- 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
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 [...]
Koyaanisqatsi on the morning commute
April 22, 2007 – 4:53 pm
There’s a fantastic article over at The Washington Post from a couple of weeks back I’ve been meaning to post about because it’s amazing. In a brash, brilliant public experiment, the editors of the newspaper arranged for a violinist to play as a busker in the L’Enfant Plaza Station of the Washington Metro at morning [...]
Yes, Virginia, there is a God
April 18, 2007 – 3:24 pm
Thirty-two dead in Blacksburg. One hundred and eighty-three massacred in Baghdad. Overdosing on tragedy coverage? Turn that frown upside down: the ten worst album covers of all time. (You’re welcome.) —PS
