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• The IKEA Infiltration

  
  The Pop-Up City — Authority: 421
  Yesterday, I discussed the emerging social unrest in Hamburg caused by the current neoliberal city-branding campaign and the ongoing policy focus on the creative class instead taking in mind real social problems, such as the growing spatial segregation. A large group of artists came up with a manifest to speak out ...
  2 days ago

• Hamburg’s Manifest Against The Creative Class

  
  The Pop-Up City — Authority: 421
  Richard Florida’s ghost roams throughout Europe these days. We live in a world of global cities that are involved in an interurban competition to attract investors and the so-called international knowledge worker. Keynesian economic policy has made a shift to an entrepreneurial and managerial approach to ...
  3 days ago

• Creative Economy AZ (My Take)

  
  Derek Neighbors — Authority: 425
  Based on the Gangplank Futurespective, one thing I promised myself to investigate was Creative Economy AZ .  This is an initiative to raise 1/10th of cent sales tax for the next 20 years to help fund the arts.  I spent a fair amount of time researching what they had online, but felt it was best to meet with those ...
  4 days ago

• The Loh Down on doing your best

  
  Naptime Writing — Authority: 419
  I told you when I posted about Sandra Tsing Loh’s divorce article in The Atlantic that her perspective is interesting and intriguing. Much more so than Waldman’s (or any of the other so-called bad parents out there). Now that she’s posting about the difficulty of being a real parent in the era where all ...
  1 week ago

• Everyone knows its windy.

  
  NA Confidential — Authority: 432
  Its obvious that renewable energy sources will play a substantial role in the future of our planet. We simply have no choice. Whats not so obvious, but expertly highlighted in Carbon Nation , an upcoming film from local director/producer Peter Byck recently previewed in its entirety at the Carnegie Center , is that ...
  1 week ago

• Commentary on Whats Wrong With Downtown Phoenix

  
  Derek Neighbors — Authority: 425
  Last week Tyler Hurst made a post on what’s wrong with downtown Phoenix . There is certainly one thing he got absolutely right,  “ Downtown Phoenix isn’t about businesses, buildings or parks. It’s about people . Those that live, work and/or play here make this place what it is. ” Here are my thoughts ...
  1 week ago

• Erica & Adam

  
  MERGEweddings.com - Boston boudoir photographer, RI boudoir, creative weddings — Authority: 119
  My last wedding was for two extremely creative and interesting individuals. Erica and Adam are definitely members of the creative class! Every part of the wedding featured unique details hand-selected to fit their tastes and aesthetic. Their amazing friends and family gathered ’round to celebrate their union with ...
  1 week ago

• The Liar, The Witch, and the KKK’s Wardrode

  
  Cocking A Snook! — Authority: 124
  Sarah Palin’s presidential-ambition-blessing pastor was a real, literal witch-hunter and witch-persecutor. No joke. Now comes another no-joke witch story, one I saw earlier today in the Chronicle of Higher Education weekly round-up by Don Troop, under the irresistible and accurately newsworthy headline, “The Liar, ...
  1 week ago

• Creativity and Community: Notes from A European Visit

  
  Futurist.com: Futurist Speaker Glen Hiemstra — Authority: 447
  I recently returned from presenting a workshop at the European Conference on Creativity and Innovation in Brussels. The theme of the conference was “Make It Happen,” with a focus on moving from the idea space, into implementation. Keynoters Kobus Neethling , Tim Hurson , Mark Raison , and others brought ...
  2 weeks ago

• Shocking News: Our Dear Friend Betty Malone

  
  Cocking A Snook! — Authority: 124
  MEG! What happened??Nance and I have just learned of Betty’s passing — stunned and saddened. Dear in life, dear in memory. Betty posted a comment here Sunday, about the religious left emerging. She had been writing on FaceBook about having the flu, and then the morning of Nov. 13 said she was feeling better, [...]
  2 weeks ago

