The 2007 YouTube Video Award winners have been announced (see all the nominees here), and they certainly provide fodder for debate. Not that I think the criteria were necessarily about critical standards, […]
Quotabull
It’s fair to ask whether a college kid should have to wash dishes in the dining hall to pay his tuition when his college has a billion dollars in the bank. — […]
VerseDay: Slow, slow fresh fount – how to control your words and your emotions…
A couple of weeks ago I spoke with you about poetry of ideas. Today’s entry will look at poetry that controls emotion. The poet pictured above is Ben Jonson – “O rare […]
Can the Earth survive?: Weisman's The World Without Us
by Chris Mackowski The World Without Us by Alan Weisman Thomas Dunne Books–St. Martin’s Press 324 pp. What would the world be like if the human race just up and vanished? “Unlikely, […]
ArtSunday: Hidden in plain sight — seen by many, known by few
Imagine a great artist whose work is seen on a daily basis by hundreds of thousands of people. Yet, even though many not only enjoy, but are transported by, his triumphs, they […]
OK Go says Net Neutrality good for music
Tim Karr has an important read for music lovers up at HuffPo. In it, he covers OK Go’s descent into Washington to promote the importance of Net Neutrality to independent musicians. The […]
VerseDay: Poetry as acts of the mind….
Most American students have been confronted with this famous poem by William Carlos Williams at some point in their academic careers: so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain […]
TunesDay: obscurity and influence
Who are the most influential bands and artists in the history of rock? Well, start with The Beatles and Elvis, I guess, and for good reason. Chuck Berry, Little Richard, The Stones, […]
Seven days o' features
Scholars & Rogues has added a couple of new features to its lineup, and we hope the new additions will provide our readers with even more reason to check by each day […]
ArtSunday: Impressionism exhibit offers a lesson in tradition and rebellion
[An artist] should copy the masters and re-copy them, and after he has given every evidence of being a good copyist, he might then reasonably be allowed to do a radish, perhaps, […]
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