On Dylan’s “John Wesley Harding” and Fortune’s Wheel Stephen Hazan Arnoff Share John Wesley Harding may have been Bob Dylan’s most highly anticipated album ever. Released in 1967 at the end of twenty months of public silence that included a motorcycle crash, it was also the most stylistically unexpected work of Dylan’s career. The album featured
Why do we waste our time with charity when we could be doing justice? by Sarah Seltzer Share During the bitter cold weeks that came in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, the stark income divide in New York City was held to the light of media scrutiny as it hadn’t been for years. Certainly, nature
TO RECEIVE A ONE OF A KIND MIX PLEASE CONTACT JOSHUA AT: [email protected] INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING: NAME FAVORITE MOMENT OF YOUR LIFE (DOESN’T HAVE TO BE THE FAVORITE) LOCATION YOU LIVED IN THE LONGEST A SINGLE IMAGE FOUND BY USING GOOGLE IMAGE SEARCH (NO JUDGMENTS HERE – ANY IMAGE YOU WANT) A SHORT DESCRIPTION OF THE LAST MEAL YOU ATE
A list of what is really at stake at the dinner table by Elissa Strauss Over dinner the other night my husband told me about a slightly awkward business lunch he had that day. He was out with some higher-ups from a big financial firm at one of Manhattan’s
A Commentary on Leviticus 19 by Ruby Namdar Share 9 And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy harvest. 10 And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather every grape of thy vineyard;
A writer searches for someone to eat with by Diana Spechler Our first night in town, we went out for sushi. When we sat at the bar, the chef introduced himself and showed us his knife. His name was Jack. His knife was beautiful, sharp, the blade engraved with Japanese letters. Or maybe they
On the Interesection of Food and Power in Dylan’s Desire and Genesis 27 By Stephen Hazan Arnoff Share Like desire itself, Bob Dylan’s album of the same name carries more than it can handle. Desire traverses climates of stifling heat as well as the cold of “pyramids all embedded in ice.” It pulses with violence
A new song about an old problem by Clare Burson http://yourlisten.com/LABA/share-share-share Share Not having read or thought much about the story of Jacob and Esau since I was 9 or 10 years old, re-reading the story now, as an adult and as a mother, I was struck most by what terrible parenting Isaac and Rebecca exhibit in
On censored comics and the werewolves of Canaan By Eli Valley Share Like the Bible, comics are twisted dreamscapes. For a time, these dreamscapes were pure, kinetic visual passion, unbound by rules of propriety. Then, in 1954, after ceaseless harassment by government and church leaders outraged over comics’ often horrific, violent and even politically subversive content, the industry
A Modern Rebecca Confesses By Sarah Seltzer When I re-read the story of Jacob and Esau with LABA and realized that its denouement was Jacob’s exile from his family, from his own mother, I was shocked. I thought it might be fun to re-imagine her scheming with another layer