I was reading the New York Times recently and was unsure of how to react to a tidbit I read in the Arts Section. Terrence Malick, the director of the brilliantly atmospheric and stunning film "The Thin Red Line", is apparantly preparing to direct "The New World", which takes place in the early 1600's in...where? Why, the "new world", of course. Of course. The role of Pocahantas has yet to be cast....click here for more ...

Erin Verdis (Mohawk/Wolf Clan) lives in New York City where she is a fashion model and actor. She is enrolled at Union Institute and University of Vermont in their Independent Learning Program....click here here for more...

I can't help it right now. Yes, I have been sampling the latest round of reality television programs. And there are two of them that inspired me to write this: "Frontier House" and "Colonial House" on PBS.... click here for more ...

An Excerpt from Smoke Dancing | by Eric Gansworth

A bird hits the living room window head on, telling me, as they do in suicide, that someone close to me has just passed on. Not a minute earlier, I slurped down my last cup of morning coffee, and stuffed the vacuum cleaner back into its closet. The dull sound of death, glass moaning just a little, travels toward me across the carpet, freshly blank and free of prints, a blackboard in the summer. The room freezes around me for a moment in the greasy feather-oil stain - the bird's last second on earth, slapped in mid-flight across the window. I cut a path of small, quick footprints across the living room and fly out the door.... click here for more ...

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