Man On Wire, a movie about Philippe Petit, who walked a tightrope between the World Trade Center towers in 1974, won this year's Sundance Film Festival award for best documentary. We have tickets for a preview screening of the movie to be held August 5, at the Lagoon Theatre. Come in and get them while … Continue reading Man on Wire
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Attention Span
Minnesota Public Radio's Midmorning show is talking with Maggie Jackson, author of Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age. She worries that computers and cell phones and multitasking are making us unable to concentrate on... um... right, the world around us. For the record, Maggie Jackson was in our store in June. … Continue reading Attention Span
Is This the Hottest Artist in the World?
The identity of the graffiti artist known only as Banksy has long been a mystery. Even as his art, which appears unexpectedly overnight, has become more and more collectible and valued.Now the Mail on Sunday newspaper claims that Banksy is in fact Robin Gunningham, whom the British media constantly refer to as a "nice middle-class … Continue reading Is This the Hottest Artist in the World?
Musings from Magers and Quinn 