And the Beat Goes on… a...

Last month, the Austrian Cultural Forum, the Argento New Music Project, the Music Information Center Austria (MICA), and Le Poisson Rouge jointly presented Moving Sounds 2009, a festival “devoted to sound and its roles in contemporary music.” The three-day festival, which sought to bring together artists working with sound across different media and genres, featured several concerts of works by “classical” composers as well as by DJs, an art installation at the Austrian Cultural Forum, panel discussions, and parties. In order to get a taste of the festival, I attended concerts on September 12 and 13 and one of the panels on the afternoon of September13.

Kings and Queens

County of Kings. Written and performed by Lemon Andersen. At the Public Theater. A Boy and His Soul. Written and performed by Colman Domingo. At the Vineyard Theater. I recently showed my students some clips of documentary and political theatre, including Moisés Kaufman’s The Laramie...

The End of Print–...

Losing the News: The Future of the News that Feeds Democracy by Alex S. Jones. Oxford University Press (2009) “I don’t read the newspaper, I get my news online” is a phrase heard so often, it could be considered the battle cry of the digital-age. And as with any battle, this one is...

Our Planet, Our Selves

The End of Food by Paul Roberts. Houghton Mifflin (2008) Threshold: The Crisis of Western Culture by Thom Hartmann. Viking Press (2009) As we move closer to the tipping point of climate change, where we’ll lose control of our ability to influence atmospheric conditions on Earth, it’s...

The GC Advocate Guide t...

Let’s face it. The pickings in this year’s mayoral race are pretty slim. Bloomberg has outspent every other candidate in the field by a good $60 million, and the Democrats have hardly put their best foot forward by nominating the lackluster underdog Bill Thompson. Meanwhile, the...