My WEEKEND RUBRICS have now posted at SES/SUMS IT UP. I celebrate some August 1st birthdays. Check them out. Thanks.
WEEKEND RUBRICS: 8/1/26
Happy Birthday to Herman Melville and Two Others on this First Day of August
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My latest PILGRIM’S PROGRESS gallery of images and observations from Tangier are now up at SE/SUMS IT UP. Check the out. Thanks.
PILGRIM'S PROGRESS: 7/30/26
A GALLERY OF MY LIFE IN TANGIER
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MY latest SES/SUMS IT UP column is a conversation with Kathryn Grody about her new one-person play, Palestinian rights, navigating transgender issues as a feminist, aging, string theory & parallel realities, her brother who was a Buddhist monk, and her first date with husband Mandy Patinkin.
SPECIAL EDITION: 7/25/26
A CONVERSATION WITH KATHRYN GRODY
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My WEEKEND RUBRICS are now up at SES/SUMS IT UP. This edition is about three female sculptors from Santa Fe, New Mexico. Check it out. Thanks.
WEEKEND RUBRICS: 7/19/26
THREE FEMALE SANTA FE SCULPTORS
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I GUESS YOU’LL HAVE TO CHECK OUT THE LATEST COLUMN TO SEE WHO IS IN THAT PHOTO WITH ME. I WRITE A LOT ABOUT THE JULY 4TH PRODUCTION OF “DAMES AT SEA” HERE IN TANGIER. BUT A FEW OTHER THINGS AS WELL. CLICK ON THE LINK. THANKS.
PILGRIM'S PROGRESS: 7/16/26
TANGIER and PROVINCETOWN
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My latest LETTER FROM TANGIER is now up at SES/SUMS IT UP. Its subhead is “Passports, Platner, and Appropriation - or, Reconnecting with ‘The Angel’ and Dealing (in the Maine) with Other People's Demons While Denying One's Own.” Check it out. Thanks.
LETTER FROM TANGIER: 7/11/26
Passports, Platner, and Appropriation - or, Reconnecting with "The Angel" and Dealing (in the Maine) with Other People's Demons While Denying One's Own
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My latest PILGRIM’S PROGRESS at SES/SUMS IT UP is now up. It’s about my last few days in Ptown and my first few in Tangier. Check it out. Thanks so much.
PILGRIM'S PROGRESS: 7/4/26
My Last June Days in Provincetown and My First Few July Ones in Tangier
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My latest SES/SUMS IT UP column. Check it out. Thanks.
LETTER FROM NYC AND PTOWN: 6/24/26
Theatre and Poets and America
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My WEEKEND RUBRICS are now up at SES/SUMS IT UP. This week they are titled “Michelle and Michel and Michelle.” Check it out. Thanks.
WEEKEND RUBRICS: 6/20/26
Michelle and Michel and Michelle
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My latest PILGRIM’S PROGRESS gallery and captions is now up at SES/SUMS IT UP. It’s about my first few days in Ptown having arrived for its international film festival. But as always it’s a little bit about lots of stuff. Check it out. Thanks.
PILGRIM'S PROGRESS: 6/17/26 *
A Gallery of My Life These First Few Days in Provincetown
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David Hockney died yesterday. Today I remember him. I loved the guy.
"BEAUTIFUL, THRILLING, & MYSTERIOUS"
David Hockney Said That If You See the World That Way, Then You Feel Quite Alive; Dear David Lived a Quite-Alive Life. I Loved the Guy.
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My lastest PILGRIM’S PROGRESS gallery and captions is up at SES/SUMS IT UP. It’s about my last ten days in NYC. Check it out. Thanks.
PILGRIM'S PROGRESS: 6/10/26
A Gallery of My Life in NYC the Last Ten Days
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The WEEKEND RUBRICS are now up at ~SES/SUMS IT UP. I’m in NYC right now so how could they not be about basketball - although I did go to a Yankees game today. Check them out. Thanks.
WEEKEND RUBRICS: 6/7/26
Walt "Clyde" Frazier - And How Basketball Ties In to the 1973 Oscars and the 1973 Tonys, The Year which Was the Last Time the Knicks Won a Championship. Because ... You Know ... Everything Connects.
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My first LETTER from New York is a bit of a one-off because I had to write about my travel day from hell when I flew here from Berlin and arrived five hours late. But I managed yet again to make it about something else and learn the lesson it didn’t know it was teaching me. Check it out. Thanks
LETTER FROM (THE MISSISSIPPI) DELTA: 6/2/26
Another One-Off Missive, This One about My Travel Day from Hell with Some Messages from Heaven or Wherever They Come From to Remind Me That Everything Connects
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The WEEKEND RUBRICS are now up at SES/SUMS IT UP. I’ve been packing all evening - and sorting and cleaning my room etc - to catch an early morning flight from Berlin to NYC. But it was important to get this done.
