Category Archives: Art

# 4 Nude / Kurt Kauper

April 3, 2022 – 1:53 pm

The most famous photo of Bobby Orr was of his scoring the winning goal in the 1970 Stanley Cup Championship against the St. Louis Blues. The immortal moment has also been immortalized in a statue gracing the entrance to the TD Garden in Boston, however an artist friend had told me about the painter Kurt […]

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THE PRICE OF PURITY by Peter Nolan Smith

February 10, 2022 – 1:03 am

Ten years ago during the monsoon season a biblical deluge swept the sois of Pattaya. refuge from an early evening deluge in a very ordinary beer bar off Pattaya’s Soi Excite. I parked my motor scooter under an awning a very ordinary beer bar off Soi Excite and scooted for shelter. The rain cascaded off […]

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New Ancient Cave Paintings

February 9, 2022 – 1:20 pm

45,000 years ago ice sheets covered the polar regions and mountain tops of the world. Human population during this glacial period has been calculated to have been in the tens or thousands, if not even less. According to pre-historians, as the Ice Cap retreated, Homo Sapiens gained the upper hand on the Neanderthals and dominated […]

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GLITTER GULCH by Jane Dickson

November 14, 2021 – 1:46 am

The Last Days of Babylon July 12, 2013 Throughout 70s and 80s NYPD Police and city authorities had designated Times Square to be DMZ for crime and sex and the neighborhood swiftly became a haven for XXX theaters, go-go girls, pimps, whore houses, rent boys, hustlers, thieves, dealers, and lowlifes on the make. The 1977 […]

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Deja Vu From Holyoke

October 19, 2021 – 11:49 am

Several years ago I visited Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts for the first time in decades. My sister, her husband, and daughter slowly inspected each and every painting, while I sought out Northeast classics such as Fitz Hugh Lane’s OWL’S HEAD, Winslow Homer’s THE FOG, and Childe Hassam’s BOSTON COMMONS AT SUNSET. I have admired […]

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