Saturday, October 29, 2011
h/t George Lazenby, who says:
This guy is unreal. Everything people got wet about with Neutral Milk Hotel, is already here, in 1970.
Perfect for this gray morning.
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 11:11AMThursday, October 27, 2011
Isaac's briefest manifesto ever:
The ultimate purpose of art-- particularly writing-- is not self-expression. Self-expression is, in general, what art is made out of, it's base materials…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 03:46PMI guess Occupy Wall St. is on our minds, because people are tossing out all sorts of solutions, lately! Ways we can solve our problem in the arts, that is. Here is a round-up of some interes…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 02:21PMCatching up from the closing of Fighter this week...
Things which I find to be awesome:
The phrase "death by misadventure," which apparently applies to Amy Winehouse but not to, say, …
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 12:55PMWednesday, October 26, 2011
From FiveThirtyEight:
Below are the Republican and Democrat’s endorsements as a percentage of the total endorsements given out that cycle:
Oh, I see... the "left wing media bias" is "R…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 11:19AMMonday, October 17, 2011
One more week of Fighter. For once, we've got people talking about it!
What is Fighter?
"Fighter," a play created, directed and choreographed by Tisch graduate Jose Perez, is no ordinary t…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 10:55AMWednesday, October 12, 2011
If you'd have told me this morning that my biggest laugh today would be a tumblr that combines Charles Isherwood and yogurt, I would have just been confused.
(h/t Matthew Freeman)
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 01:58PMWednesday, October 5, 2011
Too sporadic to make this feature dated, but here it is.
Thinking about values:
The Value of College is (a) Growing (b) Flat (c) Falling (d) All of the above. An article that actually l…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 10:03PMSo, I finally finished Star Trek: the Next Generation, and I've moved on to Firefly. It's interesting getting into yet another old memory, half a decade later. Whereas Star Trek was my obses…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 10:01PMHonestly, not only do I agree with everything in this post about horror on stage, but it's also written in a very similar process to how I like to approach those kinds of questions. The ques…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 04:20PMHey Americans, ever heard of any of these:
Robert Chafe, the St. John's-based winner of the 2010 Governor General's Award for drama (for Afterimage) and artistic associate and playwr…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 03:45PMSo, last week, it was Post #1,000. A post about the past.
Today: Post #1,001. A post about the future.
After all, this is a blog about the future. The future of culture.
So the question i…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 03:38PMSaturday, October 1, 2011
If Blogger is not steering me wrong, this is my 1,000th post.
On Valentine's Day, 2008, I did what I'm sure what every person was doing on Valentine's Day: sitting facing a computer, alon…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 01:34AMThursday, September 29, 2011
What article do you think opens with this sentence?
These days, there's no boatman in a dark cowl to take you over to the other side where the souls who wail for eternity are found.
If you …
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 10:00AMWednesday, September 28, 2011
The other videos by this man are equally insightful.
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 07:42PM1) I've never seen Mad Men, despite -- and possibly because of -- all of the glowing raves everyone I know gives the show, but damn I can't ignore how compelling this scene is set up -- even…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 10:26AMTuesday, September 27, 2011
Sorry guys... it's me plugging the work I do again. I think you should come, so you'll understand what I do and why I'm passionate about theater and stuff.
ORGANS OF STATE
PRESENTS
FIGH…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 07:59PMI'm more than a little uncomfortable with the premise of this new Kevin Smith film -- it seems to lazily put into a single video every deep, nascent fear of the "Red States." The title, Red …
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 06:25PMI was very interested to read this article about associate artist schemes, because I'm writing a large article (possibly for HowlRound) about our company's recent big changes regarding how w…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 10:30AMMonday, September 26, 2011
Senator John Pastore: “Is there anything connected with the hopes of this accelerator that in any way involves the security of the country?”
Physicist Robert Rathburn Wilson: …
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 01:18PMSunday, September 25, 2011
I'm a sucker for a pretty speech. And God damn if I didn't get sucked into this when I saw it in the "Related Videos" on YouTube:He's the reason I bought a hat like that when I was a kid.
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 11:49PMIt turns out, that if you missed There They Were, you have another chance -- the solo performance show Going Stag on October 3rd at the Connelly Theater!
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 10:14AMSaturday, September 24, 2011
James Monaco'sTHERE THEY WEREThis is my fourth time seeing some iteration of James Monaco's work, and I feel absolutely no guilt in calling him one of the greatest storytellers in the world …
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 11:06PMEvan Watkins' and Andrew Farmer'sQUEEN OF THE MAYIt's already closed -- twice now -- but because it was an excellent piece of work, I feel it's necessary to write my thoughts upon it, becaus…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 10:36PMPipeline Theatre CompanyFELIX + THE DILIGENCESeptember 24th through October 8th(tickets)When actors come off the stage after a show, look me in the eye, and tell me they know exactly how muc…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 09:03PMThursday, September 15, 2011
99Seats hits it right on the money:Everything you want to know is contained in this right here, every single thing that's wrong with our theatre, the state of playwriting and why puppies die…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 03:01PMMonday, September 12, 2011
Here's an interesting story (h/t Howard Sherman):Mayor Rob Ford is planning a major overhaul of City Hall arts funding that would increase grants for cultural groups and slash art programs r…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 10:10AMSunday, September 11, 2011
THINGS LEFT BEHIND: ARTIFACTSMy theater company discussed all the different ways we remember loss. "Eulogies" are typically the created responses; just as affecting are the memorials that ar…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 01:16PMPresented without comment, someone who deeply cared: The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10cSeptember 11, 2001www.thedailyshow.comDaily Show Full EpisodesPolitical Humor &a…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 10:24AMThe day is here. I don't have very much to say personally about the day, but I would like to share this glimpse at what could have been.When I came to New York shortly after 9-11. I found ou…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 10:21AMSaturday, September 10, 2011
While I appreciate the value of wearing a ski helmet, I am concerned about the continuing and seemingly inexorable transfer of authority from parents to the state. Not every human problem d…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 11:20PM 
