Trends & Style
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Why not Protopia?
Alicia talks about all that and The Ferment on her recent appearance on Troubadours and Raconteurs with E.W. Conundrum Demure. Read more.
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the artist as Servant
Is this where we are now? Intriguing essay on the general public’s mass perception of the artist. We’ve done away with the ridiculous Outsider Saint. But we’ve replaced him with… Read more.
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yes, we should
Shouldn’t we be perturbed that Hollywood is so ready to show human bodies being penetrated by a knife or an axe, but not by anything more pleasurable? via Let’s do… Read more.
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cultural censorship is anti-educational
Students are being deprived of the opportunity to discuss the world as it is in all its glory and tragedy. They grow up not knowing how to talk about controversial… Read more.
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there’s room for everyone in hip hop?
I’m not defending Miley, her choices look like desperation to me and it’s sad she can’t find a more productive way to challenge audiences if that’s what she’s aiming for.… Read more.
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maybe we need to stop for a minute
NPR’s Ann Powers makes a lot more sense of out the Cyrus video than I was able to in this insightful, if long, article from last week. Take this byte… Read more.
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The Trouble with Stuff @ Utne Reader
“There’s another shift emerging which offers some real opportunities for building support for the commons. People in the overconsuming parts of the world are getting fed up with the burden… Read more.
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“You’ve Been Steampunked” in American Theatre
The iconography favored by steampunkers—aeronaut goggles, stylized corsets, clockwork gears, mad-scientist laboratories cluttered with Industrial Revolution sprockets and pipes—has found its way into a number of recent stage productions. When… Read more.
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XOXO, ScrantonMade: An Evening of Gifts, Sips and Local Love
XOXO, ScrantonMade: An Evening of Gifts, Sips and Local Love will be held GreenBeing on Adam’s Avenue in conjunction with the Scranton’s First Friday Art Walk on Feb. 1. In… Read more.
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