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Arts Beats and Eats 2011
Posted on 09/02/2011 by kriegs in
Now in its 14th year, Arts Beats and Eats Festival comes to Royal Oak over Labor Day Weekend (Sept. 2nd – 5th) for the 2nd year in a row, where they are expecting over 450,000 people throughout the weekend. AB&E features talented artists from all over with a juried fine arts show, local and national [...]
Detroit Native Defends Video Games as an Art Form on Fox News [Video]
Posted on 05/23/2011 by DJ Meph in
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On Saturday, May 21st, Brian Ambrozy (@primesuspect) of Icrontic was asked to go on Fox & Friends to debate Neal Asbury (@NealAsbury) on the merits of video games as a form of art, and defended public funding by the National Endowment of Arts for independent, non-profit video game studios. The “discussion” was everything typical of [...]
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