Tag: Obama

  • Obama stiffs the arts?

    “Memo to President Obama, from the arts world: This is not what we had in mind. During the campaign, candidate Obama raised high hopes among artists and arts institutions: He […]

  • Culture Blogger Seeks MBA for Good Times and LTR.

    So now that I’ve discovered flyover i’m starting to get addicted. my original vision for Culturebot was to have this site be a portal/aggregator for a series of regional blogs […]

  • United States Secretary of the Arts

    Just got this email: People – Would you take a minute to sign in support of Quincy Jones’ brilliant idea for a US Secretary of the Arts? Quincy Jones has […]

  • Individuation vs. Self-Improvement

    So I was thinking about the financial industry bailout and the auto industry bailout and the subcontracting of the War in Iraq to companies like Blackwater. And I was thinking […]

  • The Election and the Arts

    The Future of Music Coalition (Hey Jean and Kristin!) has a thoughtful overview of the implications of the new administration vis-a-vis the arts which includes the following: Towards Sustainable Local […]

  • Phew! What a week!

    Okay so a quick wrap-up of the week that was: Monday – Columbus Day, I have no idea what I did. No idea. Worked. Tuesday – ETHEL’s Truck Stop at […]

  • STATEMENT ON THE ARTS BY MICHAEL CHABON

    In case, for some reason, last night’s debate didn’t firmly entrench you in the “McCain is a dangerously out of touch old man on the verge of keeling over and […]

  • McCain-Keating

    Don’t forget: Don’t forget that Lehman execs were getting payouts at the same time they were begging the Gov’t to bail them out. Don’t forget that most of these guys […]

  • Swing State Strategies

    Just got an email from Rachel Chavkin, thought I’d pass along: TEAM performer Frank Boyd and a friend of Frank’s and I went down to South Philly yesterday to volunteer […]