Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus, renamed: Revenge is a Dish Best Made From Your Enemy’s Children
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William Shakespeare: Titus Andronicus
ATL Urbanist: Job growth for young & educated: city vs. suburbs
Is job growth for the young and educated slipping all over the Atlanta metro or just in the outer regions?
Bizjournals.com reports that the metro area ranks low when it comes to providing opportunities for men and women getting started in their careers (#52 out of 65 metros in the US). Their criteria for the ranking: strong growth rates, moderate costs of living, and substantial pools of young adults who are college-educated and employed.
And yet a USA Today article from a couple of months ago reported that, according to census data, the City of Atlanta saw a 61% increase in 25- to 34-year-olds who have a four-year degree or higher and live within 3 miles of the city’s central business district.
These stats seem to tell two different stories. My take on this: job growth for young, educated people in the metro may be lagging, but it doesn’t reflect what’s happening specifically in intown Atlanta. The significant increase we’ve seen of young, educated folks in the neighborhoods nearest the intown business districts is surely a sign that the job growth here is healthy for that group.
My main concern with job growth in the city is the shortage of work for those without college educations (such as manufacturing jobs). Focusing exclusively on luring jobs for the college-educated leaves many Atlantans at a loss. I hope that continued job growth provides a wider range of opportunities to benefit the full spectrum of Atlantans.
Here’s a video of a cat barking like a dog, until it’s caught, at which point it starts meowing.
Thru Jerusalem – absolutely fantastic new collaborative video by music innovator Kutiman (via)
Conan O’Brien’s absolutely fantastic 2011 Dartmouth College Commencement Address is an instant addition to these 5 timeless graduation speeches (via)
Trailer for Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure by economist Tim Harford, dubbed “Britain’s Malcolm Gladwell” – a fine addition to this selection of 7 fantastic book trailers
By midcentury, professional urban planners were developing and sometimes designing large-scale, long-term regional and urban plans and helping write land-use and other laws to govern urban development’s shape and future.
But without design-review mechanisms, their output of low-quality public housing and ill-conceived megablocks soon turned the public against them. By the late 1960s, an emergent populist, antigovernment sentiment among voters began to shift power back into private hands.
City governments, suffering the economic downturns of the 1970s and ’80s, gave ever more leeway to real estate developers, and ever more voice and political power to hyperlocal community boards; both groups typically focused on their own narrow and usually short-term interests rather than the broader, long-term public good.
— Sarah Williams Goldhagen, architecture critic for the New Republic
A ticket for not riding in the bike lane?
@jasongrote et. al. on Mamet
- @kbyrne91: David Mamet now calls himself "a newly-minted Conservative." Does that mean he'll also consider his profanity-laced writing "offensive"?
- @tmccool: David Mamet: Rich Person Discovers He is a Republican. http://slate.me/kdOUbU @tomscocca
- @jasongrote: @scharpling I'm probably alone in thinking Oleanna was garbage, but I think it's consensus among my peers that Mamet's sucked since the 90s.
- @dmandl: @jasongrote @scharpling But he was very good before then. And I like some of his essays as much as his films. Now, he can go jump in a lake.
- @jasongrote: @dmandl @scharpling Glengarry holds up. American Buffalo & Sexual Perversity are not my thing but I admire them. Hate his ideas on acting.
- @scratchbomb: @jasongrote @scharpling what, you don't like "Bearded Guys Curse at Each Other Parts 1-17"?
- @jasongrote: @scratchbomb LOL
- @jasongrote: @dmandl I agree re. those two films -- everything after that's pretty bad.
- @dmandl: @jasongrote @scharpling I like "House of Games" and "Spanish Prisoner." Yes, his views on acting are bizarre.
- @scharpling: @dmandl @jasongrote I read his book on acting. It now seems like a variant on this garbage - deliberately provocative and contrarian.
- @jasongrote: @scharpling @dmandl Yeah, he's been like that for years. That's my big problem with Oleanna - so every woman claiming harassment is a loon?
- @jasongrote: This is the other thing about David Mamet; he'd be nobody w/o public arts funding in the 70s and 80s.
- @jasongrote: Like most wealthy conservatives, if he had to get his start in the world he espouses, he'd be a failure.
- @jasongrote: In Denver, a critic asked me why there hasn't been a great American play since Angels in America,
- @jasongrote: There have in fact been hundreds of great American plays since Angels in America. But in 1995, the GOP congress slashed arts funding.
- @jasongrote: So nonprofit theaters are scared to do those great American plays; no $ to publicize them means no one knows or cares.
- @jasongrote: American theater mostly occupies itself with domesticity and identity politics (which haven't threatened the status quo since the mid-90s).
- @jasongrote: And fewer and fewer people care! Thankfully we still have musicals and TV. And TV about musicals!
- @jasongrote: By the way, I like plenty plays about domesticity and identity politics. But can not live by bread alone, etc.
- @jasongrote: I am lucky in that I write epic, difficult plays and they get produced. But they will probably never enter the canon.
- @jasongrote: And that's OK with me. But I do take issue with the fact that there isn't a canon of American plays at all anymore.
- @JamesUrbaniak: @scharpling @dmandl @jasongrote The generous take on his prose is that he forces the reader to ferret out the "truth" within.
- @jasongrote: @JamesUrbaniak @scharpling @dmandl I never realized he was a situationist!
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