Chicago Tribune: Sorry, no one’s reading that resume you sent (tags: new_media arts_management) International Herald Tribune: European Archive Foundation launches free digital library (tags: new_media news the_Netherlands) Washington Post: Cultural Diplomacy Gets a New Worldview (tags: cultural_affairs international_affairs news) Blog: Why Journalists Hate PRs – and Why PRs Hate Journalists (tags: public_relations media blog) Richard Edelman on Tolerance and the Role of...
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Via Alex Ross’s blog I was drawn to a post by Teju Cole on his blog modal minority. He describes a dream-like occurrence involving small and windy alleys in Vienna and a clarinet quintet by Osvaldo Golijov. As he writes about seeing “people being forcibly led from their homes in the middle of this hot...
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I have just finished Annette Simmons’ book The Story Factor. The book is a guide and sort of a how-to on influencing through storytelling. Although it was an easy and fairly short read, it took me a long time to finish the book. A couple of months to be honest. This is not a criticism...
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New York Magazine: Dreaming of Obama (tags: international_affairs media news) Time Magazine: Do Newspapers Have a Future? (tags: media new_media) Boston Globe: One thing is certain: Music has a future (tags: arts_management classical_music media) Dmitri Shostakovich (tags: classical_music) Chicago Tribune: Shostakovich; A soundtrack to revolution (tags: classical_music news)
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I have heard many times that if Oprah Winfrey would endorse a presidential candidate, it would make all the difference. It is a dreamy what if scenario and maybe the ultimate endorsement. To my knowledge, Oprah has never endorsed a particular candidate. Until today. In a move that might well prove to be a...
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Yesterday, I was a guest contributor at Forward Moving. I wrote about informal interviewing, a key instrument in the job search. Check it out on Forward. Let’s just hope that the post won’t end up on Bitacle, a new site ripping posts in their entirety and using those posts to make money with Google’s AdSense....
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Christian Lindberg’s homepage (tags: classical_music) Drew McManus’ annual orchestra Web site review (tags: arts_management new_media classical_music) Alex Ross on Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (tags: classical_music) Lyric Opera of Chicago’s new media contract (tags: arts_management chicago classical_music news) Hill & Knowlton: just own it; own a problem (tags: blog public_relations) Free download of Beethoven’s Fifth (tags: classical_music new_media) Slate’s analysis of The Office in different countries (tags: international_affairs media)
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As this month is Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15-October 15), I decided to look back again on my trip to Mexico last July. Since coming back from Mexico, I have taken much more interest in Mexican culture, and music in particular. With its vibrant Mexican community, Chicago has much to offer in Mexican music. In...
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My recent surge of interest in genealogy has also led me to revisit the history of Erp, the town where I was born and lived for the first 19 years of my life. I have a copy of a book on the history of Erp, written by the town’s priest A.P.M. Meuwese in 1955....
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Resurrection Project in Chicago (tags: chicago mexico) Miguel Hidalgo (tags: mexico) Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum (tags: chicago mexico) Marc Geelhoed on classical music downloads (tags: classical_music new_media) LA Times: celebrities are narcissists (tags: metrosexual) Robert Novak accuses Plame affair source of distortion (tags: news media)
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