Way Down Under The Ground. The
tale of
Orpheus's journey through the Underworld has been retold so many times, on
stage, in
film. Tennessee Williams saw it as
Orpheus Descending.
Neil Gaiman took the myth on in the
pages of
Sandman. Today, we have
Hadestown, a new album from
Anais Mitchell. Mitchell recorded "Hades & Persephone" for a
previous release, but
Hadestown is a fully-realized
folk opera, five years in the
making, a collaborative effort featuring contributions from
Greg Brown,
Ani Difranco,
The Haden Tripletts and Justin Vernon (the voice of
Bon Iver).
[more inside]
posted by grabbingsand
on Mar 9, 2010 -
18 comments
No Tourists, No Artists. Tourists at
Atlanta's Underground didn't realize they were working with an real live artist, but they were.
Tom Richmond,
Caricaturist Of The Year for 1998 and 1999,
recipient of a Reuben Award in
2003 ,
one-time comic book creator, and frequent artistic contributor to
Mad Magazine (
movie parodies, mostly), supported his freelance work for almost 18 years by doing cartoons-for-hire in
historic Underground Atlanta.
Despite many efforts to "save" it,
Underground continues to
fade in popularity and the tourist traffic just dwindles on down, leaving folks like Tom no choice but to pack up their paints and leave. Tom's story makes for interesting insight into a job that most of us might take for tourist-trapping huckstery.
(via Radical Georgia Moderate)
posted by grabbingsand
on Jan 7, 2008 -
14 comments
Virgin Comics. You've
sold records, broke records (
sort of), flown
balloons (and
planes), furthered
communication, worked on a
railroad, launched an
airline and promised to send us to
space*, not to mention
several other forays into fashion, restauranteuring, books and film. So what do
you do next?
Sell comic books with
Deepak Chopra,
obviously.
(via Warren Ellis's Bad Signal)
posted by grabbingsand
on Jan 6, 2006 -
22 comments
39¢ Heroes. On January 8, the price of a First Class
US Postage Stamp will creep up
another two cents. But fear not, True Believers, because 20 of those new stamps will feature costumed crusaders from DC Comics "including Superman, Wonder Woman, Plastic Man, Batman, Green Arrow and many more." (
Newsarama has more on the story, including the featured cover images for each hero.)
posted by grabbingsand
on Nov 30, 2005 -
33 comments
