It's pretty, but is theatre any longer necessary?
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Attention Helicopter Parents: College Is Not In Your Airspace
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: The back porch was a pile of garbage bags and empty Natural Light beer cases. A ramshackle shed held rolls of filthy old carpet. City Councilman Dan Gilman grimaced. “Look at this,” he said, standing behind a large three-story house at Centre Avenue and Dithridge Street in Oakland that houses nine tenants, including college students. “It’s just disgusting. And this is what neighbors have to live next to. ... This property is a disgrace.”How An Offbeat Side Job Can Supercharge Your Creative Process
Fast Company | Business + Innovation: For the past seven years, editor and designer Brian McMullen had a dream creative job as the senior art director and one of the senior editors at literary and humor publisher McSweeney's. He founded and ran the company's award-winning kids' book department, McSweeney's McMullens (where he published his own book Hang Glider and Mud Mask in 2012), helped to launch food magazine Lucky Peach, and oversaw much of the creative direction of a brand known for its unique and dynamic visuals. And in his spare time, he's a Lyft driver.CuteCircuit on smart textiles and digital fashion
www.dezeen.com: Francesca Rosella of interactive fashion brand CuteCircuit claims advances in digital "smart" fabrics will revolutionise the fashion industry, allowing us to download new styles for our clothes rather than buying new garments.
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To start, the title of this article sets me on edge. Theatre is entertaining and should keep entertaining until it no longer can. I don't feel as though this topic should even be an option. The author of this article believe that we have lost the beauty in theatre and the meaning that it 'once had', and now only focus on making it 'decorative'. Contrary to his opinion, you can decorate something and give it more meaning at the same time. Sometimes more is better and sometimes less is better. It all depends on the person and the piece that they are attacking. Theatre has great meaning and is also decorative, get used to it-because it's not going anywhere.
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