Archive for February, 2010
Stephanie Izard
I love my pop culture as much as I love my high culture. I also love great food, so when pop culture and great food collide, it’s a magical thing.
I’m a big fan of that wonderful melding of food and pop culture -- Bravo’s Top Chef. This despite the fact that when I got the Top Chef cookbook I needed to google a bunch of the ingredients that were obscure to me (salad burnet? char siu barbecue sauce?)
Anyway, I’m thrilled that Stephanie Izard, winner of Top Chef season 4 and a highly accomplished chef/restauranteur, gives Mom Culture insight about her experiences on the show and as a chef who makes food a high art.
We also get a sneak peak at[ READ MORE ]
Dessa
Does the following statement describe you: “Values resilience, loyalty, and creative expression in everyday life.”
It’s a great statement, but it wasn’t offered up as a description for parents. Those words are how Dessa describes a basic tenet of the hip hop community, and Dessa knows what she’s talking about. She not only teaches “The Language of Rap and the Spoken Word” at a college of music, but she’s also a successful rapper/lyricist/singer/author - a rising star in the world of hip hop. I'm mad - good mad, as in wild about - her sound. I could probably add 6 more words to try to describe her sound and it still wouldn't capture it, so take a listen here and throughout the interview[ READ MORE ]
Pam Longobardi
What Pam Longobardi's art is made of will surprise and disgust you.
This piece, "Human Mirror," was created from plastics and debris that were washed up on the gorgeous beaches in Costa Rica.
Artist and Georgia State University art professor Pam Longobardi has made it a mission to use her art to draw attention to how we treat our earth. The vehicles for her message come in the form of luminous paintings, award-winning video, photography and halting installations using netballs and man-made debris that washes up on shores (more on this in the q&a.)
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“Faces of America”
“It’s liberating to have another way to think of yourself.”
“America is a basin into which so much has been poured and we don’t understand the half of it.”
That’s how Malcolm Gladwell (journalist and author of The Tipping Point and Outliers) and Elizabeth Alexander (the Yale professor and poet who delivered the poem at President Obama’s inauguration) reacted when Dr. Henry Louise Gates Jr presented their genetic history to them in the upcoming PBS documentary "Faces of America."[ READ MORE ]
