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Et in Arcadia Ego

The Dude: "Look, nothing is fucked, here, man."The Big Lebowski: "Nothing is fucked?! The goddamn plane has crashed into the mountain!!"— The Big LebowskiDealbreaker.com did a nice job yesterday quoting the I-Ching of all earthly wisdom, The Big Lebowski, in its blog post title referring to Drew Faust's November 10th letter to faculty, students, and staff of Harvard University.In a remarkable and surprisingly realistic appraisal of the Stanford of the East's financial prospects now that the cr

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Make Space for Artists: Design-a-Studio

Guest blogger Sarah Jane Semrad is Executive Director of La Reunion TX. Collaboration. It’s not just a way to generate ideas and maximize resources… For La Reunion TX, it’s a way to create focus group! Please join us Thursday, Nov. 6 at 7 p.m. in the Center for Creative Connections as we present to North Texas “Make Space for Artists : Design-a-Studio” at the Dallas Museum of Art. Remember Make Space for Art? That’s the international juried architecture program La Reunion TX held last year and

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regional roundup: austin, texas!

yee-haw! it’s time for our next regional roundup! in our quest to feature smaller, yet thriving design scenes, our latest installment takes us to austin, texas. perhaps know best for their vibrant music scene and south by southwest festival (that has grown to include other forms of media beyond music), austin is full of creative folks. so to get this roundup started, we contacted d*s favorite, alyson fox to help get the ball rolling (and we really must thank all the designers for connecting u

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Broadening Our Horizons Book by Book

I’ve been thinking lately about the many reasons I not only love to write nonfiction, but also love to read it. The reasons I have now, as an adult, are really no different than the ones I had when I was a young reader. I lived not far from a major city, but not in it, either, so although I had my share of metropolitan cultural experiences, I couldn’t wander into a major art museum any time I felt like it. Most of the time, books were the way in. And not just the way in to museums, oh no, but to

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Second Annual Maker Faire This Weekend

The New York Times summed up Maker Faire better than I could ever hope to: “At first blush…this festival, sponsored by Make magazine, is a gathering place of pyromaniacs and noise junkies, the multiply pierced and the extensively tattooed. But wander a while, and the showy surface gives way to a wondrous thing: the gathering of folks from all walks of life who blend science, technology, craft and art to make things goofy and grand.” Featuring arts & crafts, science & engineering, ro

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What’s Up Austin: The Weekend Line-up for 10/11/08

What’s Up Austin: The Weekend Line-up for 10/11/08 by Kyla Myers It looks like it’s going to be a beautiful weekend to be out and about in our wonderful city. I don’t know about you but I just love this time of year. The weather has cooled down and yet it’s still sunny. I throw open the windows and enjoy the breeze. What better to do at this time of year than to attend a pumpkin festival? Is there any other thing that symbolizes fall than the pumpkin? Lucky for you it’s once again time for El

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Weekend Picks!

Seclusiasis presents Laptop Battle 2008 North Star Bar, 27th and Poplar Potentially danceable sounds from loudly competing Powerbooks. 10pm, $8. Halloween 2, Eaten Alive International House, 3701 Chestnut October freakout styles with the Exhumed team. John Carpenter’s ‘81 Voorhees sequel and Tobe Hooper’s followup to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. 9pm, $10. Marisa Olson Break-Up Album (Demo) Vox Populi, 319 N 11th. A ton of other First Friday stuff happens this weekend, but for my no-mo

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Wanda Jackson nominated for Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

September 22, 2008 News   Wanda Jackson has been nominated for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: Metallica, Run-D.M.C. and the Stooges lead the list of nine acts up for induction next year into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Five will be chosen in January for enshrinement during an April 4 ceremony at Cleveland’s Public Hall. Also on this year’s ballot are Jeff Beck, Chic, Wanda Jackson, Little Anthony and the Imperials, War and Bobby Womack. Acts are not eligible for the Rock Hall until at leas

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Benefit for Brennan's

Benefit for Brennan's. Photo courtesy of Flickr user eschipul. Hurricane Ike rolls into the Museum District late last Friday night. Photo courtesy of Flickr user J-a-x. The JP Morgan Chase tower in downtown Houston, which sustained the brunt of Ike's damage when pea gravel from a neighboring tower's roof was propelled through its windows during the high winds. The photo is best viewed in its original extra-large size. Photo courtesy of Flickr user telwink. Ike darkens the skies an

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What’s Up Austin: The Weekend Line-up for 9/13/08

What’s Up Austin: The Weekend Line-up for 9/13/08 by Kyla Myers I was out and about today. That was a mistake. Every place I went was crowded. You’d think there was a hurricane headed our way. Heh. I was in Pasedena, Tx earlier this week taking a cake decorating class with Debbie Brown. I’m very glad I got out of town Wednesday night. At the time they didn’t think the hurricane was going to hit Galveston, which I was very close to, but now we know differently and Galveston is looking scarier by

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Georges Jones Among 2008 Kennedy Center Honorees

George Jones joins Barbra Streisand, Morgan Freeman, Twyla Tharp, Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey as the 2008 class of Kennedy Center Honorees–the nation’s highest arts award. “I am completely overwhelmed,” Jones said in a statement. “I can’t believe that I have been included in the same company as previous winners that are country music legends: Dolly Parton, Johnny Cash, Loretta Lynn, Roy Acuff and Willie Nelson. Since I was a young man, I have done just what I love, and that is sing count

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In Venues Throughout the World Seventh Annual September Concert to Fill Skies With Music on September 11.

