A California native, Sandra happily calls Manhattan (her city of choice for the last several decades) home. Enjoying an enduring passion for the theatre, her plays have been produced in several off-off Broadway venues, and an original drama for television was produced by the Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference. Her journalism credits include among others, reviews and profiles for Our Town, A Manhattan Weekly, The New Orleans Review, and Show Business Weekly. She is currently at work on a novel about cinematic illusions and a collection of stories about women in unfamiliar landscapes. Her paintings were featured in the opening exhibition this year at the Seti Gallery in Kent, CT. She believes every subject finds its medium—film, fiction, theatre, fine art—and she loves the journey. An inveterate traveler, she still finds stimulation and surprise in New York, and her cat Pazza, her greatest inspiration.
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Keeping a date with death may not sound like the most appealing way to walk out of one’s life and take to the road. But in "Youth in Oregon," most recently screened at the 15th annual Tribeca Film Festival, a...
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"There’s a difference between wishing someone dead and doing something about it." At least that’s what architect Walter Stackhouse believes in "A Kind of Murder," a feature film that recently premiered at The...
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Imagine some memorable encounters with a U.S. President -- Richard Milhous Nixon to be exact. Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev might come to mind. It was the Cold War, after all, so they had to meet from time to time. Nixon...
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It’s not unusual these days to hop on a plane in Los Angeles after morning coffee and be in Turkey in time for a tasty shish kebab dinner. It’s all part of living in the western world, right? But the five sisters in...
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Looks can be deceiving. When we first lay eyes on Mandahla Rose as "E," the sexy young DJ in Louise Wadley’s new lesbian caper film, "All About E," she seems to have the world, or at least the beautiful dykes that...
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The beloved funny girl Fanny Brice once remarked: “Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?”...
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In 1950, when John Malcolm Brinnin -- a young poetry professor at the time -- set out to bring the brilliant and incendiary Welsh poet, Dylan Thomas, to American audiences, he might as well have been chasing fire.
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In Aikido, a form of Japanese martial arts, the term “one cut, one life” is a way of saying everything could be the last time. Everything counts. And in the documentary film by Lucia Small and Ed Pincus of the same...
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Whatever one’s sexual orientation, filmmaker Eric Schaeffer believes there’s just one way to label it and that’s “human.” Schaeffer’s latest film, Boy Meets Girl, provides the most honest depiction of a...
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For most of us, addiction is not considered to be a particularly desirable trait. It can wreak havoc on an otherwise normal life and send the addict on a merry-go-round chase to nowhere. In Peggy Guggenheim’s case...
