Multimedia | Mar 17, 2012

Late to the Party but Worth the Wait: City Lights Gets a Blog

If you're an aspiring polymath or want to be a more interesting houseguest, you should start reading the City Lights blog, which has covered lots of ground in its mere month in existence. By Marion Anthonisen   

Multimedia | Mar 16, 2012

The Creators Project: Art and Technology Go Steady

The Creators Project, a global celebration of what happens when art holds hands with technology, descends on Fort Mason this weekend with performances by acts like the Yeah Yeah Yeahs! and a David Bowie art installation. Here's a run-down of what you can look forward to. By Emmanuel Hapsis   

Multimedia | Mar 05, 2012

Kapsul: A New Online Platform for Connecting to Art

A sleek and easily-navigated website, Kapsul offers visitors the opportunity to "Collect. Curate. Collaborate." As a platform for interactive with contemporary art texts and images, the site represents a new open-source approach to the creative process. By Sarah Hotchkiss   

Pop Culture | Feb 11, 2012

Uhh Yeah Dude -- The Podcast That Saved My Life

Learning to navigate the real world with Uhh Yeah Dude, a podcast featuring two dudes talking to each other about things they find on the internet. By Lizzy Acker   

Multimedia | Jan 16, 2012

The Memory Be Green

View The Memory Be Green, a half-hour documentary about the creation of Berkeley Repertory Theatre's play "Ghost Light" directed by Jonathan Moscone, son of the late San Francisco mayor George Moscone. By Marie K Lee   

Multimedia | Dec 13, 2011

Eight More Great Bay Area Holiday Activities

We're back with more holiday activities! Screenprint festive t-shirts for free, watch a classic Jim Henson Christmas film, participate in a dreidel spin-off, and celebrate the solstice on the beach. By Marion Anthonisen   

Event | Dec 11, 2011

Face the Itch: Investing in the Creative Hunch

Todd Brown, founder of the Red Poppy Arthouse and the Mission Performance and Arts Project, is unveiling a new model of social/cultural networking. By Evan Karp   

Multimedia | Dec 09, 2011

2011 Holiday Shopping Guide

A San Francisco Bay Area guide for shopping locally and artsy this holiday season. By Marie K Lee   

Multimedia | Nov 05, 2011

The Art of the Photo Blog

There are the personal blogs, running from the diaristic to the professional, and the blogs that act as visual archives and news bulletins, posting about the larger cultural climate of arts and photography. By Carmen Winant   

Multimedia | Oct 29, 2011

Once Magazine: A Group of Friends Prove Photojournalism Isn't Dead Yet

Playing with the newest issue of Once, I suddenly saw the appeal of the iPad itself, which up until then I had been pretty skeptical of. The transitions are smooth, you can view the images without text for as long as you want and the possibilities for interactive features seem almost endless. By Lizzy Acker   

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Digital Life
  • Journey Through Musical Time With This App

    The "Radio Time Machine" is an online application that has collected the top 20 Billboard hits back to 1940. Some transcend their time period, while the appeal of others may be harder to understand. Host Scott Simon speaks with Brett Westervelt, a grad student at Stanford University and the designer of the app.

  • Facebook The Largest Internet IPO In History

    Investors snapped up Facebook shares on a much hyped and tumultuous first day of trading. Mark Zuckerberg got it all started by ringing the opening bell for Nasdaq. Then a glitch delayed trading by half an hour. The IPO put Facebook's market value at over $100 billion — more than McDonald's or Amazon.

  • TED's 'Explicitely Partisan' Talk, Briefly Barred From Its Site, Now Everywhere

    A TED Talk challenging conventional wisdom that rich entrepreneurs are the number one job creators is now available for public viewing, after TED organizers originally kept the video private because it was too "explicitly partisan."

  • Can Crowds Celebrate As A Form Of Protest?

    When Anders Behring Breivik admitted to killing 77 people in Norway in 2011, he claimed that a children's song was "brainwashing" the country's youth. Here's how 40,000 Norwegians reclaimed it.

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Election 2012
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This year it's not just about choosing who will govern us, but also how government should work.

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The Lowdown: Decoding the News

For educators and the generally curious, The Lowdown is a multimedia guide to understanding big news from California and beyond.