LA BESTIA: SWEET MOTHER

Tom Block on the Knife’s Edge Between Creation and Destruction Kizoa slideshow: Tom Block – Slideshow Through my nearly three decades as a playwright, author and artist, I have thought deeply about human origins.  That moment when Being flared from nothingness.  The LABA Fellowship has provided a vessel within which to create a specific work

THE NIGHTWATCHER

Nadav Lev on Life in the Children’s House   Share    Come see Lev perform a brand-new work inspired by the nightwathers of his youth on 1/25 at the 14th Street Y. I was raised on kibbutz in central Israel where I lived, until age 11, in a communal lodging area known as the beit ha’yeladim (children’s

WAIT, WAS EVE HAPPY ABOUT THE EXPULSION?

Elissa Strauss on the Majesty of Making Babies  Lucas Cranach Share  For so long, I took their word for it. Eve — the world’s first woman according to the creation myth of Abrahamic religions — messed up. Her punishment, two-fold. One, she was kicked out of Eden, sweet Eden, where she spent her days sauntering around naked, no shame

SEX, DEATH AND, WHAT ELSE, MOTHERHOOD

Ruby Namdar on Why We Hate Thinking About Our Mothers Having Sex      “Maternal Affection” by Edward Hodges Baily (1788-1861) Share  How ironic is it that Eve, mother of all living things, is also associated with death and mortality? In the book of Genesis, Eve is portrayed as the weak moral link, the one