WEEKEND RUBRICS: 5/31/26
May, June, July
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My final LETTER from Germany is now up at SES/SUMS IT UP. I write about Berlin a Leipzig and Weimar. The subtitle: Bauhaus, Hujar, Newton, AirBnb, A Singing Circle, and a Seven-Year-Old Boy's First Ballet
LETTER FROM BERLIN/LEIPZIG/WEIMAR: 5/30/26
Bauhaus, Hujar, Newton, AirBnb, A Singing Circle, and a Seven-Year-Old Boy's First Ballet
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My latest PILGRIM’S PROGRESS gallery of my life in Berlin and Leipzig is now up at SES/SUMS IT UP. It’s complicated. Check it out. Thanks
PILGRIM'S PROGRESS: 5/25/26
A GALLERY OF MY LIFE IN BERLIN & LEIPZIG
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My latest SES/SUMS IT UP column is now up. I call it a One-Off because instead of my usual weekly LETTER, it is a profile of the photographer Platon. The photo of me is at Bach’s tomb in Leipzig where I was this week. I write a bit about that too. Check it all out. Thanks.
A ONE-OFF: 5/23/26
First an Explanation, Then a Profile of the British/Greek Photographer Platon and a Gallery of Some of His Work
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My WEEKEND RUBRICS are up at SES/SUM IT UP. This weekend I remember Rex Reed. Check it out. Thanks.
WEEKEND RUBRICS: 5/16/26
R.I.P. REX
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My weekly PILGRIM’S PROGRESS gallery about my life in Berlin is now up at SES/SUMS IT UP. Check it out. Thanks.
PILGRIM'S PROGRESS: 5/14/26
A GALLERY OF MY LIFE IN BERLIN
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My latest LETTER FROM BERLIN is now up at SES/SUMS IT UP. It is subtitled “Marlene Dietrich, King Charles, the Met Gala, ‘Der Teufel trägt Prada,’ the Racist Sophistry of John Roberts, and the Rise of America's Version of Fascism.” Check it out. Thanks.
LETTER FROM BERLIN: 5/10/26 *
Marlene Dietrich, King Charles, the Met Gala, "Der Teufel trägt Prada," the Racist Sophistry of John Roberts, and the Rise of America's Version of Fascism,
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My latest PILGRIM’S PROGRESS gallery about my life in Berlin is up now at SES/SUMS IT UP. Oscar Wilde. My new 19-year-old flatmate from France named Quentin. One of the most remarkable feats of acting I’ve ever witnessed. And more …
PILGRIM'S PROGRESS: 5/7/26
A Gallery of My Life in Berlin
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My latest LETTER FROM BERLIN is now up at SES/SUMS IT UP. I write about May Day and George Baselitz and Christopher Isherwood. You can listen to Don Bachardy and me talking about Chris too. Check it out. Thanks.
LETTER FROM BERLIN: 5/3/26
Remembering Baselitz & Isherwood & Brecht. Acknowledging May Day. And Listening to Don Bachardy.
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My latest PILGRIM’S PROGRESS gallery about my life in Berlin is now up at SES/SUMS IT UP. Check it out. Thanks.
PILGRIM'S PROGRESS: 4/30/26
A Gallery of My Life in Berlin
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WEEKEND RUBRICS are now up at SES/SUMS IT UP. John Waters turned 80 on April 22nd, the day that Michael Tilson Thomas died.
WEEKEND RUBRICS: 4/26/26
MTT (RIP) ... John Waters Turned 80 Years Old on the Day that Michael Tilson Thomas Died
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This week’s LETTER FROM BERLIN at SES/SUMS IT UP is a Special Edition one, a profile and interview with David Soares who is Berlin’s newest sensation having starred in the title role of the Staatsballett Berlin’s production of "Nureyev" which was banned by Putin in Moscow.
LETTER FROM BERLIN: 4/25/26
SPECIAL EDITION: A Visit with David Soares, Berlin's Rudolf in Its "Nureyev." The Sold-Out Staatsballett Hit of the Putin-Banned Bolshoi Production Has Made Soares the City's Newest Star
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My latest PILGRIM’S PROGRESS gallery of my life in Berlin - and Potsdam - is now up at SES/SUMS IT UP. Check it out. Thanks.
PILGRIM'S PROGRESS: 4/20/26
A Gallery of My Life in Berlin and Potsdam
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My LETTER FROM POTSDAM is now up at SES/SUMS IT UP. This was a hard one to write. I had it all outlined but as I began to write it , it all changed on me. I hope you like it. Check it out. Thanks.
LETTER FROM POTSDAM: 4/18/26
Harry and Frederick and Eudora and Frederick and William and Frederick and Frederick and Merle
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My latest PILGRIM’S PROGRESS gallery of images with detailed “captions” is not up at SES/SUMS IT UP. Click on the link. Check it out. Thanks.
PILGRIM'S PROGRESS: 4/11/26
A GALLERY OF MY LIFE IN BERLIN
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My latest LETTER FROM BERLIN is now up at SES/SUMS IT UP. Check it out. Thanks.
LETTER FROM BERLIN: 4/9/26
Nodding off at "Nurejew," Wondering WTF at "Was ihr wolf," Marveling at Charlie Chaplin, Getting a Pronoun Right, Meeting a Woman Named Esther, and Rounding a Corner to What Awaited Me
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