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26 Oct. 2009 | | Billie Greenwood

Arts & Entertainment

Fans want to pay musicians

By way of an update, a2f2a (artists-to-fans-to-artists), is now online with debates on payments to artists, writes and wrongs on copyright, and a lot of other items of immediate interest, going hot and strong, as p2pnet readers who’ve already (...)

26 oct. 2009 | | Jon Newton

Arts & Entertainment

Arts and Culture in the Metropolis

I love museums. I live only a short walk from Museum Mile here in Manhattan so museums figure prominently in my leisure schedule at home as well as abroad. Few places in New York offer better “people watching” than the steps of the (...)

16 oct. 2009 | 1 comment | Boris Johnson

Arts & Entertainment

McDonald’s at the Louvre - quelle horreur!

The Louvre in Paris is about to get a new neighbour, as the US fast food chain, McDonald’s, plans to open an outlet in the underground mall (Carousel du Louvre) at the approach to the museum. And "Quelle horreur" seems to be the response (...)

6 Oct. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton

Arts & Entertainment

Farting bull gores Bernie Madoff in the assets

P2P net had a pic of the day, this’d be it. “Chinese artist Chen Wenling critiques the global financial crisis in What You See Might Not Be Real, on display at a Beijing gallery,” says the BBC caption to this Associated Press photo, (...)

30 sep. 2009 | | Jon Newton

Arts & Entertainment

Book & DVD Reviews On Gram Parsons, Cosmically Tragic Musical Troubador

Gram Parsons was on loan to us for a little while, but we didn’t look up fast enough. — MARK LEVITON I’m a fast reader and usually race right through books. But there’s been a lot going on in my young life lately, and during (...)

5 Aug. 2009 | | Shaun Mullen

Arts & Entertainment

Kandinsky in Paris - battling the crowds

Art lovers will probably be very well aware that there’s a major retrospective of the life and works of the Russian-born painter and art theorist, Wassily Kandinsky, showing in the French capital at the moment. After its huge success at (...)

27 Jul. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton

Arts & Entertainment

Moroccan artists at the Venice Bienale

Fathiya Tahiri and Mahi Binebine are the artists representing Morocco at this year’s Venice Biennale. This is a return for Fathiya, who also exhibited at the 51st Venice Biennale back in 2005. The exhibition has been very popular and is beautifully (...)

17 jui. 2009 | | The View From Fez

Arts & Entertainment

Giant Paper Mache Pencils

These giant pencils were a favorite among students and parents alike last summer in my private art class. The basic shape comes from a mailing tube, which I found at my local moving supply company. 1. Provide one (approx. 36" x 6" diam.) (...)

28 May. 2009 | | Kathy Barbro

Comment

A Taste of Mountain Rain

Every summer my parents would drop me off in the village with my grandparents. I have many cousins, uncles, aunts and nephews so you bet it is a lot of fun to have all of our relatives located next to each other. Most of my uncles have been in cattle (...)

28 Apr. 2009 | | Ryskeldi Satke

Arts & Entertainment

The purpose of the Arts

As I conclude my three years with the Toronto Philharmonia, I am led to consider again the purpose of a live performing arts organization in this time of electronic media. Why have a professional orchestra performing in our community when we can listen to (...)

8 avr. 2009 | | Linda Rogers

Arts & Entertainment

Toronto’s Forgotten Landmarks : Ghost Floors at the King Edward

Haunting images of the derelict King Edward Hotel Ballroom have graced this site before. Finally up for serious renovations, many are unaware that this was not the only area of the beautiful old hotel that sat vacant for years... The mysteriously (...)

1er avr. 2009 | | BlogTO

Arts & Entertainment

Tube Graffiti comes to Kew

My friend and neighbour Richard from Essential Travel, took a picture of a fairly rare sight on the District Line. Yesterday a graffiti’ed Tube pulled into Kew Gardens and it certainly took both him and me back to those 1970’s images of New (...)

17 fév. 2009 | | Annie Mole

Arts & Entertainment

The Art of Being Culturally Relevant

Zappos sells and throws shoes. Zappos responds quickly to take advantage of the news and get people talking. How can you be culturally relevant in a way that’s true to your brand ?

17 déc. 2008 | | John Winsor

Arts & Entertainment

Thursday Theatre Review : The Pillowman

Birdland Theatre and The Canadian Stage Company’s production of The Pillowman is a play that pummels. It pummels you with time (clocking in at a hefty two hours and 40 minutes), it pummels you with subject matter, and it pummels you with an (...)

28 sep. 2007 | 1 comment | BlogTO

Arts & Entertainment

Harry Potter theme park

Even though the story is going to end soon, the magic is going to live on. Artist’s impression of Hogwarts According to news reports, Warner Bros. will create a theme park called "The Wizarding World of Harry Potter" within Universal (...)

13 jui. 2007 | 1 comment | Dilip Mutum (Adam)

Arts & Entertainment

Monument to the international community

In recognition of the effective and unstinting assistance provided during the war, on Friday a group of artists in Sarajevo raised their "Monument to the international community" : a metre high golden can of beef. Says Dunja Blažević (...)

8 mai. 2007 | 1 comment | Eric Gordy

Society

RIAA attacks more US schools

Ohio University, formerly the worst-hit in the RIAA’s attack on senior American Schools under the so-called ’settlement plan’, is patting itself on the back. Where once the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) (...)

3 mai. 2007 | | Jon Newton

People

Kurt Vonnegut ? so it goes

Kurt Vonnegut was already fairly famous by the time I became a fan - which would have been in my late teens - but I still felt like someone who had discovered a cool, underground band that no one else was into. His books weren’t quite science (...)

13 avr. 2007 | | Mathew Ingram

Arts & Entertainment

Madonna turns Green

The world is saved ! Madonna, Genesis, James Blunt, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Foo Fighters and Duran Duran are all going Green ! They’ll be among corporate acts at the London, England, end of a global series of Live Earth concerts, says the BBC. (...)

12 avr. 2007 | 1 comment | Jon Newton

Arts & Entertainment

Influential Filmmaker Bob Clark Dies in Car Crash

’Sometimes, at the height of our revelries, when our joy is at it’s zenith, when all is most right with the world, the most unthinkable disasters decend upon us.’ (one of many great lines from Bob Clark’s The Christmas Story) (...)

5 avr. 2007 | 3 comments | BlogTO

Arts & Entertainment

Thursday Theatre Review : The Saskatchewan Rebellion

The Saskatchewan Rebellion, presented by Video Cabaret, has the tagline ’The Last Spike is hammered, Louis Riel is hanged, and the West is open for business...’ The show is in the theatre at the back of the Cameron House and is the 7th (...)

30 mar. 2007 | 1 comment | BlogTO

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