Entertainment & Arts Archive
Add to your town’s creative experiences: It depends on it. Especially if you feel your community is lacking
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A community center for arts groups: As profiled this week, there are workplace-community centers for creatives and high-tech
Creative events for a creative venue: What good is a great theater or hall without events worth going
The best theater in America?: When your theater has its own fan site, you know you’re cool.
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Looking for a model downtown music festival?: Check out Austin’s South by Southwest, better known as SXSW. Is it
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What’s the neighborhood downtown version of the TV guide?: For the MidCity, Washington DC neighborhoods, it’s www.midcitylive.com, an updated version of
What is the mother of all art events?: That’s easy – Art Basel in Switzerland and Miami Beach are the
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What’s a successful monthly downtown event?: While the last entry listed a series of neighborhood downtown events, the
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Any good ideas for neighborhood downtown events?: Just as a theater doesn’t come to life unless it has a
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Chicago developer’s lifetime investment in artist community: What did it take to revive a neglected neighborhood with historic buildings
When shopping meets ‘pajama party’ in the city: So you like shopping. You enjoy the buzz of downtown nightlife. You
Measuring the economic benefits of arts on a community: Why should a city invest in the arts? While artists have no
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When affordable art meets affordable nightlife…: So you’re young and can’t afford gallery art just yet. Or you’re
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Going out in pursuit of some trivial fun…: Connect Four, Trivial Pursuit, Backgammon… the games you played as a kid…
Making ‘planned spontaneity’ easier: If there’s one thing that appeals to our audience, it’s planned spontaneity
Neighborhoods funding the new arts, not corporations: Corporate funding for the arts dropped 48% in the last 15 years;
The value of artists in urban development: An abstract depiction of a proposed place can often capture its emotion,
The return of theaters (and people) to downtowns: While there’s a movement afoot to preserve the 300-400 historic theaters that
The merging of entertainment and retail: Main streets are no longer the department-store-oriented retail districts they used to
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Banners bring some style: Just a few banners applied here to a restored historic building help
Alternative nightlife: Dodgeball: There’s more to nightlife than restaurants and bars, and one of the
Placemaking from an artful perspective: What would a city look like from an arts point of view?
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Can artists bring vitality to an abandowned downtown?: The artists in the Massachusetts town of Pittsfield think so. Pittsfield lost
Where’s the heart of entertainment in Ann Arbor?: If there’s only one area to go in Ann Arbor for entertainment,
Athfest – “#1 Campus Scene that Rocks”: That’s according to Rolling Stone Magazine. Ath Fest, a nonprofit annual music
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Every neighborhood should have its day: This is my neighborhood and this is its day – Adams Morgan
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Walk-in theater: As drive-in theaters continue to close down, walk-in theaters (often on big
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A third place for musicians (and wanna-be’s): Ever wanted to start a band but couldn’t find neighbors who were
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Why ‘ugly’ is still valued by creatives…: …and that is to attract only the most creative people. Creative prejudice
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