Creative economy
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Arts in crisis? Really?
Just how did Faulkner survive (not to mention Charles Ives and Marlon Brando)?
Are boorish Americans systematically starving our creative classes, as two critics contend? It’s an old complaint, once voiced by the likes of Mark Twain and Saul Bellow. But where William Giraldi and Scott Timberg see cultural destruction, I see natural creative evolution, and not just in the arts.
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A BlackStar Film Festival panel
Black filmmakers confront the ‘burden of representation’
Must black artists or public figures represent their entire group to the dominant culture? At Philadelphia’s annual BlackStar Film Festival, four filmmakers wrestled with that question.
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Can PBS survive the fundraising trap?
I understand the practicalities of the television business. I understand that if these stations don’t make up their budget shortfalls, the quality of their offerings is likely to suffer, or they might even close down altogether. My concern is the fundraising programming itself and how it is threatening to take over a large segment of our PBS stations’ schedules.
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Has Philadelphia become a cultural backwater?
What do Philly and Spokane have in common?
A great city isn’t a matter of size, but of whether it challenges itself with the best the world has to offer. Philadelphia doesn’t.
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Promoting your writing: a response
The cost of blowing your own horn
Did you find this article via social media? You’re welcome. I put it there, but nobody paid me to do it. Am I the only writer feeling fleeced?
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5 minute read
An elegy for the Boyd Theater
A trip to the Boyd always reminded me of a different era when the movies sought to do more than give the people what they wanted — it gave them something they needed, a place to capture their imaginations and inspire them.
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4 minute read
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Promoting your writing
This little light of mine
It puzzles me that so many of my fellow writers just sit on their hands when a new story of theirs is published, expecting that the world will somehow manage to discover it.
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Blair Tindall's 'Mozart in the Jungle'
The oboist's lament
The Mozart in the Jungle TV series is based on a book that presents a cautionary tale for those who commit to a career in the arts for the wrong reasons.
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This writing life
The author takes a creative approach to getting his book into the hands of readers.
Philadelphia actors find work locally
A commitment to local talent
Do actors need to head north to work? The 51 theaters in the Philadelphia area make an effort to hire local talent, according to their casting directors.
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