The retreat has outpaced his wildest predictions. He had predicted that one glacier, Chacaltaya, would last until 2020. It disappeared this year. In 2006, he said El Alto water demand would outstrip supply by 2009. It happened. read the rest at the NY TIMES.
Name: Corey Dargel Title/Occupation: composer & singer/songwriter URL: http://automaticheartbreak.com 1. Where did you grow up and how did you end up where you are now? I was born and raised in South Texas, the Rio Grande Valley. It took me a few years to realize
Frank Rich has a great column in the Times about the new George Clooney movie Up In The Air: “Up in the Air” is not a political movie. It won’t be mistaken for either a Michael Moore or Ayn Rand polemic on capitalism. What makes
A new report released by the National Endowment for the Arts said that the number of American adults attending arts and cultural events has sunk to its lowest level since 1982, which was when the NEA began conducting the poll. read the rest at CultureMonster.
In the NY TIMES week ahead section they highlighted the upcoming showing of REPO MAN at Lincoln Center saying, REPO MAN “could serve as a manifesto for much of American independent film over the succeeding 25 years.” I made a similar argument in an article
Now the economic downturn has reined in a lot of these big dreams and has also led to questions about whether ambitious building projects from Buffalo to Berkeley ever made sense to begin with. Some are arguing that arts administrators and their patrons succumbed to
“but oh, that stage…. To this day when I see or hear Nutcracker music playing it has a huge influence on me…”
kickin’ it electronica style:
If you want a taste of old, weird NYC you need to hightail it up to Mimi’s restaurant on 2nd ave b/w 52nd and 53rd st. to check out Hunter Blue a/k/a Chicken Delicious. Mimi’s is a madcap and always lively restaurant and bar that
Culturebot went live on December 1, 2003 so this is our SIXTH YEAR on the interwebs. If you would like to donate some money, now would be a great time to do it. I did my first FIVE QUESTIONS mini-interview on December 30, 2003, it
I keep trying to write this story and I don’t know where to begin or how to proceed. Maybe, certainly, I should have taken better notes. But all the notes in the world would still have left me struggling for words to describe the past
Name: Aynsley Vandenbroucke Title/Occupation: Choreographer http://www.movementgroup.org and Artistic Director of Mount Tremper Arts: http://www.mounttremperarts.org/ 1. Where did you grow up and how did you end up where you are now? I grew up in Chicago and L.A. My father worked in theater so I grew