SpoJo Chuck shares his experience watching Chocolate Thunder and Shelley Magee & The Bad Deeds.

This is an excellent piece for those who should know that journalism is not the only field rapidly changing with the freedom of access granted by technology.

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Refusing to explain your standards of evaluation in an inclusive and explicit way still seems avant garde today, yet this post-modern attitude has been the fashionable stance in Western art since at least the 1960s. It began as a response to authority. It has now become authority.

Geoff Marshall reports in from a cast party for The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea.

After a nearly 15-year-split, Spoleto Festival USA and the Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto, Italy, will once more unite to present artistic programs. Both comprehensive arts festivals were founded by the late Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Gian Carlo Menotti, and they shared performers and productions until they split in 1993 over personality differences and funding issues. ...