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Transmediale 2015, Berlin
photo by Jasmina Tesanovic Transmediale is an ideal event for taking the moral temperature of the alternative Internet crowd. This year: feverish. The theme was certainly well chosen: "Capture All",...
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Art... I Love You, I Love You Not
With Valentine's Day knocking on our doors, love -- plenty of love -- is waiting for us to make our choices and pronounce: "I love you, I love you not." Here are a few ideas for art adventures I want...
View ArticleThis Abandoned Hospital in Detroit Is Reality, Not a Set on 'The Walking Dead'
This story was written by Robert Johnson and originally appeared on Pixable. Driving through Detroit, abandoned commercial buildings of all types rise up from the mass of vacant homes to catch the eye....
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The Hunger of the Wolf
The Hunger of the Wolf is a novel about the new class of billionaires that are emerging, and about their glorious and tortured lives which are shaped almost entirely by the forces of money. Spanning...
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A Farewell to Bach
-- drawing by Eliane Gerrits My friend's husband recently died, so on a foggy February morning, I ask her over for a cup of tea. "Oh, no, please come to my house instead," she says, "and you can still...
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CD Review: Involuntary Memories by Plastic Handgun
Album: Involuntary Memories Aritst: Plastic Handgun Style: Indie Rock, Experimental Rock, Dream Pop, Psych Rock Released: January 11, 2015 Reviewed by: Christopher Zoukis and Randy Radic The name of...
View Article5 Tips for Scoring a Book Deal (on Top of a Little Luck)
This week I had two long-time clients score big time: One secured an agent after months and months of querying. The other landed a book deal and sent out the following stats in a celebratory group...
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Masam: Material World (Video)
Perfection, excellence and beauty - you won't find many creative people who don't seek these ideals in their work, from the surliest, most DIY of DIY bands to the most unashamedly elitist luxury car...
View ArticleFirst Nighter: Christine Bianco Lights Up Application Pending
Beauty and humor aren't so common a combination that a theatergoer can afford to get blasé about it. That's what Christina Bianco dispenses in large quantities throughout the Greg Edwards-Andy Sandberg...
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Detroit Symphony Orchestra Celebrates the Life and Music of Russian Composer...
The works of 19th century Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky have long been appreciated from classical music audiences alike worldwide for almost a century and a half now. While the number of...
View ArticleFirst Nighter: Joel Drake Johnson's Sly Rasheeda Speaking, Craig muMs Grant's...
Joel Drake Johnson is a sly one. At first, his Rasheeda Speaking -- directed by Cynthia Nixon with her own sly touch in a very impressive directing debut -- looks as if it's going to be a...
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Top 5 Architecture and Design Exhibitions for Your Calendar
Some brilliant ideas in architecture and design are being presented at galleries and museums around the world right now. From a modernist master in Sydney, to an innovative thinker in London, here are...
View ArticleHow to Discover and Create Original Characters for Animation and Games
Certainly not every voice talent is required to offer flawless dialects, or extreme departures from themselves -- as so many as actors and audience alike might assume. Nope. The truth is you being you...
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Road Trip to Ohio's "The Spot"
A group of Instagrammers came together in Columbus, Ohio, on February 5th for the opening of the Mobile Photo Now exhibit at the Columbus Museum of Art (check out all the photos at...
View ArticleThefts Are an Ever-Present Problem at Arts and Crafts Fairs
Opening her booth the second morning of an art fair, mixed-media artist Patricia Hecker of Bloomington, Ind., knew someone had been there the night before. Her artwork was OK, but the would-be thief...
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What Would William James Do?
I had never read William James before I wrote a book on self-help culture, and I'm not even sure what led me to him -- but he had as much to say on the subject of self-improvement as anyone writing...
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The Triumph of Bob Dylan's 'Shadows in the Night'
Good God! After all these years and all those albums, Bob Dylan still retains the power to surprise us and reinvent himself with his music. When Shadows in the Night was announced last year, it...
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Modern Designs for Downtown Raleigh
The enterprising owners of the Raleigh Architecture Company, one of the North Carolina city's newest design firms, could have waited for clients to beat a path to their door. Instead, they built a...
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The School of the Heartist -- Days of Founding a New School
Yanna Bat Adam's Solo exhibition. Yuba harvest art Gallery, Oregon House, CA. Photo - Radu Sava Visuals. As I was taking down a lovely solo exhibition I had mounted in the local art gallery, I...
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NYC Subway Cars: From Rolling Canvasses To Rolling Billboards
"If I had my way, I wouldn't put in dogs, but wolves," New York mayor Ed Koch suggested famously as a facetious proposal for releasing ferocious animals on graffiti writers in the train yards in the...
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