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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 [...]
That was a lotta Latin
It looks like there may be another booming storm cooking up out there, preparing to punctuate the tail end of a fine day. As with last week, Monday and Tuesday have been low on rollouts for the Big Festival, as it recuperates from a second crazy weekend and gathers itself for the last mad rush [...]
Hotter than Dutch love
The twenty-something hipster quotient at Friday’s Spoleto Soiree was off the charts and into another realm altogether. You could have powered a small city for a week on the sexual energy crackling around the Gaillard Exhibition Hall, fueled by several open bars, pulse-punding ung-cha-ung-cha from a DJ in the corner, enough liquor to fill the [...]
Chamber of Horrors?
Writing on the 2007 festival for the New York Times’ new ArtsBeat blog yesterday, in a post about Thursday’s Chamber Music V program reporter James Oestreich goes straight for the jugular: “In the Dock Street Theater, a jewel box of an auditorium,” he writes, “Charles Wadsworth presented one of his notorious concerts of chamber music [...]
Group hug!
It seems Ida Becker is miffed with me. In plugging our own Spoleto Party Blog – the online iteration of the City Paper’s Scene column during the fest – I let loose with a wee bit of snark, as happens sometimes, all in good fun. And so at last night’s Faustus afterparty, the Charleston [...]
Cheese and violins
It’s been a wild and woolly 54 hours for the Lowbrow since the start of the Opening Ceremony on Friday. In that time, he’s seen eight shows (or most of eight shows, anyway), chatted up a legion of artists and Spoletians, and slept altogether too little. A too-late night Friday hanging out with a pair [...]
Two scoops or three?
With opening day now in the rear-view mirror, the 2007 festival is officially up and galloping. The Constant Wife had its official premiere last night, as did Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, Chamber Music program I, Rubberbandance Group, and jazz chanteuse Rene Marie at the Cistern.
The Glitterati were also out in full [...]
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 [...]