In the new album “BookEnds” by Jack Atkinson & The Studio Gang thi song has been pulled out as a single. Start the player by clicking on the arrow at the left of the player. Original music © Jack Atkinson 2025 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Create a Good Life & Treat Good People Good Lyrics by. […]
Category Archives: THE ARTS
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Nov
Nov
The latest song from Jack Atkinson & The Studio Gang is about families and how deep our histories go back. This is true, even for those who don’t know who their parents were. We seldom think about all the genes that make up our physical minds and bodies, and the souls that contributed to our […]
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Oct
Oct
By F. Scott Fitzgerald — Retold for ARTS & FOOD® Readers by J. Atkinson In the glittering heat of the Jazz Age, money gleamed like salvation and love was measured in silk and champagne.The Great Gatsby remains America’s most haunting portrait of ambition, beauty, and loss — a novel drenched in luxury and loneliness. Below, […]
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Oct
Oct
The Modern Landscape: Seeing the Ordinary Anew (NOTE: Jack Atkinson is the Editor /Publisher of ARTS&FOOD® and is first and foremost an artist himself [medium: ink and brush with unique digital output shown in NYC galleries]. He creates works in other arenas like photography, culinary arts, writing, art history, music, and publishing. The reason is […]
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Oct
Oct
The Beatles: They Led the Creative Revolution of the 1960s! When the Beatles burst onto the global stage in the early 1960s, they did far more than introduce a new kind of music — they reinvented what it meant to be young, modern, and creative. From Liverpool’s smoky clubs to America’s television screens, the Beatles […]
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Oct
Oct
Why Do Commercial Stories and Marketed Music Have a “Normal” Length? Stories and music albums are explicitly designed to fit the average human attention span — the amount of time our brains can stay focused before we start to drift or need a break. 1. How Long Can We Stay Focused Most people can fully […]
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Sep
Sep
THE HOLIDAY SEASON IS UPON US It’s Christmas – Make a Joyful Noise! Welcome to “BOOKENDS” by Jack Atkinson & The Studio Gang – A Country Pop Sound TRACKS: (1) It’s Christmas – Make a Joyful Noise • (2) Woop Woop Your Wild Yelp • (3) Southern Flavors of Childhood • (4) Morning Solitude • […]
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Jul
Jul
A photo essay serves as both a mirror and a manifesto. It is an exploration not just of what is seen, but of how seeing shapes our understanding of the photographer’s eye. In this visual narrative, each image becomes a deliberate conversation about perception, emotion, and the silent power of an image and its composition. […]
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Jul
Jul
THE WIZARD OF OZ (first a synopsis) Audio of this article. A Storm, a Dream, and a Journey A restless young girl, feeling overlooked and misunderstood in her quiet farming life, longs for something more exciting, beyond her surroundings of flat fields and gray skies. One day, a fierce windstorm (a tornado) sweeps her away—literally. […]
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Jul
Jul
A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole’s A Confederacy of Dunces is one of the most unusual and memorable novels in American literature. It is also a book with a story behind the story. Toole wrote the novel in the early 1960s, but after facing rejection from publishers and growing discouraged, he sadly took his […]