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The business of sports and the culture of deceit
The two American sports personalities that caught our attention last week couldn’t be more different. One was a star ascendant, whose future couldn’t have been brighter. And the other was already far into his downward spiral, tarnished by suspicion and … Continue reading
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Tagged culture, cycling, deceit, football, Lance Armstrong, lies, Mante Te'o, Notre Dame, Oprah Winfrey, sports
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A new look at Mozart
We learned this week that we have another look at the face of history’s most talented composer. This undated 18th-century portrait has been identified by Austrian researchers as one of just 14 known likenesses of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. This painting … Continue reading
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Tagged Amadeus Mozart, classical composers, culture, enlightenment, music, what is culture?
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Les Mis will unman us all
I dreamed a dream where I could go to the movies without publicly embarrassing myself. I’m a highly empathetic person, you see. When I see pain, I feel pain. And although I’m thoroughly masculine—truly as masculine as masculine can be—my … Continue reading
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Tagged Anne Hathaway, culture, film, hemingway, jon stewart, Les Misérables, literature, Michael Gerson, Shakespeare, Victor Hugo, what is culture?
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I culture you: A cigar for the end of the world
How will the end come? If the prophecies be true, will there be roars and tumults, crashing and burnings…? Or will we all just blink out? Call it 50/50 either way. Betting odds, enough, that I’m laying in one special … Continue reading
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Tagged 2012, Cifuentes, I culture you, mayan apocalypse, Partagas 1845, prophecy, what is culture?
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RIP to two elder statesmen of the Arts
We lost two of the greats yesterday. We might console ourselves knowing they both lived to ripe old ages, and if they didn’t give us their all, in terms of their art, then they gave us so much that it’s … Continue reading
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Tagged architecture, Art, arts, Dave Brubeck, jazz, jazz piano, RIP, United Nations, what is culture?
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I culture you: Music to write by
That headline comes with a huge asterisk: it’s music I write by. That’s all I can speak to. When I undertook to culture you on art, I began by telling you that art is subjective, emphatic period. That goes double … Continue reading
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Tagged culture, I culture you, music to write by, Pachelbel Canon in D, Rob Paravonian, what is culture?
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Plugging and playing
Update on the previously self-plugged blog experiment, The Plug and Play Life: Those playing along at home might remember that the goal was to breed long-format fiction with Tumblr, to see if a neverending story couldn’t be told, down through … Continue reading
RIP: Hector Camacho’s Brain
Hector “Macho” Camacho is brain dead. The headline above may sound flippant, but with all respect to Mr. Camacho, to his friends and family and to his millions of fans, no flippancy is intended. I’m just trying to make this … Continue reading
Save the pupfish
What is culture? By one definition it’s a thriving petri dish. That’s a metaphor for human culture for only the most cynical among us. If you can intervene to stop an extinction, should you? That’s a question that science journalist … Continue reading
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Tagged Cyprinodon diabolis, Devil's Hole, Hillary Rosner, pupfish, Wired Magazine, Wired.com
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What the world needs now is more frackin’ Cylons
If you’re not a sci-fi fan, then you’re probably not much interested in, nor have you seen, Ronald Moore’s 2004-2009 Battlestar Galactica series. And that’s a pity, because it’s not for nothing that Time Magazine has named it one of … Continue reading
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Tagged ABC, Battlestar Galactica, Blood & Chrome, Caprica, fracking cylons, Ronald Moore, SciFi Channel, SyFy
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Election liveblog (a long night ahead…)
Well here we go then. Polls have closed in a slew of eastern states (including my own) and the tabulations have begun. Let’s start digging into this thing… 11:17pm: Shutting this thing down now, with congratulations to President Barack Obama. … Continue reading
Election 2012 – liveblogging the results
This space is supposed to be reserved for only the most highbrowed discussion of art, literature, and culture. Yet again and again, we wade into the morass of political culture…probably solely because of our love of oxymorons. So…once more unto … Continue reading
In the bullseye here in the Buckeye State
The phone won’t stop ringing. Earlier in the cycle the calls were all from familiar voices, the candidates themselves or their smooth-talking celebrity surrogates. Here in the final push days, the types of calls are changing, getting more aggressive. They’re … Continue reading
Wanna see something really scary?
On any other day, if you’re asked that question, let the lessons of the cinema be your guide, and say ‘no thanks.’ Ah, but today is Halloween, or Samhain for ye traditionalists. It is as they say the time when … Continue reading
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Tagged Halloween, horror, Samhain, scary, Twilight Zone The Movie, video, Youtube
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