Actress, director, and on-camera coach Nancy Reardon, 81, has worked with St. Ann’s students for the past 50 years, engaging them in character development and strengthening their self-confidence for polished stage performances through theater classes and Shakespeare workshops. This spring, the “queen” of Saint Ann’s stepped down from her throne. “They called it a coronation, not a retirement, as they […]
Day: July 15, 2023
A Salvadoran story, by Brian Abate
There is a tiny restaurant called Los Hermanos Cafe at 142 West 9th Street. It’s in the middle of the busy intersection at Hamilton and Clinton St. right in-between Red Hook and Carroll Gardens. Though the space is small, the empanadas are excellent. I spoke to Jonathan Flores, who works as a cashier at Los Hermanos. He told me about […]
The Future is Now! The Singularity is Nigh! And the Singular Her is Now Our Era’s Cinematic Urtext., by Dante A. Ciampaglia
All the hand wringing and doomsaying around artificial intelligence — in tools like ChatGPT, Bard, DALL-E, and Midjourney — has made for some lazy movie comparisons. AI is like Skynet in the Terminator movies! These chatbots are a few dataset away from becoming 2001’s HAL 9000! We’re all destined to be mindless slug consumers controlled by corporate AI run amok, […]