News & Notes

  • Have some respect, please

    Editorial

    This is simple but in two parts. Bear with me and forgive me its contradictions.

    First, to artists: Could you...

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  • Out there in the dark

    Editorial
    Heart of the Beast: La Natividad

    In the Heart of the Beast's audience is a very friendly bunch. Theatergoers visited openly in the lobby before La...

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  • Who? Where? What?

    Editorial

    Though the razzle-dazzle of Hollywood commercials often confuse us, the live performing arts are a retail business, in many ways...

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  • $hiny object$

    Editorial

    Go to your next job interview in jammies. I dare you. The lesson you’ll learn: Our society judges books by...

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  • Watch out

    Editorial

    “The stream and the broken pottery: what was any art but an effort to make a sheath, a mould in...

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  • Excerpt from “You Asked For It”

    Editorial

    Produced by the Neo-Futurists. Chicago. 2007.

    [As the audience enters a slide reading “You Asked For It!: America’s Most Wanted...

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  • Electric Arc Radio

    Editorial

    [Lights up on writer STEPHANIE WILBUR ASH and musician DAVE SALMELA of the Electric Arc Radio Show meeting for...

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  • Humans with pulses

    Editorial

    I’m teaching a class to a group of teens. The class is designed to walk them through the entire process...

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  • Decisions, decisions

    Editorial

    (Author's note: Apologies for the questionable audio quality in spots. I thought it was a good idea to conduct an...

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  • Doing data

    Editorial

    I admit it. I like data.

    Two years ago, I wrote a thesis for my master’s degree on the relationship...

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  • They, the people

    Editorial

    Over the last twenty years, the United States has experienced a shift in the profile of its art lovers. So-called...

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