My brilliant friends are preparing their year-end lists, which I’ll post here to showcase my good taste in friends (last year’s).  After that, I’ll post some longer thoughts (last year’s) and even-longer mixes.  For now, a bit of my stuff for that other place.  My take on Royksopp’s Junior, which I love, is at the [...]

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Zach Baron, interviewing P4KTV employee Greg Finch on a new performance space/collaboration laboratory in Brooklyn:
And does Dame come to the shows?
Oh, absolutely. The last show that we did on Tuesday (with London Souls and the Cool Kids), after the show was over, he told everyone to stay and he MC’d like a freestyle-off, with Curren$y, [...]

I’m not usually one to just post press releases, but this is pretty special.  It’s really heartening to see Big Ears blow up like this.  Knoxville, here I (we) come:
“The groundbreaking Big Ears Festival – slated for the weekend of March 26-28, 2010 in Knoxville, Tennessee – is excited to unveil the initial line up [...]

I’m not a law student, but nonetheless, it’s nice to see that an Indy resident actually read and understood what I was trying to do in this review. I only got 3 emails from people honestly aghast that I’d report others saying anything negative about my hometown, but they still sorta hurt, y’know?  Sorry [...]

IU’s press release on Elinor Ostrom’s Nobel Speech yesterday in Stockholm.  Some good ideas to think with here regarding commons, especially at a time when the privatization of crucial, life/death stuff is more than ever a pressing political concern:
When she began her research in the 1960s, Ostrom said, it was ‘a very simple world’ according [...]