Email Author Miriam Felton-Dansky

2013 Stories by Miriam Felton-Dansky

• City Council Meeting: Going Through the Motions

  published May 8, 2013

  Ever fancy yourself a politician? Perhaps a much-beloved mayor, or a city councilor staunchly shepherding your hometown along? If so, seize the... More >>

• La Ruta: Rough Crossing

  published April 17, 2013

  This spring, Congress is yet again taking up the debate over immigration reform. And for every day politicians spend arguing over the fate of... More >>

• Neva: Sunday Bloody Sunday

  published March 13, 2013

  What to do when your husband is dead, a revolution is raging in the streets—and your new monologue just isn’t working? In... More >>

• Jackie: First Lady Problems

  published March 6, 2013

  She clambers up through a trap door, emerging onstage with a collection of tatty faceless dummies in tow. They’re swathed in duct tape, and... More >>

• Jesus Christ, Punk Superstar

  published February 20, 2013

  Jesus was, by most accounts, the original hippie—sporting long hair and sandals, and spreading peace and love among Jews and Romans... More >>

• The House of Von Macramé Cuts Itself with Clichés

  published January 30, 2013

  Actors, beware the curtain call that requires you to wade through puddles of blood. So treacherous is the Bushwick Starr's stage at the end of... More >>

• Life and Times: So This Is Growing Up

  published January 23, 2013

  What genre is your life story? Were your teenage years a murder mystery? Did your preschool comrades resemble a communist youth group, performing... More >>