Archive for May, 2011
Central Park Lite
by William Zinsser | The American Scholar
Central Park and I go back almost as far as a man and a park can go. In the early 1930s, when my sisters and I were children, we sometimes stayed overnight with our grandmother, who lived at 1 West 69th Street. Unskilled at amusing the young, she would give us loaves of stale bread, saved for just such an emergency, and send us across the s More...
Pay What You Can
by Andrew Taylor | The Artful Manager
The Christian Science Monitor has an interesting story on Panera Bread's initiative to create 'pay what you can' versions of their cafés that earn money and give back at the same time. The three 'Panera Cares' locations are a tiny fraction of the chain's 1500 outlets, but they're an intriguing experiment in community-focused pricing.
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Twits for the Arts
by Chloe Veltman
I'm impressed by Twitter's attempt to reach out to local arts organizations here in the Bay Area.
The San Francisco-based social media company invited a bunch of arts marketers and media types (me included) to their offices in the South of Market neighborhood yesterday afternoon for a "Performing Arts and Social Media Discussio More...
All Too Common
by Marcia Dawkins
About a week ago Fox News started a “Common Controversy” about whether the Chicago-based poet and rapper should have been invited to a White House poetry reading by the First Lady.
Claims surfaced that Common’s lyrics promote cop killing, misogyny, and prejudice against interracial relationships. Karl Rove told the Associated More...
Creativity Econ 2: Non-Profit Edition
by Adam Leipzig
Make no mistake about it: the arts and creativity will be in the cross-hairs for the 2012 election.
Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback has eliminated the Kansas Arts Commission. Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer excised the Arizona Arts commission’s general fund. Florida Gov. Rick Scott removed the state’s Division of Cultural Resources’ gran More...
Whither Humanities in Silicon Valley?
by Chloe Veltman
I spent most of yesterday at a symposium at Stanford University all about career prospects within the tech industry for students graduating with humanities Ph.Ds from American academic institutions.
The organizers invited a lineup of high-powered speakers from silicon valley to address the audience at the Bechtel Conference Center. Lumin More...