• No Creative Left Behind…

  
  Derek Neighbors — Authority: 425
  I had planned to release this post in a week or two, but I am jumping it up in the queue after hearing Brent Spore’s “ Social Media Universe ” session at PodCamp.  This is largely to refute those people who think we should not be inviting more people into our communities.  I hope the perspective helps change ...
  2 weeks ago

• More About Young Son’s Shakespeare Saturday

  
  Cocking A Snook! — Authority: 124
  Here’s the power of story for Young Son’s Shakespeare scenes coming up this Saturday:FALL WEAVERS FESTIVALSATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1410AM – 4PMMILLSTONE PLANTATION / MILLSTONE INSTITUTE6500 OLD MILLSTONE PLANTATION ROAD, TALLAHASSEE, FL(off Thomasville Rd)$5.00 Admission for AdultsChildren under 12 FreeEVENTS for the ...
  3 weeks ago

• The creative class might be the answer

  
  Things do not change, we change. — Authority: 405
  The Ghosts of Soho , originally uploaded by Thomas Hawk . I am a huge fan of Richard Floridas view on the creative class from his book and I have written posts on it before . He wrote his book a number of years ago but with the current economic crisis its starting to come up again. It seems that he has become ...
  3 weeks ago

• Silicon Prairie News Gives Opportunity to Midwest Creatives

  
  Live with Jay — Authority: 108
  If you think the only things to come out of Nebraska are Warren Buffet, football players and corn, you would be sadly mistaken. To make sure you know of the creative energy that exists in the Midwest, Jeff Slobotski founded Silicon Prairie News in July of 2008. “The goal of Silicon Prairie is to highlight ...
  3 weeks ago

• Clean Up Your Own Yard, Before Cleaning Up The Neighborhood

  
  Derek Neighbors — Authority: 425
  I stumbled up on “ Can Phoenix Make a ‘Creative Class’ appeal ” and found it reassuring that others in the area are talking about the current state of the economy in Metro Phoenix in ways other than “doom and gloom”.  I personally happen to think this massive recession is just the wake up call this region ...
  3 weeks ago

• Sunday Afternoon Doing Shakespeare in the Park with Llamas

  
  Cocking A Snook! — Authority: 124
  The first annual weavers’ and art fall festival at Millstone Plantation happens here Saturday the 14th, and Young Son’s Summer of Shakespeare group will be reprising their Richard III all day. Today for on-site rehearsal, they had the bright, beautiful, breezy lake setting all to themselves — except for the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Pure Dead Brilliant — Jon Stewart Channels Glenn Beck

  
  Cocking A Snook! — Authority: 124
  more about "Pure Dead Brilliant — Jon Stewart Ch…", posted with vodpod Posted in Advocacy, Cognitive Psychology, Creative Class, Cynical Stuff, Discipline-behavior, Dominionists, Ethics and Philosophy, Framing, Health, Humor, Journalism, Language, learning, Liberties and Rights, Literacy, Literalism, Logic, ...
  3 weeks ago

• How Much Planning Went Into Deciding Where to Plant a Church?

  
  The Urban Loft — Authority: 124
  I’ve repeatedly said that what Richard Florida writes about in his book Who’s Your City? has enormous implications for church planting.  It all comes down to the question posed in the title of this blog … how much planning went into deciding where you’re planting a church? To review, in the book Florida ...
  4 weeks ago

• Referendum 71 Appears to be Passing in Washington State

  
  Michael-In-Norfolk - - Coming Out In Mid Life — Authority: 445
  After the soul wrenching loss in Maine on Tuesday, it looks like Washington State may yet proved wrong the axiom that gays cannot win at the ballot box to secure civil rights. More absentee ballots remain to be counted, but projections are that Referendum 71 will pass and that full domestic partnership rights for ...
  4 weeks ago

• Maine Repeals Gays as Human; Public School Parent Protests Gays as Animals

  
  Cocking A Snook! — Authority: 124
  Dan Delong of Carlinville, Ill., at teacher at Southwestern High School in the nearby town of Piasa, will face a school board hearing November 2, after being suspended from teaching. A parent of one unidentified student thought the optional reading assignment was inappropriate for her child . . .When this and this ...
  4 weeks ago

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