JinHi Soucy Rand founded Muse Arts Warehouse just over three years ago, and in that short span the venue has proven indispensable to the Savannah arts community.
Mark your calendars for Muse Arts Warehouse fundraiser on April 8th
Category: Arts & Culture
Happy 88th Birthday, Flannery O’Connor
When an author has died young, it’s pretty typical to hear readers bemoan the loss of all that work that never had the chance to be created. But I don’t often hear readers of Flannery O’Connor talk about what she…
Kathleen Parker on Steubenville, Eddie Adams, Kitty Genovese, social media and the bystander effect
A really provocative column today in the Washington Post by Kathleen Parker: Steubenville, social media and the bystander effect. From that piece: With a cellphone in every pocket, it has become second nature for most people to snap a picture…
Nate Silver gives Louisville 22.7% chance of taking NCAA men’s championship
Maybe now that Nate Silver is researching and writing about topics beyond the presidential race, some of the doubters will get a sense for the FiveThirtyEight statistician’s nuanced use of numbers. Those of us who trusted Silver’s work in making…
“CBGB” filmmakers post a preview clip (embedded here)
“These Birds Walk” — a documentary about runaways in Pakistan — draws raves at SXSW
I first posted something about These Birds Walk last June, so I’m updating and adding to that post here. One of the most interesting things about getting older: seeing the amazing work your old friends do. Omar Mullick wasn’t even…
Get ready for Facebook’s newly designed news feed
Well I don’t know what to think of this. As someone who is increasingly using Facebook as a PR tool for this blog (you can “like” my page in the right sidebar) and as someone who posts a significant number…
I am no longer the Man About Town
Yes, this is an exhibit of human hair
From Tyler Akers’ event description of “Adulio Pitaksalok” at Non-Fiction Gallery here in Savannah: Hair serves as a synecdoche for understanding the meaning of self and other, subject and object. The mimetic processes of hair modification separate and connect members…
The New Republic on Aaron Swartz: “So Open It Hurts”
From So Open It Hurts: What the Internet did to Aaron Swartz, a great piece by Noam Scheiber in The New Republic: Tim Berners-Lee, the MIT professor whose bio immodestly (if accurately) claims he “invented the World Wide Web,†met…
Interview with “Punk Magazine” founder John Holmstrom about “CBGB” the movie
Video of the short behind-the-scenes interview plus a reprise of some of my pics from the set last summer.
A few thoughts on the Oscars, Seth MacFarlane, and The Onion
I normally don’t pay much attention to the Oscars, and I certainly had not seen most of this year’s nominated films, so I didn’t have much stake in Sunday night’s ceremony. I’m so out of step with the times that…
5th annual Francophone Film Festival kicks off tonight at Armstrong
There’s a lot going on these days at Armstrong Atlantic State University. CNN was recently on campus for major coverage of immigration issues, there’s a significant new academic initiative for first-year students called First Class, American Idol winner Phillip Phillips…
Looking at the street photography of Vivian Maier
Sometimes I feel really out of it. I follow a lot of economic and political news. I analyze a lot of census data. I keep in touch as best I can with some trends in contemporary music and try to…