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Ever heard of Italian investment company Sorgente? No? Well, aside from producing excellent returns for its investors, and thus ensuring that many will end up with a pension at the end of their careers, Sorgente’s investment strategy is helping protect the world’s heritage. Sorgente owns New York’s Flatiron One thing I love about Italy is the country’s ability to preserve its cultural heritage. Although there is evidence, in the form of Palermo, for example, to suggest the contrary,

p2pnet news view | P2P | Music:- Once upon a time, Geoff Taylor, 41, worked for Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music’s IFPI (International Federation of Phornographic Industry). It goes without saying he’ s a lawyer and, for the past couple of years, he’s been head truth-basher at the Big 4’s BPI (British Phornographic Industry). In her wisdom Auntie, aka the BBC , Britain’s publicly funded national radio and TV broadcaster, gave him free spin-space through which he di

(Guest post by Greg Forster) I don’t get to see many movies anymore – at least, not many by my standards. And when you can only see maybe four to six movies a year in the theater, you’re going to end up seeing the obvious ones - Batman, Star Trek, whatever Pixar does this year, etc. But there was a time when we used to see a lot of movies. And that meant we had the luxury of picking through the enormous pile of garbage that is the arthouse and finding the few movies that make the arthouse wo

Think Chinese art is limited to calligraphy and Mao posters? Think again. This evening, I attended a film festival in the 798 District , a super-trendy art and cultural space in Beijing. A gallery there was showing films from The 48 Hour Film Project , an international city-by-city contest in which filmmakers have exactly 48 hours to write, shoot and edit a short film. The best films go to Cannes. I met up with Beijing resident and fellow Iolani grad Nelson Quan, who produced one

Smart analysis, as usual, by Lisa Duggan, in The Nation: Forget everything you think you know about Utah. Yes, it’s the reddest state in the union and the headquarters of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS). For the past twenty-five years, Republicans have had a virtual lock on statewide offices. Utah hasn’t voted for a Democrat for president since 1964, and last year the state chose John McCain over Barack Obama by almost a 2-to-1 margin. But here in Salt Lake City

If you have a taste for Jazz, experimental music, or sophistocated indie soundscapes you may well know Rob Cambre and Anxious Sound. I’ve known Rob since the early ’90’s when the RC Bridge Lounge was the site of shows like Helios Creed, Nipples of Isis, and others. While he is the one with all the musical talent we have both deveoted years of effort to the creative scene in New Orleans. It should not surprise us that our very own Alfred E. Newman of government, Bobby Jindal, not only does not

Surprising. Invigorating. Thought provoking. The Arizona State University Art Museum continues to present the best in contemporary art with exhibitions in all media by regional and international, emerging and established artists. The ASU Art Museum organizes these outstanding contemporary art exhibitions – which often receive national and international attention – and presents them in innovative ways for students and visitors. The fall 2009 season, titled Defining Sustainability , is a s

Fostering innovation through public investment is an important strategy for achieving a transition to a clean energy economy by 2050. Strategic, yes, but definitely not the whole story. In order to fund innovators you need a society that engenders innovation. One major way to produce innovators is through high quality education. Rigorous science, engineering, and mathematics programs that inspire young students to approach the climate change dilemma with a sense of possibility and creativity

Think about what defining skills make up the professional museum world. I don’t mean the people who are marketing, finance etc. No disrespect meant. I know that they provide excellent and necessary services that require a lot of knowledge about museums, but I believe that a good cultural marketing person would be a good marketing person anywhere. These people provide structure, not definition. Which basically leaves the various guises and aspects of the “curatorial” staff. What were these peop

As Malawi marches into the Twenty-First Century against demand for modern of information and communication together with the acute shortage of advanced expertise in the Ministry of Information and Civic Education will soon be water under the bridge, thanks to a tailor made degree programme for journalists in the ministry of Information and Civic Education. The Faculty of Humanities at Chancellor College, a constituent college of the University of Malawi, has drawn a new Bachelor of Arts Commu