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After tragically losing his wife, Ezra is still going through the motions, but not really living. All he has now is his son, Spencer, and his career as a dentist. The life he thought he was going to have has been torn apart. The things he had once enjoyed no longer feel the same without the person he had shared everything with. That is, until Ferris Jenkins crashes into his life. Not only does the lifeguard save his son from literally drowning in the ocean, but he also slowly starts to bring Ezra back to life.

Although he might not look it, pack beta and bookstore owner Horatio Ortega always had a weakness for a certain feisty human. Trouble is Corey Malone's middle name. Although they've known each other since they were kids, Corey continues to be a pain in his ass. As beta, its Horatio's job to maintain order in town, but Corey seems intent on breaking all the rules. The more Horatio wants to hate Corey, the harder it is to let go.

There are three things that we have to take into account when attempting to assess the impact of the contemporary sensibility in art on the culture of the various countries bordering the Mediterranean. First, the way in which each of these territories responds to the idea of the contemporary is bound up with its own cultural history. Every Mediterranean coastline possesses a hinterland, and this hinterland exercises an enormous influence on what is seen on the coast itself.

Britain’s Culture Minister, David Lammy, recently suggested that the history of slavery should be made a compulsory part of the nation’s school curriculum. Mick Hume, a columnist in The Times, promptly retorted, “Slavery and the Holocaust are now likely to be taught as little chunks of history, removed from any proper context. They become simplistic parables of good and evil, over which children are encouraged to emote and empathise...." How well founded was this criticism?

The current agitation about the restitution of artistic treasures of all kinds to their original locations is usually presented as overdue justice for faults committed by European colonialism. In fact, this is a serious oversimplification. Conquering armies have always regarded works of art as legitimate spoil. Modern attitudes to the legitimate or illegitimate possession of famous artworks can be traced to the European Enlightenment that blossomed in the late 18th century.

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Jerry Norcia's Felony at 40,000 Feet follows Universal Airlines employee Grant Guidera, whose desire to succeed takes him on a risky path to self-destruction. Money pulls Guidera into the shady arena of sex, drugs, illegal aliens, and other sordid aspects of the underworld. His life becomes a nightmare as everything and everyone he cares about crash around him. Will he lose it all as greed thrusts him into a cycle of risk, betrayal, guilt, personal loss, and fear? Grant is desperate to call it quits, but is it too late?

Freeze Frame brings together six international poets, each with their own vision of what would appear in the static frame if we captured the flow of our ceaseless contemporary narrative. Read and recorded by the poets themselves in their home locations, the listener may experience their full presence and intention.