- 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: News
Tampa’s gain is Charleston’s loss
September 23, 2008 – 4:08 pm
Todd Smith, the former director of the Gibbes Museum of Art, came to Charleston in 2006 to build a new museum.
Then he discovered something he hadn’t expected — it was going to take him a decade to do it.
Why?
Because there are those who sit on the museum’s board of directors who want it to move [...]
Novelist Omar Tyree to read at Books-A-Million
September 23, 2008 – 2:34 pm
This just in. Please forgive the PR-speak . . .
I hope you’ve received the copy I sent of Omar Tyree’s novel PECKING ORDER (Pub date: September 23). New York Times bestselling author Omar Tyree is the winner of the 2001 NAACP Image Award winner for Outstanding Literature in Fiction and the 2006 Phillis Wheatley Literary [...]
Work with Channing Tatum and Amanda Seyfried on Dear John
September 23, 2008 – 2:30 pm
Just got this. Local actors take note . . .
EMAIL: dearjohncasting@gmail.com
BODY: For Immediate Release
Re: Movie Dear John
SEEKING BACKGROUND FOR DEAR JOHN
For those interested in working as background on the motion picture adaptation of the Nicholas Sparks novel Dear John but were unable to attend the casting call, it is not too late!!!!!!
Production is still [...]
Charleston native wins “genius grant”
September 22, 2008 – 11:05 pm
A native of Charleston and a descendant of the Gullah community has been chosen to receive one of the most prestigious prizes in America.
Mary Jackson, a resident of Johns Island who grew up in Mt. Pleasant, is one of 25 winners of the MacArthur Foundation’s annual “genius grant,” a fellowship given to creative individuals distinguished [...]
New music by Mozart
September 18, 2008 – 4:59 pm
Sorta. This from the Associated Press about an hour ago . . .
A French museum has found a previously unknown piece of music handwritten by Mozart, a researcher said Thursday. The 18th century melody sketch is missing the harmony and instrumentation but was described as an important find.
Full story
What happens to the arts when the banking industry takes a crap?
September 18, 2008 – 10:16 am
From today’s Washington Post . . .
With Wall Street in a shame spiral, “What’s coming next?” is a question that has everyone in the arts community taking big, anxious gulps. Lehman may never hand out another charitable dime; the immediate future of the firm’s philanthropic foundation, like everything else about it, is now [...]
New study: Gamers aren’t anti-social containers of pent up violence
September 18, 2008 – 9:45 am
The News Factor Network reports today on a new study by the Pew Internet & American Life Project that found that 76 percent of teenage gamers play with others online at least some of the time, with 65 percent playing with others in the same room. The study, released yesterday, also found that gamers aren’t [...]
Almost there: All-digital TV
September 18, 2008 – 9:35 am
Lawmakers See Challenges for TV Transition
Washington Post, 9/17/2008
“In the next five months, federal officials preparing Americans for the conversion to digital television have to clear up reception glitches, sort out problems with hooking up converter boxes and find a way to make sure coupons for those converters get to the viewers who need them.”
New 990s for nonprofits
September 18, 2008 – 9:33 am
IRS Releases New Form 990-EZ
Chronicle of Philanthropy, 9/10/2008
“The Internal Revenue Service today [September 10] released the latest version of its Form 990-EZ, the short version of its informational tax form for groups with 2008 receipts of less than $1-million.”
David Foster Wallace is dead
September 14, 2008 – 6:31 pm
Sad, sad news from the Associated Press …
David Foster Wallace, the author best known for his 1996 novel “Infinite Jest,” was found dead in his home, according to police. He was 46.
Wallace’s wife found her husband had hanged himself when she returned home about 9:30 p.m. Friday, said Jackie Morales, a records clerk with [...]
