Liz Tracy, 11/30/11

Writer, 'Miami New Times'; founder, TheHeatLightning.com

Carlos Ascurra and Juan Gonzalez are much more popular as Viking Funeral than as Carlos Ascurra and Juan Gonzalez. It's not because they aren't impressively clever, interesting, talented dudes.

Marshall Fine, 11/30/11

Author and film critic, hollywoodandfine.com

Never a popular part of the Shakespeare canon, Coriolanus bears a peculiar timeliness, in the muscular directorial debut by Ralph Fiennes.

Bill Bush, 11/29/11

Publisher of Artweek.LA, a leading online magazine dedicated to the Los Angeles art scene

Paul Klein, 11/30/11

Art advocate

Tom Teicholz, 11/29/11

Content consultant

George Heymont, 11/29/11

San Francisco-based arts critic

Lee Rosenbaum, 11/28/11

Blogger, CultureGrrl

Whatever its faults, Alice's Palace is, overall, an arresting, rewarding creation. However it stacks up against the great public collections of American art, Crystal Bridges is undeniably a great boon for its art-starved region.

Tony Bartolone, 11/29/11

Actor, comedian, writer

Every night before I go to bed I say a little prayer and thank the universe that we have indie theatre. Without independent art we would not have a play like Crumble.

Terence Clarke, 11/29/11

Novelist and filmmaker

Lisa Derrick, 11/29/11

Pop culture journalist, Firedoglake.com

New York Magazine's art critic Jerry Saltz loves Gerhard Richter's paintings. A lot. So much so that the three-time Pulitzer nominee offered either $1,000 or a sex act to any artist who could make him a replica.

David Finkle, 11/29/11

Writer; Drama Critic

It's high time someone employs several hundred words to sing the praises of jazz violinist Aaron Weinstein for the widest audience possible.

Agnes Thor, 11/29/11

Photographer in Sweden

Paul Greenberg, 11/29/11

Author; 'Four Fish' and 'Leaving Katya'

On the 101st anniversary of his death, a look back through Leo Tolstoy's epic Facebook posts.

James Elkins, 11/28/11

Art critic and historian, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

I am serializing an unpublished book in this column. It's about an amazing, mysterious manuscript I discovered in Scotland with nothing in it but 50 watercolor paintings.

Evelyne Politanoff, 11/28/11

Publisher, Trouvaillesdujour

Shooting with medium format in an outdoor studio, his recent project has focused on the Egungun masqueraders.

Barry Levinson, 11/28/11

Academy Award-winning director, screenwriter and producer

If that great comedy team were still alive, the routine on our unemployment woes might go something like this.

Bren Shucart, 11/28/11

Writer, Activist, Adventurer

In every city in America (and, I suspect, the Western world) there are drag queens, DJs, artists, and performers busting their asses every day to make gay culture happen. And for you to airily decree gay culture to be dead is a kick in the face.