Posts about The NEA Scandal as of October 22, 2009

How can one summarize the city of Athens in a blog post? That would be a fool’s game. Athens is the capital of Greece, practically in the center of the mainland, the economic and government hub of the country and home to half of Greece’s population. For those who have traveled to Greece, you will understand when I say all roads begin and end in Athens. For right or wrong, Greece is still very centralized and Athens is the nerve center of this small country.

Last week, Big Hollywood broke the news that the Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF) has proved eager to obey the orders of President Obama. Instead of following the American president’s Serve.gov initiative critically, 60 network television programs (including news programs) have decided to embrace it and shove it down your throats. As BH’s editor-in-chief John Nolte explained : …tens, if not hundreds of millions of Americans, will be urged through the (ab)use of public airwaves to log on to the EIF iParticipate site and volunteer” this week.

“Avenue Q” Rises Again October 21, 2009 – Moving thoughts on my old show and one of my faves – Avenue Q. Love, Loss, And What I Wore (The SOB Review) October 21, 2009 – Steve on Broadway give Love Loss and What I Wore some love and encourages more men to see it! NEA’s Rocco Landesman: no more culture wars October 21, 2009 Noises off: Can America’s black theatre escape from its past? October 21, 2009 – Nice summary of the current blogger debate on African American Theatre.

“Avenue Q” Rises Again October 21, 2009 – Moving thoughts on my old show and one of my faves – Avenue Q. Love, Loss, And What I Wore (The SOB Review) October 21, 2009 – Steve on Broadway give Love Loss and What I Wore some love and encourages more men to see it! NEA’s Rocco Landesman: no more culture wars October 21, 2009 Noises off: Can America’s black theatre escape from its past? October 21, 2009 – Nice summary of the current blogger debate on African American Theatre.

Honda fans will be pleased to see so little change with the 2010 model of the Honda Accord. With a body that has not changed much since the 2008 birth of the eighth generation Accord, the 2010 model will see only minute improvements on an already nea…

AP – The country’s top arts official is going on the road. Read more from the original source:  (AP)”> (AP)”>NEA chair to tour country (AP)

Did you hear the news? Probably not. But this is ridiculous . According to Andrew Breitbart and his investigative journalism website BigGovernment.com —the belles of the ACORN-cracking ball—there are more Obama administration officials meeting with the leaders of industry in order to push the White House’s agenda into the public consciousness. You’ll recall the Celebrity Pledge Video, where cultural leaders such as will.i.am, Demi Moore, and Ashton Kutcher (ugh, I can’t believe I had to call them “cultural leaders”) urged fans to “pledge to be a servant to our president.” Well, this is just another piece in the puzzle.

Hello and welcome one and all tot he most intense nightly read anywhere on the ’sphere; The BitsBlog Nightly Ramble They say you’re supposed to have 5 service of veggies every day. Well, here’s one heapin helpin’, just now; CONTAINMENT : Politico’ s Mike Allen and Josh Gerstien that The White House is attacking Fox News as a part of a containment strategy. But most of all,  (….they’re about getting….) other journalists to think twice before following the (…Fox…)  network’s stories in their own coverage.

NEA chair to tour country NEW YORK ? The country’s top arts official is going on the road. Rocco Landesman, chair of the National Endowment of the Arts, announced Wednesday that he will spend six months visiting towns and cities nationwide, starting Nov. 6. He called it the “Art Works” tour, a triple entendre referring to works [...]

The new logo for the National Endowment for the Arts In his keynote address at Grantmakers in the Arts’ 2009 Recession Conference: Navigating the Art of Change , which I attended in Brooklyn today, Rocco Landesman was his usual combative self, acknowledging the “reconstructive” work of predecessors, Dana Gioia and Bill Ivey , in “build[ing] strong relationships on Capitol Hill” and ” re-establish[ing] the NEA as a respected, bipartisan agency,” but letting us know that he’s now going to

We covered this story yesterday. Gus Sentementes at BaltTech has more on it today including the university press release (found below the fold here) and the video below. UMD press release Spiraling Flight of Maple Tree Seeds Inspires New Surveillance Technology Clark School Aerospace Engineering Students Solve 60-Year-Old Design Dilemma FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 19, 2009 SPECIAL DEMONSTRATION 10 a.m.

NEA chair to tour country NEW YORK ? The country’s top arts official is going on the road. Rocco Landesman, chair of the National Endowment of the Arts, announced Wednesday that he will spend six months visiting towns and cities nationwide, starting Nov. 6. He called it the “Art Works” tour, a triple entendre referring to works [...]

Microsoft is set to release Windows 7 on Thursday. But will enterprises migrate to the latest platform that year? Or will they delay upgrading until they are convinced Microsoft has all the kinks worked out? According to a new ITIC/Sunbelt Software survey of more than 1,600 companies worldwide, nea… Tech Talk

By KleinheiderPosted on October 21, 2009 at 12:04 pm Rocco Landesman, the new chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, will visit Nashville in late November to take a close look at the city’s arts scene, he announced in a speech in New York this morning.Landesman’s visit is part of a multi-city tour that will cobble together a survey of the country’s arts groups. Exact dates for his Nashville visit and another in Memphis haven’t been announced.

We’ve already told you how the recent legal “win” that the PFOX organization has been crowing about for the past few months is anything but. Our pal Timothy Kincaid wrote a great assessment of it for Box Turtle Bulletin: And, most importantly, the judge found that it is perfectly reasonable for the NEA to exclude PFOX. Because the NEA did not exclude them for being ex-gay, but rather because they have a disruptive political agenda that is contrary to that of the NEA.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 21, 2009 ROCCO LANDESMAN ANNOUNCES “ART WORKS” TOUR AT THE 2009 GRANTMAKERS IN THE ARTS NATIONAL CONFERENCE NEA Chairman to visit Peoria, Illinois, as first stop Brooklyn, NY –National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Rocco Landesman delivered a keynote address today to close the 2009 national Grantmakers in the Arts conference: Navigating the Art of Change.

Melissa Clouthier alerted me to this post by Donald Sensing. He writes: And to think that George W. Bush was mocked for saying, “If you’re not with us, you’re with the terrorists.” The White House is laying a foundation of future media relations that does two things. First, they are identifying, and most importantly trying to get all the media to identify, good and bad media coverage, both terms defined by the White House.

Microsoft is set to release Windows 7 on Thursday. But will enterprises migrate to the latest platform that year? Or will they delay upgrading until they are convinced Microsoft has all the kinks worked out? According to a new ITIC/Sunbelt Software survey of more than 1,600 companies worldwide, nea… Tech Talk

by Burt Prelutsky I wasn’t surprised that Rep. Joe Wilson felt compelled to apologize to President Obama for calling him a liar.  I also wasn’t surprised to hear that within 24 hours, thousands of liberals had sent in over $200,000 in contributions to Wilson’s opponent in next year’s election even though they knew nothing about him except that he was running against Wilson.  I was heartened to hear that once the word got out, Wilson received a million bucks.  But, frankly, I wouldn’t have been surprised if the other 434 members of the House had censured, expelled or ridden Rep.

The Housing and Development Board (HDB) has said it cannot take over the wet markets owned by private operators or interfere with the commercial negotiation between the new owner and the stallholders when such wet markets change hands.The HDB also cannot “impose new requirements that are more stringent on the new owner, compared to those already imposed on the existing one”.HDB said this in a statement on Wednesday in response to recent media reports on the concerns of some stallholders affected

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