Brian Watkins is a writer originally from Parker, Colorado. His plays include My Daughter Keeps Our Hammer, The Bison of Kiowa,High Plains, among others. His work for both stage and film has been produced and developed in New York with b. swibel presents, New York International Fringe Festival, Horse Trade Theatre, Wide Eyed Productions, Emerging Artists Theatre, as well as with Route 66 Theatre in Chicago. Brian and his wife live in Brooklyn.
The Hurt Locker is an intelligent expression of the beauty behind the destruction, and the harsh reality in the rubble.
New York’s prophetic public space has found “romance in the ruins.”
How do we transform a space that will maintain its hard-working American grittiness, yet still become the highest standard for urban pedestrian sanctuaries? This will be the question that the city of New York must carefully answer if they are to be the example for the New American City.
For he is a dinosaur.
And I a twenty-something white guy, who can’t imagine a world before cell phones.
Thomas Sadoski and Piper Perabo in a scenefrom Neil LaBute’s reasons to be pretty. Playwright Neil LaBute has always been a master of malice. His plays, filled with the grand intricacies of name-calling and the subtlety of allusive pricks to the heart, are studies on the subterraneous cruelty we have grown accustomed to brandishing against [...]
“Avant-garde” has consistently described Animal Collective’s place in the indie scene, with their bizarrely resonant sounds that meld into corrosive melodies and tribal tones, but they haven’t been coined “accessible” – until now.
If we are, in fact, in store for tougher times, then I take comfort in the resilience of a gridiron jock who won with humility.
Does a lack of belonging breed materialism which leads to neuroticism which leads to paranoia which leads to believing that this downward spiral of material obsession will continue and Steve Jobs will eventually create a troop of iPod robots so sleek and desirable that they will seduce us into being their slaves?
If there is an equation for good community, I think it goes something like this: people + nature + moderate amounts of alcohol – television = good.