- 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: Media
The latest in net neutrality
July 24, 2008 – 7:57 am
Kevin Martin, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, said last week he would seek “enforcement action” against Comcast Corp. for slowing down internet traffic due to users downloading movies and other media, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer. “You can’t limit consumers that way,” he told a news conference in Washington, D.C. The announced is seen […]
PBS synonymous with the ARTS?
July 24, 2008 – 7:53 am
PBS president and CEO Paula Kerger told the TV Critics Association last week that she wants to bring the arts back to television. She said people with interest in the arts, and those with no access to them, are not being served by the rest of broadcast media, according to a report by the Canwest […]
Colbert comments in the Times re: New Yorker’s Obama cover
July 15, 2008 – 11:07 am
It’s hard to make a joke about a politician like Barack Obama when he appears to be without flaws, says an assortment of comedians in today’s New York Times. The article was sparked by the childish outcry of both Obama’s and McCain’s camps about the New Yorker’s cover, which depicts Obama as a Muslim and […]
Why can’t Joe Queenan write like this for an American daily newspaper?
July 10, 2008 – 8:17 am
Why can’t we have this kind of debate in American newspapers? Why does American critic and satirist Joe Queenan have to file with a British newspaper to write like this? The way things are going with American media, we need to start thinking like this.
You’d think newspapers would be a natural place for it would […]
Even Rocky D says Indy nuked the fridge
July 8, 2008 – 11:55 am
I don’t expect most to know about his column. I don’t expect serious-minded readers to take him all that seriously. Even so, RadioFree Rocky D, the conservative talk-show host at WTMA, is among the many people who’ve seen the new Indiana Jones movie and can’t come to believe that it’s possible to survive a nuclear […]
My new name? “Some.”
June 12, 2008 – 12:24 pm
Jeffrey Day, of The State newspaper, wrote a piece that ran in today’s paper about Charles Wadsworth, the director of Spoleto’s chamber music series since 1977, who announced his retirement last weekend after the 2009 festival.
Day writes that “some” speculated that this would happen after Geoff Nuttall, the principal violinist of the St. Lawrence String […]
Pulitzer-winner Tim Page hired as P&C’s Spoleto overview critic
April 22, 2008 – 4:12 pm
Tim Page, the much-respected and award-winning classical music critic for the Washington Post, will be the Spoleto overview critic for The Post and Courier this year.
Steve Mullins, managing editor of the P&C, issued a press release to area media today with details about the daily newspaper’s hiring of the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and author. The […]
No advanced screening of Iron Man — the new reality
April 17, 2008 – 9:55 am
Yep, Hollywood is increasingly cutting critics off from advanced screenings of movies. Such is the case with Iron Man, much-anticipated among those of us who love Stan Lee’s Tony Stark. Critics have been told all over the country that there will be no pre-screenings of the movie (you can guess with some measure of confidence […]
Critics hurt Comcast’s feelings over issue of ‘net neutrality’
April 17, 2008 – 8:12 am
In this report by the Associated Press, a spokesperson for Comcast admits that the company hired a gaggle of “seat warmers” during the first inquiry into the principle of “net neutrality” held at Harvard University in February. The company was widely criticized for the move.
Comcast also came under fire after the Harvard hearing for hiring […]
Going to Kulture Klash? Watch this.
April 16, 2008 – 8:51 am
Check out these guys using hi-tech to make graffiti art bigger and potentially more subversive. You can thank me later. -JS
