, Roy Wood, Jr., Book It, Sense and Sensibility, Metheny’s Meditations.