AN ADIRONDACK STATE OF MIND More years ago than I admit to, while on a cross country skiing adventure, I came to the shore of a lake in the Adirondack Mountains. Before me was an unbroken snow-field, untouched, unmarked, bathed in the soft red-gold glow cast by the last rays of […]
Adieu, Britannia, Alright UK?
As a native English speaker, I can say with a hand on my heart that my grammar is crap. I was never taught the inner workings of my language until I was forced to in order to attain an English teaching certificate. Now, I can’t get enough of the scientific dissection of the language; but […]
StrikeIron and O’Reilly Media Announce Mashup Contest at ETel
Developers invited to create new applications using multiple content and telephony technologies Research Triangle Park, NC – February 6, 2007 – StrikeIron Inc., the leading provider of live data and business functionality over the web and O’Reilly Media, Inc. today announced the first ever Telephony Mashup Contest to take place during the O’Reilly Emerging Telephony […]
THE INFLUENCE OF INTERNET AND VIRTUAL WORLDS ON WRITTEN TEXT AND THEATRE
Internet and virtual worlds (defined both as communication tools – email, messenger, chat rooms, electronic libraries, electronic audio-visual libraries – and artistic media of expression) represent the trademark of the contemporary times, molding implicitly the cultural and social practices as we speak. Since the feminism revolution and the post structuralism movement, there has not […]
Rahsaan as Orpheus
City Bell, Argentina — "That’s what freedom’s all about; learnin’ somethin’ then throwin’ it away." Rahsaan Roland Kirk One afternoon, about two years ago, I was sitting in my bedroom with a view of a strange, new city, listening to a piece on NPR about dreams and art. It was a cold day and […]
Theatrical and Anti-Theatrical Aesthetics in Romania Today
Miruna Runcan Theatrical and anti-theatrical stage aesthetics in Romania today If one wants to really understand the contemporary substance (general horizon, phenomena and/or directions) of the Romanian theatre stage today, a short historical approach is inevitable. As in many other Central and Eastern European cultural spaces, the modern Romanian theatre was dominated […]