by John O'Kane | Jan 6, 2024 | Amass Blog
Fertilizing the Wasteland: A Retroactive Conversation with Philomene Long As time passes, we need to start preserving the memories of the Venice Beat writers, and above all identify the spaces where they flourished before they are bulldozed into oblivion. Finding...
by John O'Kane | Jun 18, 2023 | Feature
Patricia Cunliffe Experimental filmmaker and author Kenneth Anger died on May 11, 2023. In this article, AMASS contributor Patricia Cunliffe explores his life, his work, and his unique place in our culture. Then we hear from Anger himself in a revelatory and...
by John O'Kane | Jun 7, 2023 | Amass Blog
The Democrats are celebrating their win in the November election as a victory for democracy, a welcoming assertion if they’ve indeed checked the anti-democratic tendencies in the Republican Party and elsewhere. But it was also surely a defaulted one, dependent to a...
by John O'Kane | Sep 29, 2021 | Uncategorized
“I don’t think I’ve ever…met him,” says the woman mostly to herself, scoping the portable plasterboard-stand near the entrance pasted with clippings and reminiscences, like something there might help her be more decisive. “Why did you come, then?” I ask. “Oh,...
by John O'Kane | Apr 29, 2021 | Uncategorized
He kisses the redial on his phone once again and orders another draft from the waitress, feeling like he’s becoming conspicuous sitting at the end of the bar near this open bay window to the sea, but gets no answer. Yesterday she choked his messages with questions and...
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