The Mission Creek festival announced today that comedian Cameron Esposito has been added to its 2015 lineup. Esposito will be performing a stand-up comedy show at the Englert Theatre on […]
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Mission Creek offering seminar about the art of food writing
Mission Creek Festival is offering a free, four-week community course on food culture and writing during the month of March entitled The Melting Pot….
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Mission Creek details Innovation Conference
The Mission Creek Festival announced today the lineup details for its 2015 Innovation Conference. This year’s conference is a two-day event held at the Hotel Vetro…
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Mission Creek adds Freddie Gibbs, The Sea and Cake, Real Estate and more to 2015 Lineup
The Mission Creek Festival released its second round of lineup details today, adding a slew of musical and literary artists to its 2015 lineup. New additions…
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Just Announced: Radiolab’s Jad Abumrad joins Mission Creek 2015 lineup
The Mission Creek Festival announced today that Jad Abumrad, creator and cohost of NPR’s Radiolab, has joined the festival’s 2015 lineup. …
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Isabella Rossellini cancels Mission Creek performance
The Mission Creek Festival announced today that actress and artist Isabella Rossellini has canceled her appearance at this year’s festival due to a personal conflict. According to festival organizers, Rossellini […]
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Mission Creek Festival announces ‘Circuit des Yeux’ as its next artist in residence
The Mission Creek Festival announced Friday that Chicago-based artist Haley Fohr, aka Circuit des Yeux, will be the next recipient of its artist residency…
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Interview: Ben Handler talks a bit about his La Blogotheque-inspired project
Afterhours Sessions is an Iowa City-based video production company led by Ben Handler. With nearly 70 stripped-down and intimate videos under their…
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Mission Creek Plan of Attack: Saturday and Sunday
Even though getting through today will require at minimum three disco naps (mostly just to mitigate the perpetual hangover I’ve had since Wednesday) it will be worth it. So, what […]
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Not your parents’ record store: An interview with Ben Swank and Chet Weise
There are plenty of record stores with considerable cultural cachet. Amoeba Music in Los Angeles has made a place for itself as a multi-media juggernaut…
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Interview: Matthew Israel on how the Art Genome Project is making the world of art more comprehensible
Matthew Israel, art historian, author and director of The Art Genome Project, will be giving the closing talk for the first-ever Mission Creek Tech + Innovation…
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Show review: Philip Glass and Oneohtrix Point Never
At the Englert Theatre during Oneohtrix (oh-nay-ah-tricks) Point Never’s performance, I was standing by the back wall, where apparently all the bass goes after passing through the volume of air in the theater. Though the sound system used was not that loud, if you stood where I stood, the bass was a whole body experience without obscuring the detail of the sounds in the higher register. I saw a dimly lit stage with one man illuminated by a laptop screen and dim blue lights. What I heard was dislocated ambience punctuated with synthetic thunderclaps.
