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“Creative Resilience” by Erica Ginsberg, A Book for All Artists

The Marlowsphere (Blog #160) Once in a while you pick up a book, start reading...
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Charlie Smalls Remembered

The Marlowsphere (Blog #159) The Broadway-bound revival of “The Wiz,” a re-telling of the 1900...
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In Recovery from the Pandemic – APAP 2024 Faces: Familiar, New & Absent

Every year in mid-January the Association of Performing Arts Professionals (APAP) hosts a multi-day conference...
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Syurpriz! 100 Years of Russian Jazz: The Documentary

The Marlowsphere (Blog #157) When it comes to documentaries where the subject is jazz, the...

Anruo Cheng’s “She Says | 她说”: An Anti-Violence Against Women Contemporary Protest Song

Marlowsphere (Blog #156) Music serves many functions in society and can be found in almost...

Part II: “It’s Suffocating” When Young Women from South East Asia Hit A Cultural Wall

Marlowsphere (Blog #155) In Part I of this blog (posted last week), Female Student (FS)...

Part I: “It’s Suffocating” When Young Women From South East Asia Hit A Cultural Wall

Marlowsphere (Blog #154) Question:  What happens when a young person, especially a young female person...

Update: The Max Borak Story

Marlowsphere (Blog #153) This is a follow up to my 2016 blog “Kids + Jazz...

A Guide to “Zoomiquette”

Marlowsphere (Blog #152) In the early days of the World Wide Web (introduced to the...

How Old is Multimedia?

The Marlowsphere (Blog #149) It is a truism that laws more often than not lag...