A Lesson in Context

New York’s Niagara Falls have been lit with rainbow-colored lights at dusk since 1925.

In Honor of the Debt Ceiling Debate, er, Debacle

Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo reminds us of the following in a blog posting called Hamilton's Dream:

Indeed, the national debt -- created through the federal assumption of state war debts -- was created to do precisely this: get the holders of bonds, necessarily wealthy and powerful people, to have a vested interest in the fixity and stability of the federal government.

And now we segue to writer and star of the Broadway musical “In the Heights,” Lin-Manuel Miranda performs "The Hamilton Mixtape" at the White House Evening of Poetry, Music, and the Spoken Word:

The Future of Theater

Interactive, media-enriched, experiential, inventive, zeitgeistian (we're officially creating that adjective as of this post), this is a piece of theater/entertainment we can get behind. You must read the whole piece to understand how this works, but here's a graph from the New York Times:

“Red Cloud Rising: The Fifth Wall,” an innovative, genre-defying entertainment created by the director, producer and actress Gyda Arber. Call it an alternate-reality game played in primary reality. Call it avant-garde performance art. Call it whatever you want. I just call it brilliant.

And here's a slide show.

The show has been extended (no surprise)at The Brick (although it doesn't actually occur at the Brick).