Entertainment & Arts


Urban square spontaneous: Mass-created fountain
Urban square spontaneous: Roman pillow fight
Moving streetcar nightclub
Crowdsourcing a music festival
The best city-wide creative social events are sourced by individuals
Austin looks to keep their 'Live Music Capital of the World' reputation
Austin music event brings in $95 million
Pecha Kucha Night - 'Speed art & chit chat' for creatives
'Crashed Ice' brings cultural identity to northern cities
Establishing a music scene 101
A treatise on building vibrant cultural quarters
Cultural Quarters: Necessary Conditions and Success Factors checklist
The four types of cultural quarters, progressively speaking
How do you know you're in a natural cultural district?
The impact of 'natural cultural districts'
Music scenes a sign of economic rise
'Live art' among living streets
The mother of Sunday street closings
The outdoor cinemas of Greece
Ani DiFranco and her church-turned-concert hall
Lessons on how to spark an indie rock scene
Celebrating the microbreweries
Beer - Going local
The preeminent event for art and technology
Film, music, writing, fine arts, fashion, photography, architecture, design...
Vienna, Austria - The origin of 'coffee culture'
Torpedo factory turned artist community
A national model for arts as economic development
The Rock & Roll Hotel
An ongoing list of programs protecting creatives from gentrification...
'America’s Best Places for Artists'
Living room theaters - you knew it was coming
Do you live in an 'Urbane Oasis' or 'McCulture Desert' when it comes to food?
Art gallery 2.0
Signs of Pittsburgh's creative renaissance - zombies
A slice of creative class nightlife
How artists can more formally help vitalize cities
ZeroOne - Where art and technology create compelling experiences
Add to your town's creative experiences
A community center for arts groups
Creative events for a creative venue
The best theater in America?
Looking for a model downtown music festival?
What's the neighborhood downtown version of the TV guide?
What is the mother of all art events?
What's a successful monthly downtown event?
Any good ideas for neighborhood downtown events?
Chicago developer's lifetime investment in artist community
When shopping meets 'pajama party' in the city
Measuring the economic benefits of arts on a community
When affordable art meets affordable nightlife...
Going out in pursuit of some trivial fun...
Making 'planned spontaneity' easier
Neighborhoods funding the new arts, not corporations
The value of artists in urban development
The return of theaters (and people) to downtowns
"Open DJ" night drawing crowds...
The merging of entertainment and retail
Banners bring some style
Alternative nightlife: Dodgeball
Placemaking from an artful perspective
Can artists bring vitality to an abandowned downtown?
Where's the heart of entertainment in Ann Arbor?
Athfest - "#1 Campus Scene that Rocks"
Every neighborhood should have its day
Walk-in theater
A third place for musicians (and wanna-be's)
Why 'ugly' is still valued by creatives...
Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance
Investing in artful neighborhoods
A must-have artistic partner
A 1-bedroom here for $425/mo.? In the Washington DC area?
Letting artists revitalize your downtown
CoolTown piazza 5: Movie theaters
CoolTown piazza 4: The eclectic nightclub
The Creating Cool conference: Part 2
In the news: Francis Ford Coppola's CoolTown
Investing in the CoolTown 'resort'
Why are resort towns so pedestrian-oriented, so cool?
Selling music - locally
Investing in a recreation entertainment town
Recreation in the city (naturally)
Exploring the city on wheels
Recreation in a CoolTown
Investing in Experience Towns
Steps to an Experience Town and beyond
The Experience Town
The Experience Economy
Even better than a main street
Does your local third place have its own CD?
Aloha Tower is Hawaii's CoolTown spot
A small town rocks like a CoolTown
Investing in A&E CoolTowns
The economy of an A&E CoolTown
It's all about the tenants
How do you build a great music scene?
How important is arts & entertainment in a CoolTown?
CoolTowns have lots of free entertainment venues