Articles by Robin Roemer
An Interview with Punchdrunk Directors Sir Felix Barrett and Maxine Doyle
It’s been called the world’s best immersive theatre company. Founded back in 2000, Punchdrunk is the group of geniuses behind the long-running interactive experience Sleep No More , in which visitors don a mask and spend hours wandering a mysterious warehouse (and drink a cocktail or two). I chatted with the two directors. Enjoy. NEIL PATRICK HARRIS: Thank you for both taking the time for this interview, and for continuing to be awesome.
Op-Ed: VTA Should Rethink Those 'Spaced Out' Bus Stops | San Jose Inside
On New Year’s Eve, the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) released a video about its new bus stop-canceling project titled “Our Bus Stops Are Getting Spaced Out—Less Stops, More Go!” The way the video tells it, pesky transit riders—a fictitious elderly woman named Mrs. Roberts in particular—have forced VTA to put bus stops close to where riders live or need to go. Over time, the clip goes on to say, this led to convenient bus stops on every block.
Opinion: A vision for a more vibrant North San Jose community Original
Breaking News CZU Lightning Complex Fire fully contained North San Jose is riddled with big empty plots lying in wait, dreaming big of innovative companies and walkable neighborhoods. Yet, despite a statewide housing crisis and (pre-COVID-19) the longest economic boom in half a century, these plots have seen little action in the last four years.
Living in Color: What’s Funny About Me
Comedy is craft and Davidson is craftsman in this engrossing memoir, cowritten with journalist Teicholz. Davidson chronicles his neglect and abandonment as a toddler; his adoption by a loving family; his hard-won successes performing stand-up in New York, California, and Washington, DC; and, finally, his role on In Living Color (1990–95), Keenen Ivory Wayans’s pioneering sketch show, one of the first to feature a predominantly black cast.
Simple Cake: All You Need To Keep Your Friends and Family in Cake
The sentence, “10 cakes. 15 toppings. 30-cake-worthy moments,” forms the premise of this strikingly minimalist cookbook that is both a throwback and an update, a work that nods knowingly at the modest skills and outsized ambitions of many modern home bakers. First-time author Williams (founder of the eponymous line of bakewear) relates her preference for functionality over extravagance, for family-friendly go-tos that embrace nostalgia and reject complexity.
Inside a Mexico Children's Shelter Helping Asylum Seekers
At Instituto Madre Asunta, a shelter in Tijuana near the border for women and children, the need seems endless: shoes, socks, school supplies. Refugees line up in the hundreds to wait for food. “I saw a mother yell that she had received some chicken and how excited she was about that. You could see on their faces how desperate they are for a warm meal,” says Mari Rivera, an LA-based producer.
We talked to Gaby Dunn and Allison Raskin about mental health maintenance in the internet age
Over the past few years, pals and creative partners Gaby Dunn and Allison Raskin have attracted a huge online following. After writing, directing, and appearing in some of BuzzFeed’s greatest videos, the two left the platform to start their own YouTube show, Just Between Us. Raskin and Dunn dish out funny advice, perform in comedy sketches, and share their experiences with sexuality, mental health, and body confidence in their weekly videos.
'BoJack Horseman' Illustrator Lisa Hanawalt Shows Us Her Studio: BUST Interview
Artist and writer Lisa Hanawalt has been wowing readers with her irreverent illustrated musings since her debut book, My Dirty Dumb Eyes, made a splash in 2013. But even many of her devoted fans don’t know that this 33-year-old kickass polymath is also the person who created the entire look of BoJack Horseman—the popular animated Netflix series about a jaded horse who used to be a sitcom star.
Beyond the positive-negative paradigm of Latino/Latina news-media representations: DREAM Act exemplars, stereotypical selection, and American Otherness
News-media research on coverage of Latino/Latinas has historically focused on negative stereotyping, particularly as threatening, criminal, lazy, or a burden on society. The 2010–2012 newspaper coverage of a proposed immigration policy commonly referred to as the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act provides a distinctive case study, one that addresses a subgroup of Latino/Latinas that inherently defies traditional stereotypes.
Altmetrics, Bibliometrics
In September 2010, Jason Priem, a doctoral student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Information and Library Science, was interested in promoting the value of a set of metrics that could describe relationships between the social aspects of the web and the spread of scholarship online.
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