ORAL HISTORY PROJECT COMES TO SANTA MONICA.Byline: - Staff and Wire Services Southern Californians are invited to participate in what could be the largest oral history project of America since the Great Depression. That project is StoryCorps. Starting Monday and continuing through Feb. 5, the StoryCorps MobileBooth - a state-of-the-art recording studio on wheels - stops into Santa Monica's Third Street Promenade The Third Street Promenade is a pedestrian street in Santa Monica, California, United States. It is considered one of the premier shopping destinations in West Los Angeles and frequently draws crowds from all over Los Angeles County. to collect the everyday stories of ordinary people. Reservations are required for the 40-minute sessions, during which a trained facilitator guides participants through the process of interviewing family or friends about their lives. At the end of the recording session, participants are given a copy on CD, as well as the option of having their interview become part of the StoryCorps archive at the American Folklife Center The American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress was created by Congress in 1976 "to preserve and present American Folklife" (see Public Law 94-201 [1]). The Center incorporates the Archive of Folk Culture, which was established at the Library in 1928 as a at the Library of Congress. In addition, selections of local stories could air on KCRW KCRW Kansas City Roller Warriors (women's roller derby league; Kansas City, Missouri) 89.9 FM, one of the event's sponsors, which also plans on creating special programs around the project. You'll find the StoryCorps MobileBooth on the corner of Wilshire Boulevard Wilshire Boulevard is one of the principal east-west arterial roads in Los Angeles, California, United States. It was named for H. Gaylord Wilshire (1861-1927), an Ohio native who made and lost fortunes in real estate, farming, and gold mining. and Third Street. Information: (800) 850-4406 or www.storycorps.net. 'FOUNTAIN' ATTACKED: A 76-year-old performance artist was arrested after attacking Marcel Duchamp's ``Fountain'' - a porcelain urinal urinal /uri·nal/ (u?ri-n'l) a receptacle for urine. u·ri·nal n. A vessel into which urine is passed. - with a hammer, police said. Duchamp's 1917 piece - an ordinary white, porcelain urinal that's been called one of the most influential works of modern art - was slightly chipped in the attack at the Pompidou Center in Paris, the museum said Thursday. It was removed from the exhibit for repair. The suspect, a Provence resident whose identity was not released, already vandalized the work in 1993 - urinating into the piece when it was on display in Nimes, in southern France Southern France (or the South of France), colloquially known as Le Midi, is a loosely defined geographical area consisting of the regions of France that border the Atlantic Ocean south of the Gironde, Spain, the Mediterranean Sea, Italy, and Switzerland south of the , police said. During questioning, the man claimed his hammer attack on Wednesday was a work of performance art that might have pleased Dada artists. The early-20th-century avant-garde movement was the focus of the exhibit that ends Monday, police said. A 2004 poll of 500 arts figures ranked ``Fountain'' as the most influential work of modern art - ahead of Pablo Picasso's ``Les Demoiselles d'Avignon Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (The Young Ladies of Avignon in English) is a celebrated painting by Pablo Picasso that depicts five prostitutes in a brothel, in the Avignon Street of Barcelona. Picasso painted it in France, and completed it in the summer of 1907. ,'' Andy Warhol's screen prints of Marilyn Monroe and ``Guernica,'' Picasso's depiction of war's devastation. ``Fountain'' is valued at an estimated $3.6 million. |
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