Author: thinaar
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Provocative Posts du Jour
These two posts gave me pause in a good way, for entirely different reasons. First: Steven Horwitz An explanation by an economist as to why certain kinds of regulation were part of what caused the housing market meltdown. Might be helpful to bypass some of the rhetoric, because it’s actually an interesting critique. I’ve had…
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How To Kill Yourself And Why, Reading at University Settlement
That’s (l to r) Paul Willis, Emily McDonnell, Jim Himelsbach and Tricia Rodley. We did a reading of a theater piece of mine at University Settlement on Eldridge Street last night. It’s called How To Kill Yourself And Why: An Act in Three Plays. I started it five years ago by interviewing a monk named…
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Floyd Bennett Field Dance Hottie
This is Johanna S. Meyer, aka my better half, after losing a brief battle with an airplane. She was fighting the plane while rehearsing for Dancing in the Streets’ Dance Charette program at Floyd Bennett Field.
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Studio 360 Story about me and Free Theater of Belarus
A few months ago I went to Minsk to work with Free Theater of Belarus. This is the radio story that aired this week on the NPR show Studio 360 about the trip and the group.
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Princess Kay of the Milky Way, 2008
I grew up in Minnesota, which hosts the nation’s second largest state fair, behind Texas. Each year there is a beauty and talent contest featuring young women from each county in the state. The finalists have their likenesses carved in 90 pound blocks of butter. In front of the whole Dairy building. In previous years…
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Artists and gentrification
I just came back from the Creative Capital annual retreat, where I taught a workshop in professional development for their new grantees. Someone asked me to write down what I said there about the Creative Economy – a great discussion came up about it at our workshop – and so I’ll give it a whirl…