by Peter Gilbert | Jul 26, 2012 | The Public Humanist
During the first half of the twentieth century, the Olympic Games included competition not only in sports but also in the Fine Arts, just as the ancient Olympic Games did. I confess that when I first learned this, I thought what a great Monty Python sketch might be...
by Rob Stewart | Aug 7, 2012 | The Public Humanist
You should see my type closet. It’s pretty big. I have sporty type and strappy type. Workhorse type and formal type. As a graphic designer, I’m constantly trying on new typefaces, falling in and out of love with typefaces, and wondering if this typeface...
by Bill Lichtenstein | Aug 9, 2012 | The Public Humanist
For those who lived in Boston in the late 1960s and early 1970s, the underground, free-form radio station WBCN-FM was the soundtrack of their lives. In the days before Facebook and Twitter, before the internet and GPS, and even before you could listen to rock music on...
by Brian Glyn Williams | Aug 22, 2012 | The Public Humanist
Following his recent trip to Israel key Mitt Romney advisor Dan Senor summed up the former Massachusetts’ governor’s position vis a vis Israel and Iranian nukes as follows “If Israel has to take action on its own, in order to stop Iran from...
by Daniel John Carroll | Sep 4, 2012 | The Public Humanist
The concept of authenticity is held with great conviction in certain quarters of musicology, as it fulfills the purportedly necessary condition that performances be done as closely as possible to the way they were done in the time of the composition of a particular...
