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The Wedding That Wasn'tnew
How to back out of your wedding gracefully (sort of).
Eugene Weekly |
Camilla Mortensen |
01-23-2009 |
Culture
Middle Tennessee Jazz Station Faces the Axnew
A dynamo run out of a small studio on a university campus, WMOT-89.5 FM has long been the beating heart of Middle Tennessee's jazz scene, serving as a conduit for gigs, concert info and artist exposure. But if threatened budget cuts go through soon, the only jam session in Jazz 89's future will be on harps.
Nashville Scene |
Jim Ridley |
01-23-2009 |
Media
State of Street Art: Vandalism Or Legit, It's Not Going Awaynew
St. Louis is home to a budding street-art community and a talented group of graffiti-inspired gallery artists. But it's a precarious existence plagued by a broad range of conflicts. Yet the artists persist, hoping their hometown's resistance will eventually give way to understanding and acceptance.
Riverfront Times |
Keegan Hamilton |
01-23-2009 |
Art
The Yarn- and Felt-Covered Chairs of Tanya Aguiniganew
Sometimes a chair is not a chair. Sometimes it is a way to muck up the prevailing cultural orthodoxy, as well as a place to set your buttocks on and take a load off.
L.A. Weekly |
Gendy Alimurung |
01-23-2009 |
Culture
The Day the Music Died: The End of Indie 103.1new
Henry Rollins, music director Mark "Mr. Shovel" Sovel and DJ Darren Revell talk about the shutdown of LA's improbable and consistently surprising rock radio station.
L.A. Weekly |
Randall Roberts |
01-23-2009 |
Media
The Web Show for Misfit Teenage Girls and Women in Their 30s Who Like to Knitnew
Each five-minute weekly episode of Cute With Chris is now viewed by 100,000 to a million people, depending on where it lands on global search engines. As a result, Chris Leavins sardonically describes himself as both a cult leader and a microcelebrity.
L.A. Weekly |
Steven Leigh Morris |
01-23-2009 |
Tech
Firehouse Gallery Gets a Boost from Warholnew
At a time when financial news is almost uniformly grim, it’s a special pleasure to get a windfall. Burlington’s Firehouse Gallery did just that with the receipt of a $75,000 grant for exhibition support from the New York-based Andy Warhol Foundation.
Seven Days |
Pamela Polston |
01-23-2009 |
Art
Go Deep: Self-Taught Artists Exhibit at Memphis College of Artnew
A group of self-taught Memphis artists, not well-known in their own city but revered by folk-art aficionados around the world, are featured in Memphis College of Art's "Close to Home: African American Folk Art from Memphis Collectors."
The Memphis Flyer |
Carol Knowles |
01-23-2009 |
Art
Embracing Green Growth: L'eft Bank Wine's Bio-Fueled Fleetnew
Whether it's in the form of government regulation, consumer demand or simply one's conscience, concern about environmental sustainability is rearranging the way we do commerce. But making a strategic transition from traditional business to green business is fraught with challenges.
Shepherd Express |
Sarah Biondich |
01-23-2009 |
Food+Drink
Rising Homeless Population Finds a Way to Express Itselfnew
A Boulder cafe hosts an exhibit of work by homeless artists to raise funds for a local social services organization.
Boulder Weekly |
Dylan Otto Krider |
01-23-2009 |
Art
'Skate 2': Survival of the Fittestnew
Activision's Tony Hawk Pro Skater series was an ailing wildebeest, and EA Black Box's Skate was the speedy jungle cat that ran it down and tore out its throat. But Skate 2 is a robotic velociraptor covered in spikes and electricity that chases Activision's lumbering wildebeest, disembowels it, and defiles the corpse in ways both unholy and physically impossible.
The Portland Mercury |
Earnest "Nex" Cavalli |
01-22-2009 |
Video Games
Boozing Through the Ages: An Inebriated 'History' of Drinking in Portlandnew
Sure, we can drink. We can drink like champions. But that doesn't make us special. People have been drinking in Portland since it was little more than a hardscrabble tent town cut from the banks of the Willamette.
The Portland Mercury |
Patrick Alan Coleman |
01-22-2009 |
Food+Drink
Pilobolus Continues to Challenge Modern-Dance Conventionsnew
Although no longer young mavericks, the company's directors continue to challenge modern-dance conventions with their unique approach to making dances.
Tucson Weekly |
Gene Armstrong |
01-22-2009 |
Performance
Meet the Retrosexuals ... Againnew
Enabled by Facebook, more people are rewinding their own lives, digging into their past to emerge with a current romantic partner.
Portland Phoenix |
Deirdre Fulton |
01-22-2009 |
Culture
Stacy Keach Finds Sympathy for the Devilnew
“He was Satan personified,” says Stacy Keach, who has signed on to play our second-worst commander in chief in the national tour of Frost/Nixon.
Boston Phoenix |
Jim Sullivan |
01-22-2009 |
Theater
