Glenn Selig, a publicist for Rod Blagojevich, says the recently impeached former Illinois governor signed a six-figure deal on Monday to write a book “exposing the dark side of politics.” (via The Huffington Post) Update: (3/9) BLAGOJEBOOK
Archive for March 2nd, 2009
Today’s Sign of the Apocalypse: Blago, Author
Posted in Books, Congress, Crimes & Misdemeanors, Current Events, Obama, Politics, Sign of the Apocalypse, Writers & Writing on March 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Got Dem Stock Market Blues”: Soundtracks for the Recession
Posted in Blues & Jazz, Business, Economy, Popular Culture, Popular Music, Rock 'n' Roll on March 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“So maybe it shouldn’t come as a shock that now, as we scarily slump our way into an economic downturn destined to put Carter/Reagan-era stagflation to shame, music that came out around the Great Depression is feeling curiously current. In 1998, the venerable reissue label Yazoo Records compiled 46 songs of bank failure, credit collapse, [...]
Nora’s Last Scene: Mabou Mines’ Dollhouse Ends Final Run
Posted in Actors & Acting, Brooklyn, DUMBO, Literature, New York City, Performing Arts, Plays & Playwrights, Sex & Gender, Theater, Writers & Writing on March 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Mabou Mines’ Dollhouse, which first opened in late 2003 at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn, returned to St. Ann’s last month after five years of touring the world, for what is likely the final staging of the celebrated adaptation of Ibsen’s “protofeminist” classic, A Doll’s House. This exhilarating, bawdy and broadly comic production, in which the male actors are [...]
