Melissa James Gibson is at once an anomaly among contemporary playwrights and a sterling emblem of her contemporary theatrical period.  As anomaly, she imbues each work with a singular integrity that seems almost defiant of the current overriding trend of theatrical collectives and hive-minde

Calvin Johnson is most often spoken of in relation to those with whom he has worked and whose careers he has helped further or create, whether by explicit or implicit means.  Indeed, he has worked with or influenced nearly all of the largest names in indie music over the past twenty years: Be

I have been a visual thinker since the day I was born. I knew what a typeface was before I knew the word 'typeface', and found myself looking at the Moire pattern (dots) on what I later came to find out was called 4 color or CMYK print. The graininess on photography intrigued me and I was strangel

It may seem that Joanna Newsom would make it easy for others to dismiss or codify her among other largely mocked sorts – her voice is unusual, her lyrics often entrenched in worlds of fable-like precision and peculiarities – but she utilizes her singing and song-writing abilities with