August 2009
9 posts
Historic Trust Partners with Georgia Theatre →
Donors who want to contribute to a fund to help rebuild the fire-ravaged Georgia Theatre can now make donations through the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation. The historic Athens music venue…
“Objective journalists – me included – need to place more emphasis on verifiable...”
– Blake Aued: On the death of rationality It’s a shame that this needs to be said, but it does, and Blake says it well.
Reader's Digest Set to File for Bankruptcy →
To be honest, I kind of forgot about Reader’s Digest. Really, though, their mission—repeating and shortening media—is both redundant and essential in the context of social media. Too bad they just kept to their format. (I know that they’re just filing for bankruptcy—not yet folding—but I really can’t see anyone I know suddenly turning to Reader’s...
“A country without an expectation of minimal artistic literacy, without a basic...”
– Rachel Maddow, speaking at Jacob’s Pillow Dance “PillowTalk”
The March and Flow of Time →
Chicago struck me like a hybrid between New York and Washington DC. The city is busy and grand like New York. But the physical…
Well, that's pathetic but expected →
Former Athens-Clarke County Commissioner and current Rep. John Barrow voted against the health care compromise bill on the Energy and Commerce Committee. Stay classy John. Maybe if we stick in…