Category Archives: Internet
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 [...]
So two comedians walk into a ballet studio…
My 90 minutes with Philip Glass’ Book of Longing is now already almost 27 hours past, and on top of that I have to distill some thoughts on today’s final Music in Time concert and this evening’s encounter with the extraordinary (get a ticket now at any cost) Aurelia’s Oratorio. But first, a word on [...]
Another Book review
Another review of Friday’s world premiere of Book of Longing drops in Toronto, this one from the Globe and Mail. The wrap graf:
“In the end, Book of Longing was a chance worth taking, and enjoyable to witness. You could hear the two participants greeting each other across their different disciplines, if not always embracing. It [...]
New York Times on the local arts beat
There’s a new Spoleto blogger on the scene, at least for the moment: New York Times arts reporter James R. Oestreich, posting yesterday evening at 9pm on the Times’ new Arts Beat blog. In the past year, the Times has rolled out a seemingly endless series of blogs administered by staff writers and reporters. One [...]
Blogging the old-fashioned way
If you’ve noticed the most recent issue of the City Paper, which hit the streets this morning – and it’s hard not to notice; our annual Spoleto kickoff Buzz-O-Meter issue has roughly the heft of a telephone book – then you’ll hopefully understand why the Lowbrow has been a little preoccupied lately. But with that [...]
Rite of Spring: Marcus Overton’s Spoleto Today
Exactly four days — or, if you like, 96 hours — now stand between us and the opening of Spoleto Festival 2007. One of the most reliable harbingers of festival season is that annual rite of public radio known as Spoleto Today, the SCETV-produced live morning program devoted to the two festivals, in which erudite, [...]
Never play Scrabble with the Late Night Players
The Late Night Players, old Piccolo and Charleston Comedy Festival hands, return to the lower peninsula in a couple of weeks for Theatre 99’s Piccolo Fringe and a quartet of shows at Buxton’s East Bay Theatre. One of the Boston-based sketch comedy outfit’s favorite devices is the anagram, that age-old parlor game in which all [...]
My Superego is washing its hands of the whole thing
I’m not much of one for horn tooting, but in the Web 2.0 world the Lowbrow’s natural modesty is sorely tested by a pathological, even primeval, craving for page views. So I’ll out with it, though I do so – and I want this on the record – only under severe arm-twisting from my Id: [...]
Help Kenny Z
Prodigal son David Lee Nelson and Kenny Z will return to Charleston from Gotham in a couple of weeks for a second Piccolo run with their Skinny White Comics team, headlined once again by Tom Shillue. As a lead-up to their Piccolo gig, David and Kenny created a short video to let Spoleto Buzz readers [...]
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 [...]