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The Misread City: Announcing CultureCrash
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SCOTT TIMBERG ON WEST COAST CULTURE AND BEYOND. Wednesday, February 5, 2014. MY ardor for and fascination with the West Coast are undiminished. But recently I've put most of my blogging energies into my new project, CultureCrash. Scott Timberg on Creative Destruction. It's part of the ArtsJournal family, and I began it on the invitation of the site's founder, Doug McLennan. These are crucial issues that I'll get into more deeply into my book, which comes out on Yale University Press later this year.
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The Misread City: Dave Allen on Rock Music and the Internet
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SCOTT TIMBERG ON WEST COAST CULTURE AND BEYOND. Wednesday, December 11, 2013. Dave Allen on Rock Music and the Internet. RECENTLY I've been corresponding with Dave Allen, bassist for the British post-punk group Gang of Four. His ideas on digital culture - mostly strongly opposed to those of David Lowery and David Byrne - are as forceful as his bass playing on Entertainment! But Allen's an extremely sharp guy, a lively writer, and he deserves to be heard. Here's. December 23, 2013 at 12:17 AM. Johnny Cash...
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The Misread City: February 2014
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SCOTT TIMBERG ON WEST COAST CULTURE AND BEYOND. Wednesday, February 5, 2014. MY ardor for and fascination with the West Coast are undiminished. But recently I've put most of my blogging energies into my new project, CultureCrash. Scott Timberg on Creative Destruction. It's part of the ArtsJournal family, and I began it on the invitation of the site's founder, Doug McLennan. These are crucial issues that I'll get into more deeply into my book, which comes out on Yale University Press later this year.
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The Misread City: January 2014
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SCOTT TIMBERG ON WEST COAST CULTURE AND BEYOND. Monday, January 27, 2014. The Life and Death of Classical Music. MANY – perhaps most – of the people who follow the state of culture get tired of stories about the graying of the arts audience, the decline of arts education, the falling off of record sales, etc. I used to be among them, until it became clear to me a few years ago that the problems were real and that ignoring them did us (and the arts) absolutely no good. But there’s much of value in t...
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The Misread City: October 2013
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SCOTT TIMBERG ON WEST COAST CULTURE AND BEYOND. Monday, October 14, 2013. Radar Bros and Overseas at the Satellite. The Radar Bros, on Merge Records, are well known to Angeleno indie fans, tho still probably not celebrated enough. With roots in the '90s "slowcore" scene that's also included Spain and Acetone, they've become tougher and a bit harder. (The joke used to be that they were the only band in history that played slower when they performed live.). Here's a video for one of their new songs:. I'm a...
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The Misread City: July 2013
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SCOTT TIMBERG ON WEST COAST CULTURE AND BEYOND. Wednesday, July 31, 2013. Rachel Kushner and Laura Owens. RECENTLY I spoke to novelist Rachel Kushner, whose The Flamethrowers. Is far and away among the most celebrated novels of the year, and artist Laura Owens, whose recent show of recent paintings in her own Boyle Heights space reminds us why she became the youngest artist to have a career retrospective at the MOCA. Monday, July 22, 2013. Here's their song, Virginia Slims, from their record Baba Yaga.
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The Misread City: December 2013
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SCOTT TIMBERG ON WEST COAST CULTURE AND BEYOND. Sunday, December 29, 2013. The Life and Death of the Alternative Press. IF it weren't for the '80s Village Voice, I probably would not be a journalist. (The world, I expect, would be a better place.). This weekend I have a story. And I try to sketch out what various weeklies have meant to the city of Los Angeles, which remains the Misread City. Happy holidays to all my readers. Sunday, December 15, 2013. Richard Rodriguez on Religion, Atheism and Politics.
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The Misread City: The Life and Death of the Alternative Press
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SCOTT TIMBERG ON WEST COAST CULTURE AND BEYOND. Sunday, December 29, 2013. The Life and Death of the Alternative Press. IF it weren't for the '80s Village Voice, I probably would not be a journalist. (The world, I expect, would be a better place.). This weekend I have a story. And I try to sketch out what various weeklies have meant to the city of Los Angeles, which remains the Misread City. Happy holidays to all my readers. Have you had any comment from the so-called Association of Alternative Newsmedia?
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The Misread City: November 2013
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SCOTT TIMBERG ON WEST COAST CULTURE AND BEYOND. Thursday, November 21, 2013. Cheering George Packer's "The Unwinding". LORD know this book does not need any more praise, but I want to wave the tattered American flag for George Packer's The Unwinding. Which just won the National Book Award. The book is not perfect - more on that in a minute - but it is lyrical, powerfully reported, passionately written, and lives up to its subtitle: "An Inner History of the New America.". The larger discussion of the book...
