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Media, Television, Music
Things to fill up your mind so it has a chance to remain optimistic, informed, able to think critically, discerning...you know all the things that make us "intelligent" beings while retaining our humanity.
More added monthly-ish
Media
Evidence by Godfrey Reggion. A short film on Youtube.
Flow is an online journal of television and media studies launched in October 2004. In our eleven-year history, we have published over 1390 columns by over 700 authors from around the U.S. and the world. Flow‘s mission is to provide a critical forum where scholars, teachers, students, and the general public can read about and discuss the changing landscape of contemporary media at the speed that media moves
Visual and Performing Arts
American Shakespeare Center in Staunton, VA
American Treasures of the Library of Congress
Chocolate Church Arts Center in Brunswick, Maine
Los Angeles Country Museum of Art
Portland Stage, the Theater of Maine
Music
30 Songs that capture the spirit of trade.
A brilliantly talented British musician.
One of the longest running mp3 blogs on the web. Plus Acoustic Music
Fun, energy.
Nationally-touring and Boston Music Award winning Latin ensemble led by Puerto Rican/Argentine singer and bongo player Rosi Amador and New Mexican guitarist and composer Brian Amador. The sextet has established a reputation for their quirky original compositions that address matters of the heart, social and global aspiration and for their unique and driving interpretations of contemporary Latin music.
The Canadian perspective of music about place.
Since 1968, Wild sanctuary has traveled the globe to record, archive, research, and express the voice of the natural world - its soundscape. These increasingly rare sounds of the wild inform and enrich our specialized efforts from the field to public performance.
Television
Be a revolutionary, turn off the television
Critical studies in television
scholarly resource with blog
Usually intellectual, frequently entertaining, mostly fair in its coverage of news, events, and people.
On May 2-8, children, families, and communities around the world will rediscover the joys of life beyond the screen. Unplug from digital entertainment and spend your free time playing, reading, daydreaming, creating, exploring, and connecting with family and friends.
Television watching statistics
If you thought just watching television was frightening enough, here are some numbers that are truly scary.
Why you should turn off the TV, computer & close the blinds in your bedroom by John M. Grohol, Psy.D.