Slog - Comments on Arts in America (and Britain) http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/arts_in_america_and_1 Pop quiz! Was the United States' "postwar satire boom" a revolutionary movement? Author Stephen E. Kercher says yes. Did the Arctic Monkeys make the best record by a British or Irish artist in 2006? The jurors for Britain's Mercury Prize say yes. When you're dead, will you have a friend and ex-lover to talk about you as lovingly as Patti Smith talks about Robert Mapplethorpe in today's London Times? Cross your fingers. Am I alone in my freakishly high estimation of music critic Robert Christgau, who was fired last week from the Village Voice? Thanks to Slate's Jody Rosen, I... Copyright 2007 Wed, 06 Sep 2006 14:02:01 -0800 Wed, 06 Sep 2006 16:07:51 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by crafty ie. Ed Banger records

]]> crafty http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/arts_in_america_and_1#c458428 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/arts_in_america_and_1#c458428 Arts Wed, 06 Sep 2006 15:17:27 -0800 Comment by TJ Christgau being fired by the Voice tells me that what I heard was happening to them is true.

Some very lucky paper is going to benefit, and New Times can go fall over.

]]> TJ http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/arts_in_america_and_1#c458442 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/arts_in_america_and_1#c458442 Arts Wed, 06 Sep 2006 15:27:51 -0800 Comment by JMW You are not alone in your freakishly high estimation of Christgau, but you should be. He's not a writer, he's a word Cuisinart.

]]> JMW http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/arts_in_america_and_1#c458457 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/arts_in_america_and_1#c458457 Arts Wed, 06 Sep 2006 15:41:49 -0800 Comment by Prospero I agree with the outdoor theater comment.

Why don't we hit Paul Allen up to build a replica of the Globe theater, or the theater at Athens, somewhere convenient - like by the Armory in SLU, or over at the Ballard Locks?

And then do NY one better and sponsor a Seattle-wide, or maybe even world-wide, dramatic competition to take place there, like a modern-day Athens?

My own submission in the next year or two would be an updated version of Shakespeare's Pericles, with its (not very well known) political subtext pointing directly at Bush.

]]> Prospero http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/arts_in_america_and_1#c458472 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/arts_in_america_and_1#c458472 Arts Wed, 06 Sep 2006 16:07:51 -0800