World Arts Review

David Butler | Just Imagine - coding just for fun by Douglas Messerli Buddy DeSylva, Lew Brown, and Ray Henderson (book, music, and lyrics), David Butler (director) *Just Imagine */ ...

Douglas Messerli | How to Explain the Misfortune (on Jean-Jacques Viton) - how to explain the misfortune This morning I awake to hear the news that French poet Jean-Jacques Viton had died (born in Paris in 1933), dying apparentl...

Douglas Messerli | "Sudden a Vista Peeps" (on Tyshawn Sorey's "Death" based on a poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar) - sudden a vista peeps by Douglas Messerli Tyshawn Sorey (composer, based on a poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar), Nadia Hallgren (director) *Death */ 2021 Al...

Douglas Messerli | "A Man of Many Masks" (on Elsa Flores Almaraz and Richard Montoya's film Carlos Almaraz: Playing with Fire) - a man of many masks Elsa Flores Almaraz and Richard Montoya (writers and directors) *Carlos Almaraz: Playing with Fire */ 2019 In reviewing the LGBTQ...

Douglas Messerli | "The Missing" (on Don Skiles' Across the Street fromt he Ordinary) - the missing by Douglas Messerli Don Skiles *Across the Street from the Ordinary *(Claremont, California: Pelekinesis,2020) A blurb for Don Skiles’ previo...

Douglas Messrli | Robert Hunter: Poet - robert hunter: poet by Douglas Messerli Yesterday, for the first time I listened to three songs by The Grateful Dead, “Scarlet Begonias,” “China Cat Sunfl...