NEW YORK, Sept. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- On September 11, 2008, across America and around the world, the skies will come alive with music as The September Concert Foundation sponsors its seventh annual celebration of peace and shared humanity. On that day professional and amateur musicians will perform classical music, jazz, rock & roll -- all kinds of music in all kinds of venues -- from the front of the New York Stock Exchange to Keystone Park in Elkader, Iowa, from Grosvenor Square in London to the

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Istanbul s Pera and Taksim Area and the Significance of its Hotels for the City

Istanbul s Pera and Taksim Area and the Significance of its Hotels for the City Istanbul s modern city center, Taksim has gained its reputation of being the heart of the living city not only because of its convenient location but also because of many different cultural, historic and artistic attractions that it offers to the travelers. The hotels located in this part of the city is significant to the development that the city has witnessed in the last 4 decades. Taksim Square derives its name

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IN REMEMBRANCE: 8-24-2008

Jump to Comments REP. STEPHANIE TUBBS JONES, LAWMAKER       By DENNIS HEVESI Published: August 20, 2008     Stephanie Tubbs Jones, the first African-American woman elected to the House of Representatives from Ohio and a leader in the fight against predatory lending practices, died Wednesday. She was 58.           Mark Wilson/Getty Images Representative Stephanie Tubbs Jones of Ohio in 2005. Related The Caucus: Ohio Congresswoman Dies (August 20, 2008) The cause was a ruptured brain aneur

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September Michigan Event Calendar

Ready for the Harvest by lpwines Say hello to September and enjoy the bountiful harvests and beautiful scenery it brings. September is a perfect time to enjoy the outdoors with it's warm days and cool evening temperatures (not to mention the declining mosquito population). As far as things to do in the Great Lakes State September is ripe for the picking. So get out and enjoy the harvest celebrations, color tours, wine trails and the abundant festivals and fairs! As usual we by no means have

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Wax Museum: MP3s from the Americans of '71 (and ''72), Bobby Bland and Bobby & the Premiers

The Americans of ’71, “The Cancer Stick, Part 1” And you thought it was only in the ‘80s when people got all self-conscious and started with the anti-smoking rhetoric - but Houston’s the Americans of ’71 were doing it back in, well, 1971. This talented local group probably had the most interesting naming scheme in Houston; as the years changed, so did its name. They began as the Americans of ’68 with “Baby Baby Baby” (Ovide) and became the Americans of ’70 for “Toe Hold” (Libra). Far and

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p.s.  Hey.  Things have improved on my end. Last night Yury suddenly perked up and suggested we go to Mont St. Michel for a day.  I was game, and so today we'll be finding out if such a thing would be feasible to do tomorrow at the last minute.  If so, Thursday's post will appear much earlier than usual, and the p.s. won't be anything more than a quick hello.  If we can't sort out the day trip, tomorrow will be business as usual.  Also, I should give you a heads up about the imminent blog vacati

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Celebrating 50 years since Dockum; Reflections on the 50th Anniversary Commemoration

I waited a couple days before writing this post; partly out of exhaustion, and partly out of a desire to sit back and appreciate what had just taken place. On Saturday, August 9th, we celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Dockum Sit-in, and despite the many challenges the celebration was everything we'd hoped it would be... 9 of the original sit-in participants along with Ms. Rosie Hughes, who served as the Youth Council advisor, were on hand for the day's festivities. The morning was set to

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August 2-8

*denotes part of our Roots and Branches series *American Routes - Big Voices with k.d. Lang & Topsy Chapman From shouters to chanteuses, R&B melisma to the high lonesome sound of bluegrass, this week we bring you some of the biggest voices on the American soundscape. Neo-retro vocalist k.d. Lang comes by to talk about her loves and influences from 50’s country to smoky lounge music. New Orleans singer Topsy Chapman tells us how a stint as a singing waitress on Bourbon Street and growi

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Gatemouth Brown Needs a Gravestone

Verve Records One of my favorite blues songs of all time is Blind Lemon Jefferson's "See That My Grave Is Kept Clean." Especially these lyrics: Did you ever hear that coffin sound Means another poor boy is under the ground Creepy! Jefferson's song has been covered by many, many people over the years, like Houston's own Lightnin' Hopkins, the Grateful Dead, Canned Heat, Bob Dylan and even Lou Reed: Anyway, all that is just a roundabout way of saying that while legendary Gulf Coast count

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