Maybe: “We want the promise that everything is going to be O.K. … We want the joy back. We’ve moved away from the dark Edison bulb toward something bright.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ Pulled From Mississippi Eighth Grade Classroom Due To ‘Uncomfortable Language’
Was it pulled because of its use of the ‘n-word’? That seems to be the case, but the reason is not clear. “Kenny Holloway, vice president of the Biloxi School Board said, ‘There were complaints about it. There is some language in the book that makes people uncomfortable, and we can teach the same lesson with other books.'”
Immersive Theatre, The Final Frontier: Your Living Room
Or your basement, if you’re the producers of these immersive theatre nights in the Bay Area. What if you and the other 20 people there hate the show? Well, there’s food. “Preshow offerings include wine, cheese and charcuterie. Postshow a whole buffet is served.”
Lawrence Argent, Sculptor Of Whimsical, Massive Public Art, Has Died At 60
The sculptor, who placed a massive bear outside the Colorado Convention Center in 2005, said in 2013, “Public art gives you a chance to embrace peace and inquisitiveness. … You become a part of it, and you’re changed.”
Finding ‘Allah’ In Viking Graves Opens Questions About Scandinavian History
For one thing, “the evidence, she added, supported the theory that the Viking settlements in the Malar Valley of Sweden were, in fact, a western outpost of the Silk Road that stretched through Russia to silk-producing centers east of the Caspian Sea.” But was there a deeper cultural and religious exchange as well?
The Banjo Player (And ‘Genius’ Award-Winner) Writing What’s Touted As The Next ‘Hamilton’
Rhiannon Giddens, who was a founding member of the Carolina Chocolate Drops, is writing a musical based on a series of events in 1898 in Wilmington, North Carolina, and centering it around the music of the time. She says, “for me, the heart of American music is in this moment of white and black sort of coming together. Maybe that’s simplistic, but to me it is a symbol of the best of what we do culturally.”
Book Stories Often Have Links To Amazon, But Why?
One indie bookstore representative wonders what the ever-loving heck: “Even as people seek out the expertise of indie booksellers, they treat Amazon as the default for book links. Bloggers write about shopping local while linking to Amazon. Authors appeal to bookstores for book tours and sales but announce their books on Facebook with Amazon links (yes, even for a book titled How to Find Love in a Bookshop).”
The Artist Inspired By National Geographic Explorers
Artist Dianna Cohen says that oceanographer Sylvia Earle helped inspire her to found her biggest art project: A non-profit that’s working on cleaning up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
Scotland Yard Is Now Investigating Rape Claims Against Harvey Weinstein
“A team of officers has been established to look into the alleged crimes, which are said to have taken place in London between 2010 and 2015, as well as an allegation of sexual assault previously passed on to the Metropolitan police by detectives from Merseyside police, which relates to the late 1980s.”
Music Journalism Is Surviving Not In Papers, But In That Other Print Form: Books
Well, that’s happening in Canada, anyway: “Books on music are hardly new, but the recent flurry of new titles is part of a broader cultural shift – a nascent one, with kinks to work out. New authors are working with small, scrappy publishers to get these stories into the world. With hope, this won’t all be a blip and we’ll be treated to long treatises on Canadian pop for years to come. There should be time for growing pains.”