‘No Kings’ marchers in Manhattan, March 28, 2026
The People Marched
Baghdad Bob in Drag
When Sycophancy Is a Feature Not a Bug
‘President Trump has been right about everything.” — White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt. (This is old news by now, but the staff felt an obligation to memorialize it.)
Reboot Your Eyeballs
It’s food for the retina.
Unmasked
It’s Banksy’s World . . . But Not Officially
The museum in Lisbon, Portugal, showcases 100 reproductions of Banksy’s artwork through video, installations, graffiti, canvases, projections, and murals.
Visual Culture Taking a Break
Buster Keaton has an idea about that..
He Was a No-Show at the Academy Awards But …
. . . somehow he turned up in this collage.
Bernie Sanders Has an AI Proposal
He’s been called a luddite. But he rejects that and says he is calling for a moratorium on building new AI data centers because he is concerned about an existential threat to humankind.
Days of Judgment
Poems and Drawings That Speak for Themselves
New from Moloko Print — ‘Days of Judgment’ by Mark Terrill with drawings by Gerard Bellaart.
It Looks Like Spring Has Come, But Don’t Be Fooled
Two days of suddenly warm weather here in New York City brought a poem to mind, though it’s really too early to think about it.
Looking Back at NYC with Nostalgia and Dismay
In a newly recorded video, three noted writers look back at their experience of New York City with nostalgic affection — and, it must be said, with considerable dismay — from their vantage points in Switzerland and Germany.
Swiss Composer-Musician-Videographer Takes a Bow
They’re celebrating Steff Signer’s 75th birthday at the Palace tonight in St. Gallen, Switzerland.
Paul Zelevansky’s Absurdist Tale of ‘Monkey & Man’
It began as a performance piece. That was a long time ago . . . 1985, to be precise, in Brooklyn. The author presented Individual stories as performances and installations. The texts also began appearing in little magazines.
Just Because . . .
. . . Trumpscheisse has repeatedly threatened to revoke Rosie O’Donnell’s U.S. citizenship (pairing her with Robert De Niro), the staff thought this worth posting.
Robert Nichols’s Indelible Railroad Poems Back in Print
Just received a masterly bilingual edition in English and German of “Slow Newsreel of Man Riding Train” by Robert Nichols. It is the latest in Stadtlichter Presse’s bilingual Heartbeats series devoted to American poets of the Beat generation.
THE BLACK SCHOONER
Amistad Slave Rebellion Retold in New Graphic Novel
Before Black History Month runs out, let’s note that David Lester has a new graphic novel in the works: THE BLACK SCHOONER. “It tells the true story of the 1839 uprising aboard the Amistad,” Lester says, and is one of a “growing number of titles depicting history from below.”
Peter Mathiessen Had Many Eagle-Eyed Identities
Among them were novelist, naturalist, fisherman, CIA spy.
AI Is Working on It
Do you remember January 6?