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Tag: 09.13.09
Good News For Downtown Orlando As Comedy Troupe Moves In
“In a deal that may mean better times for two of downtown Orlando’s attractions, Sak Comedy Lab plans to move to CityArts Factory, in the heart of downtown. The arrangement is expected … to mean a steady tenant for CityArts’ struggling parent, the Downtown Arts District (DAD).”
Is The Internet Really Helping People Govern Themselves? (Erm …)
“There is a lively debate in progress about what some call Gov 2.0. One camp sees in the Internet an unprecedented opportunity to bring back Athenian-style direct democracy.” People on the other side “worry that [the Web] creates a falsely reassuring illusion of equality, openness, universality.” And the Gov 2.0 they’ve seen so far doesn’t look so promising.
Pope Plans Autumn Meeting With As Many As 500 Artists
“The director of the Vatican museums, Antonio Paolucci, said it was hoped [the event] would mark a sort of ‘reconciliation after the great divorce’. The invitation list includes artists from five continents, ranging from painters, sculptors and architects to poets and directors.”
Dressing Up A Turkey At Atlantic Yards
“When [developer Bruce] Ratner first unveiled the Atlantic Yards project in 2003, it was to be a complex on a virtually Vatican scale … all of it designed by Gehry. Six years later, we’re left with a possible basketball court in a prairie of blight.”
Onstage, Technology Is A Double-Edged Sword
“There have been plenty of breakthroughs, such as the blending of media and genres to create new art forms or the use of virtual gaming to redefine ‘audience participation.’ There have been missteps too, especially when people have become overly enamored of new toys and tools.”
NYC’s Channel 13 Plagued By Financial Woes
“Former and current staffers talk of an air of crisis inside the nation’s largest public television station, which has been battered from several directions at once.” The troubles include a Department of Justice investigation, which is said to have “put a choke hold on key sources of funding.”
Avenue Q Not Closing — Just Moving Off-B’way
“At the final Broadway performance of the long-running tuner, producer Kevin McCollum took the stage following the curtain call and announced the show would transfer to New World Stages,” becoming one of the very few Broadway shows to migrate off-Broadway.
Too Many Movies?
“In the past few years the critics at The New York Times have reviewed more than 600 movies annually, sometimes 20 in a given week, a trend showing few signs of reversal. Is all this plenty a good thing?”
The Art Of Technology
“A global movement is hacking, subverting and critiquing the hardware, software, content, visuals — even the philosophy of the wired world.”