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An Interview With Steve Rothery
Back in November of last year, I had the pleasure of interviewing the very talented Steve Rothery, the guitarist and a founding member of the English band Marillion. At the time, Rothery was in the...
View ArticleA New Shade of Green; The Anthropocene, Climate Change and Latinos
"Climate change is a defining issue of our time and there is no time to lose. There is no Plan B because we do not have Planet B," said the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon while...
View ArticleA Night With Lady G: A Trilogy of Irish Comedy
Founded in 2011 and currently in its second season, The Irish Heritage Theater is a professional company dedicated to presenting and preserving the rich legacy of Irish Theater that has been created...
View Article#ShowYourArt in October
October is National Arts & Humanities Month, the month to #ShowYourArt, meet up for Creative Conversations, and celebrate the role the arts and humanities have in shaping and improving our...
View Article"Indian Ink": Stoppard Conjures the Raj, Then and Now
It is always a joy to spend a night at the theater with Tom Stoppard. You can count on sparkling and witty wordplay, a mystery or two to be solved, a history lesson complete with footnotes, challenging...
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A Case for Community in Cultural Planning for New York
Today I add new learning about the importance of "community" to discussions underway about including a comprehensive cultural plan requirement in the New York City Charter. In doing so, I invite...
View ArticleTragedy and Art: The Power of Sam Cooke's 'A Change Is Gonna Come'
Fifty-one years ago, September 15, 1963, a coward murdered four little girls in an African-American church in Birmingham. It was an act of terrorism, an attempt to stem the rising tide of the civil...
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On the 'A' w/Souleo: New TV Series Explores America By The Numbers
If the numbers truly don't lie then America is in the midst of radical demographic change. The U. S. Census Bureau predicts a nation of multiple hues with a majority non-white population by 2043, if...
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My Afternoon at Art/Prize in Grand Rapids
This afternoon I visited Grand Rapid's beautiful art museum (GRAM) for their yearly student art exhibition, Art/Prize and though I arrived somewhat frazzled, I left in a state of deep contentment....
View ArticleOff Broadway: Neil LaBute's The Money Shot at the Lucille Lortel Theater
A Neil LaBute play is a genre unto itself, as illustrated by his new one, The Money Shot, an MCC production now deploying expletives at the Lucille Lortel Theater. Needless to say, the title relates to...
View ArticleThe Transformation of Justin Bieber From a White Youth to a Black Man
In what took Usher most of his 20-year music career to accomplish, it took Justin Bieber just a short five years to reap similar financial success and actually surpass his mentor. Usher Raymond IV was...
View ArticleHow to Save Each Other
As the Washington, D.C., premiere of Warner Bros.' new movie, The Good Lie, came to a close, I could barely see the credits through my tears, but the noise of the crowd around me erupting into cheers...
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7 DIY iPhone Shots That Can Turn Your Home Into an Art Gallery (for Just a...
Big wall art can look worldly and luxurious. Daring even. The visual impact of a poster size photograph--artfully composed, framed and matted--can stop your guests in their tracks. In contrast, the...
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Fox Reflections: What Does The Fox See?
Foxes don't seem to swim an awful lot. Suspiciously often I see them standing along the waterfront, though. So the question is....what are they doing there? Of course they might just be thirsty and by...
View ArticleThe Rumors of Opera's Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated (Pt. 1)
I first started ruminating on the idea for this post a couple of weeks ago when I was reading some glowing reviews for The Collaborative Works Festival in Chicago. The Collaborative Arts Institute was...
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New Mobile App Makes Great GIFs
Phhhoto is an oddly named and extremely fun iPhone app that is the answer to all the visual questions you didn't know you had. How can I share motion without worrying about audio? GIFs! How can I fall...
View ArticleNew Wave Women: Paris Photo Los Angeles
CORINNE VIONNET (SWITZERLAND) Corinne Vionnet layers hundreds of similar photographs of the same landmark to give an impression of a place we all know. She chooses locations based on travel brochures...
View ArticleHas Someone Stolen Your Idea?
"I'm worried that someone will steal my idea." Sometimes that thought will: - prevent you from moving forward on your project - prevent you from talking to people (some of whom could help you) about...
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Recycled Tijuana: Houses Trucked From San Diego
Occidente Nuevo: Recycled Tijuana is a project by Minnesota-based professors and collaborating photographers Laura Migliorino and Anthony Marchetti. At the end of the second world war, in San Diego,...
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Inside the Mind of Artist Miri Chais
"Re:Mind," a multimedia installation at USC's Fisher Museum of Art, is the first solo show in the United States for Miri Chais, an Israeli-born artist who now lives in Los Angeles. For the show, Chais...
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