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Articles by Eric Trules
Shout Outs to my Mother & Son
Hola, Amigos, You may have noticed that I haven’t been publishing any new posts on Medium. It’s not that nothing is “new”; it’s just that what’s new is too difficult to write about at this very moment. I’m going through some late-life, difficult and challenging changes that hopefully, I’ll be ready to write about soon. But not quite yet.….
Kharkiv is the 2nd largest city in Ukraine. It’s now being pounded by Russian troops & missles daily, fighting desperately for its life and survival. It’s also where my paternal grandfather, Meyer, was born. I always wanted to, and planned on, going there, to see the place my grandfather was from. But I when I finally went to Russia in 2018 to teach theater in Moscow, I didn’t have time to go east to Kharkiv.
Portrait of an Artist as a Modern Dancer
By Eric Trules on May 19, 2021 inDanceFocus I’m working on a memoir called Discovering the Fountain of Youth, Becoming a First-Time Father at 70. How do you like the title? Here’s a small excerpt. *** It’s 1970. I’m 22 years old. I’ve just randomly arrived in the Windy City of Chicago, climbed an old wooden staircase up into a rehearsal room on Wells Street in Old Town. A month later, my life will change forever… “Somehow, miraculously, at least to me, I become a modern dancer. Soon a professional one.
Alley Pond Park, The Cousins’ Club, and The Loony Bin
I remember two things about Alley Pond Park from my early childhood in the 1950s. Neither was that it was the second biggest park in Queens County, one of the five boroughs of New York City, nestled at the far east borderline of Douglaston, Queens, just a stone’s throw from suburban Nassau County, where I grew up…. long before they built the east-west, Long Island Expressway right through the middle of Queens and Nassau.
Theater in the Pandemic: Parson's Nose Radio Theater
By Hoyt Hilsman on February 24, 2021 inMain PostsTheatre When actors Lance Davis and Mary Chalon launched a theater company from their home in South Pasadena twenty years ago, they never dreamed they would end up doing Radio Theater.
Both Sides of Billie Eilish
By Miki Hellerbach on October 9, 2019 in Music, TV + Web Billie Eilish’s most distinguishing quality is her tact. Her music style blends swagger, seductive darkness, humor, and vulnerability. Not to mention just amazingly catchy melody. This very composed combination grabs you as if it was meant to do so. It’s as if she actively developed the sound making sure to cover all of the vibes we inwardly wish to be drawn to. Now this may all just be her.
Synchronous Vaccination Tale
By Eric Trules on February 10, 2021 in Focus, Health, OUR WORLD So I’m driving home past Dodger Stadium, perhaps the biggest Covid vaccination site in our country. And living in Echo Park, as I do, actually in the hills called Elysian Heights, I live only 4 stops signs away from the World Series Champs of 2020.
Historic Meetings: One Night in Miami, Little Wars, Falling Stars
Film/TV/Web Review By David Sheward on February 6, 2021 in Film, Main Posts, Theatre, TV + Web When I was a kid back in the 1970s, PBS used to run a series called Meeting of the Minds. Created, written and hosted by the comedian-writer Steve Allen, the show brought famous figures from history together to exchange ideas. While the series has been largely forgotten, the genre lives on with numerous plays and films throwing prominent personages in a room and seeing what happens.
Are We There Yet?
By Ann Haskins on February 3, 2021 in Dance, Main Posts Operas learn to dance, week 3 of global dance films, new music with new dance, more dance films, plus online encores, where to submit dance videos, where to take online dance classes, and more SoCal dance this week. Author’s note: Many of the dance events and classes rounded up below are free with donations encouraged.
Hello, Impermanence: A Response to Rolling Stone’s New List
By John Amen on November 18, 2020 in Focus, Music Rolling Stone’s recently updated greatest-albums-of-all-time list is intriguing for the cultural, demographic, and stylistic changes it reflects, but more so for the way it illustrates the broader reality of impermanence — which includes and transcends culture, demography, and expressive modes — how all things, even the most admired aesthetic templates, over time lose their prominence, drifting toward obsolescence.
LIFE AFTER BIRTH AND THE SEISMIC SOUL OF 2020 (EEK!)
Cultural Weekly is a place to talk about our creative culture with passion, perspective and analysis – and more words than “thumbs up” or “thumbs down.” Our mission is to draw attention to our cultural environment, illuminate it, and make it ... read more
The Struggles of Reentry After Incarceration
The Next Gen By Reed Maruyama on September 30, 2020 in OUR WORLD In a time where much of America’s population is incarcerated, successful reintegration of ex-convicts is not only important to those returning from incarceration, but it is also an economic necessity. Although reentry is important, the path back to a normal life after incarceration can be extremely difficult. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, 10,000 prisoners are released from America’s state and federal prisons each week.
Self-Expression with Clothing
By Our Friends on September 25, 2020 inLifestyle Expressing yourself in this day and age proves to be quite challenging at times. Standards set by society about how you should look, act, and sometimes even feel; dictates many aspects of our lives. Popular culture informs us about what is cool, and high fashion sets us on the path of what we should wear to look on-trend. We all wear clothing for their practical use.
How The Choices We Make When We're Young Influence Our Futures
It’s the first day of Spring, March 21, 1970. I’ve packed up everything I own into a green Army duffle bag, thrown it into the trunk of my 1964 Pontiac Tempest and I’m hitting the road. I’m going to drive up and down America like it’s one big map. I have $850 in travelers checks in my wallet, the entire amount in my bank account, most of which has been saved from the Bar Mitzvah I never wanted to have.
How To Find Your Career Path In Life By Going Down The 'Wrong' One
I’m a teacher. My CV at University of Southern California (where I’ve taught for 30 years) says I’m an “artist-educator.” That’s why I like the quote above from John Steinbeck, one of America’s best novelists of the 20th century. He sees great teachers as great artists, and although I’ve had my share of teachers who were anything but artists, I like to think of myself as being included in Steinbeck’s category.
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