Can Rahm Emanuel Save The Chicago Film Renaissance?

During the administration of Mayor Richard Daley fils, Chicago experienced an upswing in both film production and the city’s cinematic image. Yet now, with the Batman franchise having decamped for Pittsburgh, Chicago’s boosters are worried that the city’s filmic renaissance is over. Could the new mayor – whose brother is one of Hollywood’s most powerful agents – get the momentum going again?

Gil Scott-Heron, 62, Singer, Poet And Activist

“Scott-Heron’s music reflected something of the militancy and self-assertiveness of such theorists and polemicists as Malcolm X and Stokely Carmichael. Over the course of some 20 albums he produced a series of sardonic and biting commentaries on ghetto life and racial injustice, including ‘Whitey’s On The Moon’, ‘Home Is Where The Hatred Is’, … ‘Johannesburg’,” and his most famous piece, “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised”.

Looking For The Source Of Consciousness? You Won’t Find It In The Brain

Alva Noë: “We haven’t found it there, and we won’t. Not because consciousness happens somewhere else, in the soul, say, or in the environment, or in the collective. But because consciousness isn’t something that happens; it is something we do or make. … Looking for consciousness in the brain is like looking for dance in the legs.”

Are Articles Now The Goal Of Journalism – Or A Luxury By-Product?

Jeff Jarvis looks at journalists’ live-blogging and tweeting their reporting from recent news hot spots – the Missouri tornado site, the Arab Spring uprisings, the Canadian election campaign and South by Southwest – and suggests that more reporters’ time should be spent simply gathering and uploading information. Rewrite editors can create an article from the raw material later – if necessary.