Features

Culture | Current_Events | Drama | Personal

“Godspell” is sure to entertain audiences of all ages and faiths

That’s me in the white shirt, with a tie around my head. The show opens tonight.

Anthony Marino, artistic director for the performing arts group and professional theater company Stage Right! in Greensburg, has played the role of Judas in the classical musical, “Godspell” eight times.

He is about to take stage for the ninth [...]

Culture | Current_Events | Cyberculture | Journalism | Media

40% Say Internet Best Way to Get News, 37% Say TV

The article is short, but I particularly like the links that show the wording of the questions and the survey methodology. Bear in mind that this survey does not check o see which form of news is more accurate, comprehensive, unbiased, timely, profitable, etc. The survey just asks for personal preference.

More Americans turn to [...]

Current_Events | Drama | Personal | Religion

Stage Right spreads the gospel of music with ‘Godspell’

Screen Shot 2013-02-27 at 4.11.32 PM

The Tribune-Review is very dependable in its coverage of the local arts. (That’s me kneeling in the white shirt, with a tie around my head.)

It’s not always the adults who are the teachers.

In Stage Right’s production of the Broadway musical “Godspell,” director Anthony Marino says it’s the youngest performers who spread the word [...]

Aesthetics | Culture | Current_Events | Design | Government | Media | Modding | Rhetoric

Kate Upton and Ryan Gosling Explain the Sequester

original

Apparently these are two famous and physically attractive celebrities who are popular enough that lots of people will wade through lots of words in order to look at pictures of them doing things that celebrities do. Which presumably does not usually include talking about the federal budget.

Kate Upton and Ryan Gosling Explain the [...]

Culture | Current_Events | Journalism | Rhetoric

Sorry, but I am done hearing about the “Cruise from Hell” story. Done.

Screen Shot 2013-02-19 at 5.18.06 PM

Okay, so yeah. One of these describes a very unpleasant, completely ruined vacation. The other sounds like hell.

Current_Events | Nature | Science

Asteroid 2012 DA14 brushes by Earth

521420_10152541617780696_2093683205_n

An asteroid is making the closest known fly-by for a rock of its size today, just hours after a meterorite crashed to Earth in Russia, with nearly a thousand people injured by space debris in an event unprecedented in modern times. Scientists insist the events are purely coincidental… Follow all the latest news, reaction, and [...]

Current_Events | Journalism | Media

Secrets of a 60 Minutes cameraman

Don_Lee

They say polo ponies can run 35 mph and then stop on a dime. But how would you like to be the cameraman who’s forced to stand still, as a massive horse comes barreling at him?

That’s exactly what 60 Minutes cameramen Chris Albert and Don Lee did to film “The Sport of Kings,” a [...]

Business | Current_Events | Cyberculture | Design | Ethics | Media | Social_Software | Writing

Flickr Is Back, Letting Us Go Home Again

Blogging this mostly because of the good writing.

Facebook is a continuing nightmare of privacy disasters. It’s the bathroom door that resists all efforts at locking, swinging open again and again while you’re trying to poop. When even Mark Zuckerberg’s own sister (and also the company’s former marketing director) can accidentally share photos in [...]

Amusing | Culture | Current_Events | Rhetoric

I Gotta Get the Bread & Milk

Business | Current_Events | Cyberculture | Design | Journalism | Media | Writing

The State Of Media Employment

there-are-many-media-jobs-where-growth-is-expected-unfortunately-for-reporters-reporters-arent-one-of-them

This is why I require my “new media journalism” students to do more than simply write stories — they must know how to edit, create multimedia, and work on team projects.

See other sobering charts, via Business Insider.