Entertainment & Arts Archive ZeroOne – Where art and technology create compelling experiences: The TV set. Computer. Cell phone. Movie theater. These are technologies that More + Add to your town’s creative experiences: It depends on it. Especially if you feel your community is lacking More + A community center for arts groups: As profiled this week, there are workplace-community centers for creatives and high-tech More + Creative events for a creative venue: What good is a great theater or hall without events worth going More + The best theater in America?: When your theater has its own fan site, you know you’re cool. More + Looking for a model downtown music festival?: Check out Austin’s South by Southwest, better known as SXSW. Is it More + What’s the neighborhood downtown version of the TV guide?: For the MidCity, Washington DC neighborhoods, it’s www.midcitylive.com, an updated version of More + What is the mother of all art events?: That’s easy – Art Basel in Switzerland and Miami Beach are the More + What’s a successful monthly downtown event?: While the last entry listed a series of neighborhood downtown events, the More + Any good ideas for neighborhood downtown events?: Just as a theater doesn’t come to life unless it has a More + Chicago developer’s lifetime investment in artist community: What did it take to revive a neglected neighborhood with historic buildings More + When shopping meets ‘pajama party’ in the city: So you like shopping. You enjoy the buzz of downtown nightlife. You More + Measuring the economic benefits of arts on a community: Why should a city invest in the arts? While artists have no More + When affordable art meets affordable nightlife…: So you’re young and can’t afford gallery art just yet. Or you’re More + Going out in pursuit of some trivial fun…: Connect Four, Trivial Pursuit, Backgammon… the games you played as a kid… More + Making ‘planned spontaneity’ easier: If there’s one thing that appeals to our audience, it’s planned spontaneity More + Neighborhoods funding the new arts, not corporations: Corporate funding for the arts dropped 48% in the last 15 years; More + The value of artists in urban development: An abstract depiction of a proposed place can often capture its emotion, More + The return of theaters (and people) to downtowns: While there’s a movement afoot to preserve the 300-400 historic theaters that More + “Open DJ” night drawing crowds…: Ever feel so good about a song or two that you wished More + The merging of entertainment and retail: Main streets are no longer the department-store-oriented retail districts they used to More + Banners bring some style: Just a few banners applied here to a restored historic building help More + Alternative nightlife: Dodgeball: There’s more to nightlife than restaurants and bars, and one of the More + Placemaking from an artful perspective: What would a city look like from an arts point of view? More + Can artists bring vitality to an abandowned downtown?: The artists in the Massachusetts town of Pittsfield think so. Pittsfield lost More + Where’s the heart of entertainment in Ann Arbor?: If there’s only one area to go in Ann Arbor for entertainment, More + Athfest – “#1 Campus Scene that Rocks”: That’s according to Rolling Stone Magazine. Ath Fest, a nonprofit annual music More + Every neighborhood should have its day: This is my neighborhood and this is its day – Adams Morgan More + Walk-in theater: As drive-in theaters continue to close down, walk-in theaters (often on big More + A third place for musicians (and wanna-be’s): Ever wanted to start a band but couldn’t find neighbors who were More + 12345