KQED Arts & Culture: Multimedia

May 03, 2008
Art Review : Women in the City

"Alienation produces eccentrics or revolutionaries," announced Jenny Holzer on an old marquis in Hollywood. "Please stop texting," begged Barbara Kruger from an LED screen on the side of an art museum.

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Posted by Kristin Farr at 7:00AM

Feb 02, 2008
Eastside Arts Alliance

Saying the diversity of Oakland is dizzying is to re-utter a truism. More than a hundred -- I've even heard more than 150 -- languages are spoken here, in the Star Wars shadow of our container port. Ethnic cultural orgs form like crystal deposits and scintillate from storefronts in every population knot. There's a there here, but the who is harder.

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Posted by Claire Light at 8:00AM

Jan 31, 2008
Mark Fiore

See how political cartoonist Mark Fiore finds his inspiration for his weekly online animation.

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Earthlink to End Philadelphia WiFi Network
Earthlink notified Philadelphia subscribers that it will dismantle its WiFi network in the city on June 12. Negotiations to transfer the network to another operator broke down. Earthlink is giving subscribers 30 days to find other paths to the Internet.

New York City Makes Cricket a Varsity Sport
For those who grew up with baseball, cricket can be confusing. But for immigrants in New York, it's a way of life. This year, the New York Department of Education introduced the sport into the public school system. It's only the first season, but the varsity league is already in full swing.

On the Victory Train: Balla Tounkara
What's clicking on the Bryant Park Project blog, including news that musician Balla Tounkara has won our subway busker poll.

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