128 stories by "Culturefuture"
Previous installments: I, II, III,
IV, V, VI, an update, and VII
The NYPD Disorder Control Memo leaked on Gothamist contains this point as point #1:
"A strong military appearance, with s…
"There but for the grace of God go I."
Lesson #1:
The remaining students, who far outnumber the contingent of police, slowly start to encircle the officers while chanting "Shame on you!" The chants get louder and more menacing a…
A lot of buzz on the internet around the bills being debated in the House and Senate (with broad, bipartisan support) that would allow the Government to issue take-down notices to websites, …
From Jeremy at CultureBot:
Don't be suckered. The idea of the critic that Kaiser laments isn't the idealized public intellectual he tries to paint a picture of. This "serious" critic of "se…
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.
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…
I 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…
Catching 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, …
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 "Rep…
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…
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)
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…
So, 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…
Honestly, 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…
Hey 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…
So, 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…
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…
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 …
The other videos by this man are equally insightful.
1) 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…
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…
I'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 …
I 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…
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: "No …
