Author: Doug Dangler

Time To See a Starry Night

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Starry Night participant

Starry Night participant

Part 2 of the double header this week on Craft: My interview with Amy Raubenolt.

On Sunday, April 6 from 2-6pm, Westerville South High School will host Starry Night, which its organizers, Amy Raubenolt and Michael Wander, describe as a multi-disciplinary festival for elementary and middle school families, combining art science and engineering to encourage innovation creativity and critical thinking.

Check out my Columbus Underground article on the event and my audio interview with Amy.

In which I successfully resist larceny

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Years ago, I interviewed John Green, whose excellent novel The Fault in Our Stars has been made into the proverbial “Major Motion Picture.” Yesterday, I successfully resisted the urge to steal the signed copy of TFIOS that I borrowed from my local library.

Image of the Fault in Our Stars

Image of the Fault in Our Stars and John Green’s signature

If you haven’t read the book, do it. And if you haven’t watched John Green and his brother Hank on YouTube as the Vlog Brothers, give that a try as well. Sadly, I’m most fond of the rapid jokes posts.

Richard Shindell: The International Monetary Fund is a great basis for a song

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Richard Shindell

Richard Shindell

“Living in Argentina, I’ve learned a lot about how the world works. You live in The States and a dollar’s a dollar,” says Richard Shindell. That’s not the case in other countries, where “the IMF, Moody’s and what they say about a country is important information for normal people.”

Shindell’s life and songwriting craft made up a large part of our discussion, but we also talked about what happens when he decides to change on the fly how a song is played on stage. Hint: it’s sometimes stressful for his band mates.

Shindell will bring his perceptive and conscious songwriting to Six String Concerts on April 4 and is part one of this week’s Craft Double Header on WCBE.

First person to comment gets a free Richard Shindell CD.

 

 

Carl Hoffman talks cannibals and what gifts to bring your children from your travels

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Carl Hoffman 's book cover

Travel writer Carl Hoffman will be at Thurber House on March 31 to discuss his new book Savage Harvest: A Tale of Cannibals, Colonialism, and Michael Rockefeller’s Tragic Quest for Primitive Art.  We talked about how Hoffman followed up on his journalistic hunches to unravel this fascinating tale.

Creative Commons’ Cable Green Opens Up about Content

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Cable-GreenCable Green received his doctorate in educational psychology from Ohio State and started its first online doctoral program. He is now the Director of Global Learning at Creative Commons, a nonprofit for open access. He will deliver the keynote address at Ohio State University’s Innovate 2014 conference.

We discussed what Creative Commons does and what benefits it has for education.

Craft March 22 Humor Special

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What’s REALLY March Madness? WCBE giving me a full hour on March 22 at 3 pm (daytime, even) to delve into the nature of humor and humor writing with an array of great writers:

Cleveland native Kelsey Kinney hits town with Second City Improv

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Image of Second City touring cast in bed

Witness the triumphant return of Ohio native Kelsey Kinney with the Happily Ever Laughter tour with Chicago’s Second City on March 21 and 22. In addition to revisiting classic sketches from the 54-year history of Second City, Kelsey and the rest of the cast will engage in improvisation with the audience, during which she will guarantee that they’ll make comedy gold happen right before your eyes.“

How to plan a murder

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JA Jance will be in Columbus with the Thurber House on March 10. We talked about how she got started, why she doesn’t like the word “prolific,” and why you shouldn’t plan even fictional murders in restaurants.

Doug Dangler with JA Jance's book "Moving Target"

JA Jance discusses writing and the appropriate place to plan a murder (it’s not a restaurant).