John Waters: running from middle America (Banner) John Waters? career began in 1960s Baltimore with a group of friends and one camera. After 40 years of prison pedagogy, drag queens, cult and then mainstream success, Waters is still a busy man....more...Good Causes (San Antonio Express-News) Good Causes...more... U.S. poet laureate wows Seacoast Rep crowd (Portsmouth Herald) PORTSMOUTH ? Charles Simic of Strafford ? Pulitzer Prize winner for poetry, and now the 15th poet laureate of the United States ? put the art in an event otherwise focused on the money side of his field. ...more... Coleman hopes to merge forces with other musicians (Redlands Daily Facts) Phoenix Coleman of Riverside is a "musician's singer," someone who hopes to collaborate with other musicians in various projects aside from her own. Coleman began playing music as a kid, hearing music in her head....more... Ellie and the torn-up masterpiece (Coventry Evening Telegraph) AFTER working for three days on a writing competition, Ellie Farrimond was devastated when little brother William threw a tantrum and ripped up her work....more... ?Closer,? ?FX? creators Greer Shephard and Michael Robin have a superb resume going (The Kansas City Star) On a recent morning at Hollywood?s Raleigh Studios, veteran producers Greer Shephard and Michael Robin appeared bright and energetic despite record August heat and even though they had been up past 3:30 a.m. wrapping the Christmas special of ?The Closer.? They weren?t even considering a hiatus. After nine years, Shephard/Robin Co. is just too busy....more... Holocaust Photos Offer Chilling Counterpoint (Arts Journal) A new collection of photos on display at the Holocaust Museum amounts to "a scrapbook of sorts of the lives of Auschwitz's senior SS officers that was maintained by Karl Höcker, the adjutant to the camp commandant....more... Buildings That Let You Know They're In TV (Arts Journal) Three new buildings headquartering broadcasting concerns are opening this week, and all three were designed by the same innovative architecture firm....more... Pittsburgh GM Jumping To Ontario (Arts Journal) The general manager of the Pittsburgh Symphony has resigned to take a job as executive director of the much smaller Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony in Ontario. Genevieve Twomey, an Australian native, has been with the PSO since 2000....more... |