- John Stoehr
Arts Editor
There's more to art than you think. It's not just theater, paintings, books and dance. It's the enterprise of human creativity and it takes vastly different shapes and forms. Here you'll find my thoughts about the arts in Charleston and beyond. Neither of us knows what to expect.
Category Archives: Internet
Journal: Don’t believe the hype
November 21, 2007 – 2:52 pm
Classical music is dead. Long live classical music.
From “The Well-tempered Web: The Internet may be killing the pop CD, but it’s helping classical music,” by Alex Ross, published in the Oct. 22 issue of the New Yorker. For more on Ross and his new history of classical music in the 20th century, go to www.therestisnoise.com.
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Keen’s Cult of the Amateur
November 9, 2007 – 10:48 am
For those of you who get your weekend jollies watching BookTV on C-SPAN (like I do), you’ll want to know about the Authors@Google series if you don’t know already. These long talks by well-known writers and novelists are recorded and posted on YouTube and Google Video. Recent guests have included Neil Gaiman (Fragile Things and […]
After the Deluge
September 6, 2007 – 11:03 pm
After spending all day staring at a computer screen, it takes a lot to drag me in front of one again. My tired eyes aren’t used to reading books or comic strips on a monitor.
Sometimes, though, a story comes along that makes it worth switching my computer back on after supper. Brooklyn comic artist Josh […]
Mika Brzezinski bitch-slaps Paris
June 29, 2007 – 4:09 pm
Sick to death of the way the mainstream media is reporting on Paris as if there were no other earthshaking tragedies occurring in the world? So is MSNBC anchor Mika Brzezinski, apparently. This is priceless.
A new era for Millennium Music
May 15, 2007 – 4:27 pm
Interesting news from the gang at Millennium Music a few minutes ago. About two years ago, building owners PrimeSouth Real Estate made much of their annnounced plans to dynamite the building at King and Calhoun and put up — surprise! — a new condo development with some ground-floor retail (which didn’t include Millennium). The music […]
Go ahead, cyberpunk: make my day
May 6, 2007 – 5:23 pm
It’s not due out until Aug. 7, but I’m already salivating for William Gibson’s latest, Spook Country. His last novel, Pattern Recognition, was one of the high points of 2006 for me.
Spook Country: Tito is in his early twenties. Born in Cuba, he speaks fluent Russian, lives in one room in a NoLita warehouse, and […]
Seeking Weekly Geekly 3.0
May 2, 2007 – 2:36 pm
Well, it’s bad news here on the columnist front. I’ve just heard from my Weekly Geekly columnist Holly Burns — she of the red unmistakably toffee hair, British accent, and peripatetic lifestyle (she recently moved from Charleston to San Francisco via Southeast Asia, if you didn’t know this already by following her insanely popular expat […]
Roses for Daisey
April 25, 2007 – 1:40 pm
Two-time Spoleto veteran and monologuist Mike Daisey got a faceful of rejection last Thursday night when, only a few minutes into his show Invincible Summer, 87 members of the audience decided, all at once, that they were out like Sanjaya. On the way out, one of them dumped a bottle of water (Daisey’s, no less) […]
Hot to Trot
April 24, 2007 – 10:55 am
The Village Voice has a brilliantly funny graphical breakdown of exactly why rapper Mims’ single “This Is Why I’m Hot” is hot right now.
Exodus: or The Curious Case of the Incident in the Theatre
April 24, 2007 – 9:01 am
Two-time Spoleto Festival vet Mike Daisey got a shock last Friday night when, during a performance of his monologue Invincible Summer at the American Repertory Theater in Boston (he first performed it here for last year’s Spoleto program), 87 members of his audience stood up and walked out en masse. As the group marched wordlessly […]
