Ok girls and boys, we normally don’t do this sort of thing, but here’s a cause that C.C. is definitely getting behind. Click, watch and learn. Doesn’t matter who you are, information is information, and you never know when you or someone you know will decide to throw caution to the wind and have some [...]
So, once they let all 400 Americans into their country, the largest contingent of U.S. citizens to grace their land since the end of the U.S. invasion some fifty years ago, what did the North Koreans get to hear?
First, the orchestra played both the North Korean national anthem and ours. I love to hear the [...]
If you opted out of the 4am live internet stream of The New York Philharmonic’s performance in Pyonyang, and waited until 8PM last night for Channel 13’s broadcast of the performance, then you paid the price of having to sit through ABC’s virtual propaganda machine. Now, before you get all pissed off at me, I’m [...]
As we reported before, Daniel J. Wakin has been covering The New York Philharmonic’s East Asian tour for The Times. He just cranked out this interesting article, which The Times online has posted.
If you haven’t gone to check out his ArtsBeat coverage, do so now. It’s kind of unprecedented. There are sound clips from the [...]
As some of y’all have read, we published a fairly controversial piece on Alex Ross, our former crush and erudite music critic for The New Yorker. Then a friend of ours sent in a comment likening Ross’s prescription for the future of new music (which is always a critique of the present) to Barrack Obama’s [...]
Terry Teachout, in a paranoid editorial published by the Water Sports Wall Street Journal Online, advises against the NY Phil’s proposed performance in North Korea. He basically doesn’t want the Philharmonic to dance like monkeys in front of Kim Jong Il, especially considering that most of the N. Korean population is barred from even entering [...]
For all the paranoia that conservative folks broadcast, this article–this event–proves just how far right we’re tilting in the culture conflict. Turns out Pacifica radio dodged the FCC, airing a complete reading of Allen Ginsber’s “Howl” on their website, rather than risk a $350,000 fine per-infraction for violating “indecency” rules.
This is getting hot, folks.
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