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Tuesday December 1, 2009 was the Arts Alliance's first annual 'Convergence', a half-day seminar for local artists and arts organizations. This event unveiled the new a3arts.org website, a web portal for local artists and arts events. Discussions also covered the conversion of commercial space into galleries and performance space, as well as an overview of the value of the 'creative economy.'

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Stephen King's hefty new novel Under the Dome imagines an ordinary autumn day in a small New England town, suddenly stricken with death and unspeakable terror. An invisible dome descends over the town of Chester's Mill, Maine, and no one is getting in or out.

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So-called family movies in recent memory have a soul-searching, existensial bent to them. WALL-E and Where the Wild Things Are demand a bit of self-examination from the viewer. We get a whole lot more out of these films than we expect. I'm not sure it's always good for children to be confronted with ideas of death, disaster, and an uncertain future. It may not be good for adults, either.

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Dear David Mamet,

Congratulations on another great year of all that you do. You have another play coming up the pipeline, and I just wanted to talk to you about a few items.

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Why anyone would participate in a thing called Black Friday is completely beyond me. It sounds apocalyptic. It sounds like a bomb going off in a big box store. As your Civic Ethicist, I am recommending you stay home with your family this Friday after Thanksgiving.

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There is traditional high-seas piracy that we still hear about from time to time, which is vaguely political, and involves renegades, terrorists really, who rob, loot, shoot, and sink their victims in the middle of the oceans. In boundary waters, there will be anarchy.