ART & ACTIVISM Solutions Volume 2 Showcases Innovative Design, Art, Activism Back in May, I recommended the first Solutions showcase as a great way to channel your creative energy and transform gripes into proposals. Now, it’s time for Solutions Volume 2, where leading edge designers, architects, artists, and activists — “solutionists” all — will present … Read more
The tentative deal between the Pioneer Press’s newspaper guild and Dean Singleton’s MediaNews doesn’t look so hot at first glance — the guild agreed to a pension freeze, a one-time vacation concession and significant changes to its medical and disability plans in return for a paltry two to three percent raise. [The entire agreement is … Read more
Fuck. Shit. Damn. It’s OK, folks. Swearing at work ‘boosts team spirit, morale.’
The Economist has an interesting article this week on Social Networking.
This just in: Dean Singleton’s PiPress and the newspaper guild have a tentative deal. Here’s the memo: October 18, 2007 Guild, Pioneer Press reach tentative agreement on 4-year contract After three days of intensive, off-the-record talks, the Guild and the Saint Paul Pioneer Press reached agreement late Wednesday on a four-year contract covering 340 employees. … Read more
Check out the new trailer for the kaleidoscopic Bob Dylan biopic, I’m Not There. The film stars Cate Blanchett, Christian Bale, Marcus Carl Franklin, Heath Ledger, Richard Gere, and Ben Whishaw as Bob in the various stages of his career.
We’ve all seen movies with monsters — aliens, masked serial-killers, cyborgs from the far future — that just will not die, no matter what you do to them. Incinerate ’em and a loose gram of their psychotic essence reconstitutes itself and the battle is on again. So it with the FCC announcing that it is … Read more
At first, I thought it was a joke. Heifer International just sent me a holiday catalog offering me the opportunity to buy a water buffalo for $250 and ship it to Cambodia. I could also buy a share of a buffalo, for just $25. And this is serious. Heifer International is a private nonprofit agency … Read more
Here’s a great night out: dinner, drinks perhaps, and then Amir Bar-Lev’s fascinating documentary My Kid Could Paint That (opening tomorrow at the Lagoon Cinema.) The story of four-year-old Marla Olmstead, the little girl who made abstract paintings that sold for nearly a half million dollars, My Kid will have you and your cohorts debating … Read more
“They Lied to Us,” writes Ed Felien in Southside Pride.