The ascendance of podcasts has resuscitated the mostly-dead art once called the radio drama. This adaptation of Oscar Wilde's short story is one of the best new examples I've heard.
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2021 SXSW Film Festival Review ‘Executive Order’
This dynamic, often poetic dystopian thriller draws one in with its immediacy. Shot on location in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, it's set in the distant future, but its contemporary issues prove stunning.
Read More »Theater Interview: Emma McDonald from ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’
Actress Emma McDonald explains this modern take on Oscar Wilde's classic and the challenges of making a digital production.
Read More »March 2020 – March 2021: The Year of Living Dangerously
As I turned the calendar pages during this past year, I kept thinking that this was the year of living dangerously because it seemed danger lurked everywhere.
Read More »Climate Change’s Growing Toll on Culture and the Arts
From historic buildings to electric guitars, and from fine wines to ancient statues, irreplaceable pieces of culture and the arts around the world are falling victim to our runaway use of fossil fuels.
Read More »Remote Learning – The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
After the first week of remote learning for the spring 2021 semester, I have mixed feelings about the situation.
Read More »Theater Review: ‘Dog Act’ by Liz Duffy Adams, from The Seeing Place Theater (Live Stream)
The visceral power of this post-apocalyptic, quasi-Shakespearean dark comedy doesn't come through in this virtual production.
Read More »CES 2021: NASCAR Robots, Start Your Engines
Students from around the world have teamed with NASCAR to develop self-driving cars and improve their safety.
Read More »CES 2021: Online Technology Show Done Right
The Consumer Electronics Show (CES), like so many other film, trade, and technology events this past year, went digital. CES, however, was different. I’d begun to feel some burnout after so many ZOOM or other technology based online experiences. As I should have expected, the CES sponsor, the Consumer Technology …
Read More »Coronavirus – Celebrating a New Year’s Eve Unlike Any Other
It was once again New Year’s Eve, but the 2020 version just didn’t feel right to me.
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