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Acknowledging Courage

Monday, November 21st, 2016 by Drew McManus

One of the most challenging aspects within the field of arts and culture is navigating the political landscape. Short of safe positions such as opposing funding cuts to arts and culture, adopting public positions on politically charged issues almost certainly produces outcomes that require enduring institutional pain. Consequently, it is worth noting when an organization decides to stake a political position and that’s exactly what happened this weekend at a regularly …

Link Love Wednesday

Wednesday, November 9th, 2016 by Drew McManus

The thought of writing an article for the day after the election seemed a bit overwhelming but it dawned on me that I haven’t posted any sort of formal link love style post in quite some time. Consequently, it is high time to rectify that oversight so here’s what has been catching my attention as of late. At Inside The Arts… If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a million …

Bracing For Impact

Monday, November 7th, 2016 by Drew McManus

Simply put, tomorrow’s election scares the living daylights out of me. But as President Obama says, ‘Don’t boo. Vote!’ and that’s precisely what I hope everyone plans on doing tomorrow, if you haven’t done so already. But in an effort to keep the anxiety at bay, I decided to occupy my mind with mindless, but useful, webmaster tasks such as database optimization and making data driven user experience changes to the …

Arts And The Election

Thursday, October 20th, 2016 by Drew McManus

Yes, the third presidential debate was held last night. No, we aren’t discussing it here. Instead, let’s take a moment to examine American’s for the Arts’ (A4A) ArtsVote2016 resource center. Once you get past the user interface, the A4A’s resource is an entirely useful resource when it comes to determining which candidates you opt to support based on their record and position related to the arts and arts education. As a …

Let’s Talk About New Music In Chicago

Friday, October 7th, 2016 by Drew McManus

I’ll own up to some hometown prejudice today by giving a shout-out to Chicago’s Ear Taxi new music festival, running from Oct 5 through Oct 10. More to the point, I want to highlight a series of articles that have been going up at NewMusicBox.org (NMBx). First up, read NMBx’s very own Frank J. Oteri’s Why The 21st Century Is The Most Exciting Time For Music and follow that with Made …