- 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: Weblogs
What the candidates want to do for the arts
February 14, 2008 – 5:32 pm
From Dancer Universe . . .
Barack Obama:
Supports increasing funding for the NEA from $125 million to $175 million annually
Wants to expand both public and private partnerships between schools and arts organizations
Supports the creation of an “Artists Corp” to work in low-income communities
Promotes cultural diplomacy (send performance artists abroad)
Welcomes international artists […]
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) […]
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
