On Saturday, Jan. 21, lucky attendees of Sf Sketchfest got to witness an event a decade in the making: A staged recreation of the cult classic "Wet Hot American Summer" by (most of) the original cast at the Marines’ Memorial Theatre in San Francisco, CA.
The 2001 summer camp movie parody, made primarily by members of comedy troupe The State on a shoestring budget, was a box office failure upon its theatrical release. But the following decade has been kind to "Wet Hot." Today, the movie has become a sort of comedy calling card, and telling someone that you're a fan of "Wet Hot American Summer" immediately sends a message about your sense of humor: Straight faced and silly simultaneously, hyper self-aware and more than a little ironic.
At Sf Sketchfest, one of most highly regarded comedy festivals in America that leans on so-called "alternative" comedy, much of the "Wet Hot" cast...
The 2001 summer camp movie parody, made primarily by members of comedy troupe The State on a shoestring budget, was a box office failure upon its theatrical release. But the following decade has been kind to "Wet Hot." Today, the movie has become a sort of comedy calling card, and telling someone that you're a fan of "Wet Hot American Summer" immediately sends a message about your sense of humor: Straight faced and silly simultaneously, hyper self-aware and more than a little ironic.
At Sf Sketchfest, one of most highly regarded comedy festivals in America that leans on so-called "alternative" comedy, much of the "Wet Hot" cast...
- 1/24/2012
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
The miniature song Owls: An Epitaph – halting, dissonant, weird – is the most powerful corrective I know to the image of Elgar as moustachioed imperialist. Listen and tell me what you think
A quick Elgar discovery for the weekend, after a sneak preview of John Bridcut's film about the composer, Elgar: The Man Behind the Mask, scheduled to be broadcast on BBC4 on 12 November. Bridcut creates some striking scenes with some great Elgarians – Colin Davis, Edward Gardner, Anthony Payne, Michael Kennedy, David Owen Norris – listening to their favourite Elgar works. A simple idea, but it's moving to see the sunlit magic of the soloist's first notes in the Violin Concerto reflected in Colin Davis's smile, or Michael Kennedy's rapt contemplation as he hears the raw melancolia of Sospiri.
Most revelatory of all, at least for me, was watching Mark Elder listen to Elgar's Owls: An Epitaph (one of the...
A quick Elgar discovery for the weekend, after a sneak preview of John Bridcut's film about the composer, Elgar: The Man Behind the Mask, scheduled to be broadcast on BBC4 on 12 November. Bridcut creates some striking scenes with some great Elgarians – Colin Davis, Edward Gardner, Anthony Payne, Michael Kennedy, David Owen Norris – listening to their favourite Elgar works. A simple idea, but it's moving to see the sunlit magic of the soloist's first notes in the Violin Concerto reflected in Colin Davis's smile, or Michael Kennedy's rapt contemplation as he hears the raw melancolia of Sospiri.
Most revelatory of all, at least for me, was watching Mark Elder listen to Elgar's Owls: An Epitaph (one of the...
- 10/15/2010
- by Tom Service
- The Guardian - Film News
What doesn’t kill cities during this crisis will make them stronger. This is Richard Florida’s diagnosis in The Great Reset, which picks up where his last foray into pop economic geography, Who’s Your City? left off.
Only this time, America and Canada are staggering out of the worst recession in a generation, with a double-dip (or worse) still a possibility. Florida, a professor of creativity and business at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, is of course best known for The Rise of the Creative Class, which led hundreds of anxious cities to pursue his “three T’s” of technology, talent, and tolerance, a formula all-too-often reduced to christening “arts districts” and fruitlessly luring gays. Florida became an academic rock star by suggesting any city could be creative and prosper (a message which earned him a takedown by The American Prospect in January). No longer.
Only this time, America and Canada are staggering out of the worst recession in a generation, with a double-dip (or worse) still a possibility. Florida, a professor of creativity and business at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, is of course best known for The Rise of the Creative Class, which led hundreds of anxious cities to pursue his “three T’s” of technology, talent, and tolerance, a formula all-too-often reduced to christening “arts districts” and fruitlessly luring gays. Florida became an academic rock star by suggesting any city could be creative and prosper (a message which earned him a takedown by The American Prospect in January). No longer.
- 5/5/2010
- by Greg Lindsay
- Fast Company
So it's come to this: Unable to provide basic services for all of his constituents, Detroit mayor Dave Bing is drafting plans starve his city down to a manageable size. Using proprietary data and a survey released by Data Driven Detroit, Bing and his staff will pick "winners and losers" amongst the city's neighborhoods and seek to resettle residents from the losers, those deemed most unlivable. With Detroit's tax base withering from the implosion of two-thirds of the Big Three, the housing crisis, and an ongoing exodus, Bing believes he has no other choice.
"If we don't do it, you know this whole city is going to go down," he told a local radio station last month. "I'm hopeful people will understand that. If we can incentivize some of those folks that are in those desolate areas, they can get a better situation" in one of the remaining neighborhoods with schools and buses.
"If we don't do it, you know this whole city is going to go down," he told a local radio station last month. "I'm hopeful people will understand that. If we can incentivize some of those folks that are in those desolate areas, they can get a better situation" in one of the remaining neighborhoods with schools and buses.
- 3/5/2010
- by Greg Lindsay
- Fast Company
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