Bernie Garcia

Artists as visionary leaders Arrivée de toujours, qui t’en iras partout.(Come from forever and you will go everywhere.) —Arthur Rimbaud With the many questions that are rapidly arising from our clear and present dystopian 2020 existence, the undeniable and underlying sentiment should be: “What do we do now and how do we get there?” As a worldwide community, we are now waking up to constructive dialogues on food insecurity, health care as a basic right, homelessness, unemployment, racism, classism and a plethora of similar topics. Meanwhile, ineffective leadership widens the apparent disconnection between politicians/profiteers and working-class heroes everywhere. One must wonder: Was there ever really a bonafide connection? And, if…

Last Thursday, my brother and I went to Kingsbury Hall and thanks to my friend, House Manager John Armstrong, we were able to catch up with Tony Kushner and sit down with him for a short, yet insightful interview on topics not covered by Doug Fabrizio. Kushner is a Pulitzer winning playwright, an Academy Award nominated screenwriter, and in my opinion a poet and people’s champion. He has spoken out in defense for the LGBTQIA community, championed the cause for Palestinian statehood and fought tirelessly to bring awareness to the most pressing and pertinent issues of our time. I was overwhelmed and thrilled to be chatting with such a literary…

While attending Sundance 2015, I walked into Music Lodge, a private venue that highlights some of the best in today’s music scene, and on hand was up and coming nineteen year old protege Pablo Dylan. If the last name strikes you as an homage to the legendary Bob Dylan, it is not a tribute at all; Pablo IS the son of iconic music video director/activist Jesse Dylan who just happens to be Bob Dylan’s eldest son. Much like his famous grandfather, Pablo brings an articulate and intelligent voice to a genre that needs fresh talent and a fresh face to keep it moving in an artistically sound direction. But his…