Creative economy
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Ethics for theater critics: The Craigslist critic
Does a review that no one paid for have value?
A Seattle theater critic sold his “plus one” press passes on Craigslist in the hopes of both finding a date and scoring a profit. What, exactly, is the problem with that? Let Wendy Rosenfield count the ways.
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Opera Philadelphia's O17 announcement
An announcement of operatic scale
New plans by Opera Philadelphia are daring and forward-looking. There are aspects of concern, however.
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Farewell, 'City Paper'
BSR’s new writer muses about the demise of Philadelphia City Paper, which ceases publication this week.
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Big changes at the Free Library of Philadelphia
Philadelphia's library, reinvented
Money from the William Penn Foundation, along with other public and private gifts, has enabled the library to undertake a big-picture initiative to increase flexibility and efficiency for current and future users in a project called Building Inspiration: 21st Century Libraries.
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Arts in crisis? Really?
Just how did Faulkner survive (not to mention Charles Ives and Marlon Brando)?
Are boorish Americans systematically starving our creative classes, as two critics contend? It’s an old complaint, once voiced by the likes of Mark Twain and Saul Bellow. But where William Giraldi and Scott Timberg see cultural destruction, I see natural creative evolution, and not just in the arts.
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A BlackStar Film Festival panel
Black filmmakers confront the ‘burden of representation’
Must black artists or public figures represent their entire group to the dominant culture? At Philadelphia’s annual BlackStar Film Festival, four filmmakers wrestled with that question.
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Can PBS survive the fundraising trap?
I understand the practicalities of the television business. I understand that if these stations don’t make up their budget shortfalls, the quality of their offerings is likely to suffer, or they might even close down altogether. My concern is the fundraising programming itself and how it is threatening to take over a large segment of our PBS stations’ schedules.
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Has Philadelphia become a cultural backwater?
What do Philly and Spokane have in common?
A great city isn’t a matter of size, but of whether it challenges itself with the best the world has to offer. Philadelphia doesn’t.
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Promoting your writing: a response
The cost of blowing your own horn
Did you find this article via social media? You’re welcome. I put it there, but nobody paid me to do it. Am I the only writer feeling fleeced?
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An elegy for the Boyd Theater
A trip to the Boyd always reminded me of a different era when the movies sought to do more than give the people what they wanted — it gave them something they needed, a place to capture their imaginations and inspire them.
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