Joseph Charleston

Sure, whatever crap is on the surface or front of a painting is arguably the ‘important’ side of the painting, but let’s take a moment to appreciate the often-overlooked back side of the artwork.

There was, at moments, a twinge of Melancholy when Devotchka! played at the marquee theater last October 13 opened by local acts Sonorous and Fatigo when many of the band and audience members began chanting “Emerald, Emerald, Emerald”.

A historic Phoenix City Council vote today will flatten three city blocks to make way for CityScape, a $900 million plan to revitalize the downtown core as imagined by Scottsdale’s RED Development. For a time it looked like Patriots Park was going to be razed without any comparable centralized park space being offered in its stead.

The realities of the Art world can seem harsh to those entering it for the first time.

It was not that long ago that Wayne Michael Reich considered himself to be primarily a Pop-art painter.