Category: art

  • Happy Belated!

    Happy Belated!

    Alessandra De Soto, a New York native yet raised abroad in the Dominican Republic, relocated to Florida at the age of 17 where she started a career in ‘corporate America’. After profiting from her endeavors, she moved to New York City to pursue her repressed dreams of entertaining as an actress, singer, writer and producer.…

  • “Fix your head in My Crown” – Jay-Z releases Magna Carta Holy Grail

    “Fix your head in My Crown” – Jay-Z releases Magna Carta Holy Grail

    Last night the Internet hiccupped as Jay-Z had his coronation at midnight by way of his Magna Carta Holy Grail. HOV’s new album, named after the charter that limited the powers of the monarch in 13th Century England, is also arguably one of the most heavily promoted albums of the 21st Century. The hip-hop world…

  • I am with you in Allston – by Phillipe Chatelain

    I am with you in Allston – by Phillipe Chatelain

    i am with you in allston – poem by phillipe chatelain Phillipe Martin Chatelain is a hoodlum from the Bronx, New York. He writes poetry and is founder and Managing Editor of In Parentheses Literary Magazine. A recent graduate of Boston University, his first chapbook taking shots alone has been independently released and his poetry can…

  • On the morning of oblivion…by G. Mramor

    On the morning of oblivion…by G. Mramor

    On the morning of oblivion I rise with the mourning star. I move through the crowds and let our shoulders bump, our hands touch, our eyes wonder. In the park light dazzles children climbing hills, dashing fields, running the jungle gyms lords of all.  And in the cafes hairy legs and summer dresses, grizzly beards…

  • Kanye West, Yeezus, and Andy Warhol’s “Business Art” by P. Chatelain

    I feel like I need a certain disclaimer before I say anything else. Disclaimer: I am a Kanye West fan. That seems sufficient. When I saw that there was an interview on NY Times with Kanye West, knowing that his album Yeezus is coming out this week, I had to take a look. Because, with Kanye, that…

  • Belief…by G. Mramor

    Belief…by G. Mramor

    Can you mock me so, because I wish to believe? Can you attack me so, because I wish to believe? Can you hate me so, because I wish to believe? But what is my belief, that makes me so? That is rapturous and deadly. That in my hand is a paper timeless and in my…

  • Where roots spread into oblivions…by G. Mramor

    Where roots spread into oblivions…by G. Mramor

    Where roots spread into oblivions,

  • They will make cities from us…by G. Mramor

    They will make cities from us…by G. Mramor

    And there I am, like a devil before your eyes, bouncing from lash to lash to make my way down the race of your skin and glide my fingers across your receding lips, yearning for no memory fore memory is not needed to find the trace of your beauty, like my ink through this page,…