Category Archives: Blogs
It’s a wrap (plus blog stats)
It’s finally over.
Last night at Middleton Place was a terrific cap to this year’s Spoleto Festival.
We’ve seen a lot this year. Some expected, some unexpected, a lot of it memorable, all of it worth doing all over again.
But not for another year.
Meanwhile, it’s time to see what we’ve accomplished.
Here’s the breakdown of what we’ve done, [...]
Buzzcast central
On Friday, the Lowbrow slipped away from morning coffee for a duck into the ersatz podcasting booth at The Post and Courier, where he and fellow CP blogger Jonathan Sanchez became one with an entourage of that paper’s present and former Spoleto reporters and bloggers. Listen to the resulting “bloggers summit” podcast here.
After the big [...]
Liberté, fraternité, egalité
The Lowbrow’s heading into the lion’s den this morning. Earlier this week, I proposed a dual-podcast to my blogging compatriots at The Post and Courier, and Geoff, Dan, and Janet seemed to think it was a swell idea. I’d been struck by a post Dan wrote on Monday about blogging as a meta-narrative that has [...]
Sign of the Times
New York Times reporter James Oestreich files two more reports for his ArtsBeat blog on the festival this afternoon. One’s a bemused rumination on the festival’s frenetic social calendar, which should satisfy Party Blogger Jonathan Sanchez (apparently Oestreich was at last night’s post-Wei/Bang party). In the second, he muses on the ubiquity of Philip Glass’ [...]
Getting forensic on Spoleto 2007
The 31st Spoleto Festival USA is officially in the past tense. It’s now time to get forensic on the thing. But that’s less easy than it sounds. Part of the difficulty in summing up the festival after the fact lies in its nature; as Mayor Riley noted during the mid-festival tribute to founder Gian Carlo [...]