There are a great many reasons why one should completely ignore “hype”.  First of all, it is this writer’s opinion, that Hype holds a gentle hand with Hysteria (ok, let’s be fair, it’s usually squeezing fingers into purple oblivion).  Hysterics rarely lead anywhere rosy, even if the healthy pump of fight or flight possessed well-intentioned roots.  So.  While the multitudes shake off a Hunger Games hangover this weekend, save your sanity for Monday.  Why Monday?  Because Monday night is your monthly dose of Penguin Poetry Pandemoni

I can only imagine how difficult it must be to capture the visual attention of people living in NYC.  This is the birthplace of overstimulation where eye candy is as plentiful as Willy Wonka’s factory. However, when a 30-ft golden replica of Michelangelo's David goes touring through the city on a lowboy trailer people have to notice.

The first month of the New Year is winding to a sleepy-eyed close; most folks have long since shook the Holiday hangover and found solace in the quiet lull following a freshly-minted year. But let us not grow bland as we settle into a comfortable grind! After a healthy Holiday hibernation, Sarabande Books’ 21c Reading Series is bright-eyed, bushy-tailed and ready to spice up your Monday nights once more. The 2012 series premiere starts tonight at 7:30pm, and poets H.L.

What is your identity?  For many of us this is a loaded – and perhaps very sensitive – question.  Humans construct their individual senses of Self from a myriad of different places and experiences.  We all have very unique feelings about the structure and meaning of a person’s distinctive identity; definitions are hazy at best.  In the case of 21c’s current art exhibition, Cuba Now, the idea of cultural identity takes center stage.