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Chicago game developers try for Kickstarter boost
For RedEyeLarry Griffin broke all kinds of unwritten rules about creating a video game development studio when he founded Cosmosaur. The recent Columbia College graduate and three former classmates started the company with almost no money or industry connections....Tags: Gaming Industry, Politics, Ghouls and Zombies (supernatural entities), Colleges and Universities, Charity
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Big Daddy on Kickstarter for retro Broadway-Hollywood comeback
One of the great left-field surprises of the 1980s pop music scene came with the arrival of Big Daddy, a whimsical band that reimagined hits of the day as they might have sounded had they been recorded in the 1950s. The conceit was that the group’s...
Tags: Charity, Rock and Roll (genre), Music, Paul Simon, Elvis Costello
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Local filmmaker seeks funds Sept. 11 documentary
Daily American Staff WriterTerry Butler was working at the Stoystown Auto Wreckers salvage yard along Route 30 when the plane went down. "I could tell it was flying too low and too fast for being in these mountains," the Somerset resident said, recalling the events of Sept. 11,...Tags: Documentary (genre), September 11, 2001 Attacks, Bristol (Hartford, Connecticut), ESPN (tv network), PBS (tv network)
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Chicago filmmaker spent 8 years on new documentary 'Band of Sisters'
"You didn't really have (to) think much for yourself," a nun says of her early years, in the new documentary "Band of Sisters," which has its world premiere at the Siskel Film Center this week. "All that went unchanged for years and years and years...
Tags: Politics, Documentary (genre), Music Box Theatre, Lobbying, Larry Cohen
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One Straw Farm launches Kickstarter campaign to build apps
Imagine, with a few finger flicks on a smartphone app, you can learn whether you'll be getting zucchini or tomatoes, strawberries or potatoes, from a Maryland farm each week, then browse for home-spun recipes and connect with other like-minded consumers....Tags: Politics, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Computer Hardware, Apple iPhone, Farms
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Penny Arcade and Steam turn to crowdsourcing
"The future belongs to crowds." - Don DeLillo, Mao II
If the 20th century version of video game marketing is attempting to observe what customers wanted, than the 21st has become a time about flat-out asking them.
Steam, Valve's online gaming store and...Tags: Gaming Industry, Marketing, Online Advertising, Human Interest, Gaming
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Musical Written By Yale Grad Who Died In Crash Headed To NYC Festival
The Hartford Courant"Independents," a folk rock musical written by Marina Keegan, the 22-year-old journalist-playwright who died Saturday in a car accident on Cape Cod days after graduating magna cum laude at Yale, may have a life in the theater. Money is being raised...Tags: New York City, Festive Events, Arts and Culture, Music Theater, Music
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Counter Intelligence: Ración is Basque country
Los Angeles Times Restaurant CriticSan Sebastian's old town may be the most food-intensive neighborhood in the world, with street after street of pintxos bars and taverns and roaring restaurants, and hundreds of counters heaped with shellfish, hams and roasted meat — the answer to...Tags: New York City, Foods and Beverages, Michelin Group, Spain, Bars and Clubs
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Q & A: A 'forgotten' battle of the Iraq war
Konrad Ludwig grew up in La Cañada Flintridge and as a teenager, enlisted in the Army. Ludwig saw combat during the American troop surge in a hotly contested part of Baghdad known as Sadr City. In August, Ludwig expects to publish his combat memoir,...
Tags: International Military Interventions, Iraq War (2003-2011), Wars and Interventions, Baghdad (Iraq), Iraq
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Indie films find financial backers online through Kickstarter
24 FramesIncreasingly, websites such as Kickstarter and its chief rival, Indiegogo, are helping ultra-low-budget productions make their way into movie theaters. Looking to raise money to finance a movie's production or distribution, a filmmaker will take his or...
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