http://viennanet.info “Stepping out of line” Sat, 05 Jul 2008 16:35:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Jazz Brunch with Harry Kuhner "The No-Nosense 4" are: Eddie Salmen on Trumpet Harry Kuhner on Drums Jürgen Pingitzer on Piano Peter Strutzenberger on Contrabass Harry Kuhner reads some of his great Jazz-Poems 11:30 a.m. Sunday July 6. 2008 at Wienerwald. Waehringerstrasse 85, 1180 Wien Tel.: 050 15 16 118 http://viennanet.info/text/reminder by David B. Axelrod It was a very good summer for me in 1982. My career was taking off as a poet with a big New and Selected Poems just published and lots of performances. One prominent venue on Long Island, Guild Hall in fashionable East Hampton, scheduled me to perform ... http://viennanet.info/text/the-art-of-being-too-jewish David will be visiting Vienna from July 14th to 18th. A meeting can be arranged by contacting Harry Kuhner. The following poem was inspired by our mutual friend Jozo Boskovski who left us this year for the Universe. - H. K. The Man Who Said "Maybe" He said a European flight from Macedonia took more time going than returning because ... http://viennanet.info/text/david-b-axelrod Nat Hentoff From Swing Men and Women by Herbert Kuhner You could call Nat Hentoff, the Dean of jazz critics. I've already expressed my admiration for him. Nat has always been politically minded and he certainly knows how to write a political sentence, as well as a sentence about music. Nat is now "pro-life." He's opposed to, what some refer to as murder ... http://viennanet.info/poetry/nat-hentoff-the-straight-road http://viennanet.info/poetry/jazz-brunch-in-july-08 From Stromboli to The Visit Ingrid Bergman left Hollywood to make Stromboli for Roberto Rosselini in 1949. Her intention was to leave Tinsel-Town glamour behind her to in order make neo-realistic European films. And Roberto's manly appeal may have influenced her decision. Roberto had made Roma, Open City and Paisa, which ... http://viennanet.info/polemics/ingrid-bergman-and-time Vernissage Padhi Frieberger in Studio 18 Gallery 17.06.08-6.30 p.m- on Waehringer Guertel 75 - 1180 Vienna Herbert Kuhner Charlie came first and then came Buster. Charlie pratfell and caused pratfalls, and he battered around with the heavies. Charlie had a mean streak but Buster was gentle. The Looney Tunes cartoon characters carried ... http://viennanet.info/gallery/opening-night-waterbed-art-association Herbert Kuhner from Swing Men and Women Hans Weigel, who was reputed to be the dean of Austrian critics, claimed that Uncle Sam had committed "mortal sins" in the music category. Porter, Berlin and Kern are named as the greatest sinners, but the sinner of sinners, according to Weigel, was George Gershwin. He calls Gershwin "a second-hand syncopation profiteer." Hans, there's a song I'd like ... http://viennanet.info/poetry/putting-george-down Profil 22. Jänner 2007, Profil 4, Seite 87 Interview Bronner: Dazu folgende Geschichte: Der Theaterkritiker Hans Weigel bekam von der Burgschauspielerin Käthe Dorsch anläßlich eines Verrisses die legendäre Watschn. Aus diesem Vorfall machte ich die Nummer "Hit me, Kate". Eines Abends saß Franz Antel mit großem Gefolge in der "Marietta". Just nach ... http://viennanet.info/polemics/hans-weigel-1908-1991 Being able to forget keeps you young! Minister With a Past The Minister of the Interior, Trotzkist, Maoist and Ho Chi Minh demonstrator in his student days, gave orders to the police to break up a peaceful pro-ecology demonstration with the use of truncheons and dogs. . . . . . . . ... http://viennanet.info/aktuell/guess-who The list of Austrian poets that Herbert Kuhner has rendered into English reads like Who's Who in modern Austrian poetry. - Harry Zohn, Brandeis University, Modern Austrian Literature, Riverside, CA The translations are impressive (poems by Johannes Urzidil). I would like to express my undivided admiration for Herbert Kuhner. He has remained ... http://viennanet.info/reviews/second-time-around Herbert Kuhner Black gold is the rub. Paul Wolfowitz: "...we just had no choice in Iraq. The country swims on a sea of oil." Yes, Wolfy, it's blood for oil. But it's no skin off your ass, is it? "When Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, supported by (President) Ford,  pushed a plan to have government help develop ... http://viennanet.info/polemics/advisor-in-the-sky Tricolore Pictures/Trikolore Bilder May 21st - June 16th 2008-05-21 Galerie Suppan * Contemporary Habsburgergasse 5, 1010 Vienna Mo.-Fri. 10-18 * Sat. 10-12: 30 Tel. +43 1 535 535 4 info@suppancontemporary.com www.suppancontemporary.com Florentina Pakosta The subject of Florentina Pakosta's paintings is often the common man. He turns up in oils, dull and blunt in earthen and mud colors with touches ... http://viennanet.info/reviews/florentina-pakosta-2 CNN Opens its Doors to Old Time Religion After the Times of New York took on that eloquent conservative pundit Bill Cristol, CNN, not to be outdone, invited babe in the woods Tony Snow and tough gal Laura Ingraham onto their sacred secular. Unfortunately, George W.'s former veracious mouthpiece did not ... http://viennanet.info/polemics/cnn-piece FOX Sexpert-ism Fox News stands for objective reporting and integrity. What's more is the conscience of the nation. Fox is a fighter against liberalism and libertinism. Foxmen advocate conservative and family values and they favor the omnipresence of the Deity in all walks of life. But this does not mean that ... http://viennanet.info/polemics/fox-shaving I've always claimed that I wanted to have smooth sailing, but I couldn't help rocking the boat. Rocking seems to be in my genes. The powers-that-be prefer to let things ride, until the blister breaks and something has to be done. Riding is invariably comfortable - as well as being profitable. The revisionists help perpetuate "cruelty ... http://viennanet.info/polemics/rocking Hitler couldn't have been such a bad person. After all, by intervening against the communists in the civil war, he saved Spain for Christianity. He couldn't have killed six million Jews. It couldn't have been more than four million. - Saint Josemaria Escrivá de Balaguer, founder of Opus ... http://viennanet.info/text/saints divisible morals sports and politics they say are two different things they say referring to the dark years of murder and death in the past they were fellow travelers they say nazis and knew what was going on and bore responsibility for it they say referring to the past sports and politics they say are two different things they say and mean murder and death today in tibet -translated from the ... http://viennanet.info/poetry/miguel-herz-kestranek-tibet Jozo has left us My friend Jozo has left us for the Universe. I first met him when I attended the Struga Evenings Poetry Festival in 1972. I last saw him at that venue in 1982. We kept in touch after that. I didn't think I'd never see him again. God, how ... http://viennanet.info/text/jozo-obituary Religion Without God Ah yes, the Lefties! It took quite a while for them to face up to Stalin's deeds. In the Thirties, there were purges, the show trials and the execution of the fellow revolutionaries, the general staff and anyone who happened to fall victim to the benevolent dictator's whims ... http://viennanet.info/polemics/stalin-trotzki