Archives for June 2007
Live blogging about cultural participation
The folks at Arts Journal are currently live-blogging from the ASOL conference in Nashville. In anticipation of the book Engaging Art: The Next Great Transformation of America’s Cultural Life they started a discussion last week on a specially created blog. This afternoon they have taken the discussion partly out of the blogosphere with a presentation [...]
From Texas to Raiders of the Lost Ark
Just returned on Monday from another weekend in Texas. There were a couple of good reasons to go: a baby shower, a 10-year high school reunion and father’s day.
The men didn’t partake in the baby shower, however; instead we did our manly thing. We all went mountain biking. If my life revolved more around biking [...]
Tolstoy in Albany Park
I have moved. Not in cyberspace, but in real life. I am a proud first-time homeowner (technically I don’t own it yet, but that’s frustratingly complicated) in Albany Park in Chicago, one of the most diverse neighborhoods in the United States. Near my place there is a mosque, a Romanian church, and a Korean church [...]
