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Suzanne Eberle Jack is a national award winning artist whose works are part of major corporate collections. She graduated from The Ohio State University with a Bachelor of Art Education and then earned a Master’s degree in Art Education from the University of Tennessee. Currently she is an art instructor at the Hardin Valley Academy in Knoxville, Tennessee.
The paintings and pastels of Suzanne Eberle Jack will be on display at The Ohio State University Faculty Club from October 29th through December 19, 2008.
Suzanne Eberle Jack’s return to OSU's campus -where she will attend an opening reception in her honor- will renew her memories of the 1969 football season as a cheerleader when Ohio State won the National Championship in the Rose Bowl.
Opening Reception honoring Ms JacK Friday, November 7 6:00 to 8:00PM The Ohio State University Faculty Club 181 South Oval Mall on the Columbus campus. 614-292-2262
Award winning actor, performer, social commentator, poet, raconteur, and all-around good guy Steve Ben Israel sent three vignettes below. Steve is often heard delivering wry, relevant commentary on NPR. In this photo, (taken by Fernando Leon) he accepted an Obie award.
I met Steve at an all-night diner in the lower east side of NY city, several years ago, introduced by my long-time friend Stan. We talked, dank coffee, schmoozed, listened to his fabulous tales and enjoyed it enough to consider the evning memorable.
Please enjoy three short poems below told with a bit of New York irony, followwed by two short Youtube videos showcases. -------------------------- brooklyn
flunked out of high school went back in the summer and passed all 3 subjects amazing, teachers must be nicer in july and august what now,18 years old now what some friends out in k.u. in kansas write me and say come out here and I write them back are you kidding with my grades" they say write them anyhow and I do and they write me back and say are you kidding with your grades but they give me a three month trial period of three credits in english
so I make my way to the land of thank you and come back and there in english I am asked to write a paper on henry david thoreau's walden pond now reading and writing it down was always tough for me and still is, but I do it and hand it in a week later the papers are marked and ready the teacher is holding up two papers in front of the class he says this first paper shows remarkable insight in to walden pond but I am not quite sure what language he wrote it in this other students paper is grammatically perfect but I don¹t know what he read,now the first paper was mine a lot of red on yellow legal and he hands it to me in front of the entire class and I take the heat hoping that the bell is going to ring so I can go out and talk to a tree who I know will tell me I am really ok the bell rings so I make my way to the door and the teacher says steven can I see you for a momment sure and I make my way to the front of the class and the teacher says steven ah are you a foreign student and I say no I am from brooklyn
steve ben israel
not my real uncle
she invited me over to dinner for lisa bauer at her uncles house in west berlin she said he wasn't her real uncle he a berlin police captain hid seven jews in seven different houses along with her mother and brother for four years he provided food medicine and security they were hiding they were hidden they were hidden they were hiding the last day of the war she emerged to the sunlight and then raped by a drunken russian liberator in the midst of her joy and then stabbed in her breast later she became a pianist and teacher and was a bright light in a city with a wall around it I went to her uncles house for dinner along with the others who called him uncle every month he cooked dinner when I met him he said" just call me uncle" now that's an uncle
steve ben israel
star wars 1999
I won't be waiting on line and I don't need any tickets because star wars is playing everywhere, especially on CNN the military home shopping channel and every half hour, James Earl Jones, the voice of Darth Vader, says,"this is CNN" and I won't be picking up any action figures to this" new phanto menace"
because I remember April 29,1975 our sons first birthday, and he's asleep and he doesn't know it when suddenly he's awakened by another baby crying 6,000 miles away coming out of the tv because I'm watching the NBC special "the evacuation of Saigon
the next picture was of the parents of the last American soldier to die in that Vietnam war and they were both holding back their tears as the father say's,"my son gave his life for his country" I held our son even closer and realized how precious that moment was
a few years later a friend of mine says,"have you seen the new star wars movie yet?" and I said "not me, pops, the last thing I want to do is see a movie with the word war in it'
but that changed very quickly, when all of a sudden our son said 'daddy, daddy, we have to go see star wars, everybody I know has seen star wars, we have to see star wars" so we went to see star wars. and I actually saw all three of those modern day swashbuckling intergalactic sagas of good guys verses bad guys and, actually the movies played for years on our son's floor I was always avoiding stepping on luke Skywalker, princes laya, Darth Vader,Han solo, Jaba the hut, chubacka the wookie,Yoda r2d2 and cp30. I once spent an hour and a half on my knees trying to find Yoda's cane and screamed out,"I found it, I found it, I found Yoda's cane"
but know our son is twenty five and I think this time, together we are going to skip this phantom menace and go to the peace vigil out the 42nd street library hoping that we are going to be joined by the liberals and the conservatives the democrats and republicans the left and the right because too many parents have cried in this century for the children they have lost
Columbus, OH— This weekend there will be almost no empty space between COSI and the west bank of the Scioto in Genoa Park. That’s because the Riverfront Art Festival will debut with nearly 150 local, regional, and national artists along with plenty of food and entertainment.
The Riverfront Art Festival is the new incarnation of the Goodale Park Art Festival, which had been one of Columbus’s fastest growing festivals. After outgrowing the parking at its former location, the festival looked to the Riverfront, where parking is plentiful and attendees will have the opportunity to savor the artwork’s surprises while taking in the city’s skyline and mingling with fellow art lovers.
Organized by Jay Snyder, the former producer of Columbus Winterfair, the Riverfront Art Festival will feature every imaginable kind of fine art & craft ranging from decorative oil paintings and sculptures, to functional ceramics and jewelry. “With all of these artists, you are sure to find something that expresses your own unique taste,” said Snyder, “and every artist has a story - when you take that work home with you, you take home the story along with it.”
With free admission, you will have a hard time finding an excuse to miss this incredible close to downtown’s festival season. On Saturday, the incomparable WaterFire will be conducting its final burn of 2008 as a part of the Riverfront Art Festival’s full entertainment schedule. The amphitheater will also feature local and regional musical acts throughout the weekend.
The Riverfront Art Festival will be open Friday, September 19, 2008 from 5 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.; Saturday, September 20, 2008 from 10:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.; and Sunday, September 21, 2008 from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. For more information log on to www.riverfrontartfestival.com or www.waterfirecolumbus.com.
This came from my friends Alan and Lynn Fliegel who live in Phoenecia in the Catskill Mountains of New York. They were in town with a booth at the Ho Times festival this past weekend.
The Arts Upstairs Gallery, 60 Main St., Phoenicia, NY 12464, WWW.ArtsUpstairs.Com, 688-2142 Announces:
Art Opening for show theme entitled, "Pot Luck" Opening, Saturday September 20, 6 to 9 + PM Group Show including the works of assemblage artist Judith Singer in the Solo Room contact person: Alan Fliegel, info@artsupstairs or 688-2142
The Free Press Salon has a NEW LOCATION: 1021 East Broad Street (parking in rear)
Come join us this Saturday, September 13 between 6:30pm and midnight for the Free Press Second Saturday Salon with food, drink, and progressive friends.
This is an invitation to a tribute to "Fred and Howard" , longtime residents and honorary mayors of German Village, and well known as the grand-fatherly curmudgeon characters who presided over the Hausfrau Haven, an emporium of unclassifiable assorted goodies and local needs. Their influence reached in the arts, theatre, music and their contributions, enormous enthusiasm and efforts toward promoting the city's arts and their own, unique neighborhood was far reaching.
Fred is the surviving partner and will be honoredat this public reception. All friends, admirers and curious are invited, at 6 pm, Tuesday September 9, at the Franklin Park Conservatory's Garden Pavillion.
Two Tone rocking the house, on Saturday afternoon at Hot times 08
See the slideshow! Festival ended yesterday evening. We are tired, exhausted and thrilled. Met old friends, made new ones, grooved on wonderful music and good vibes.
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