Andrzej Zielinski"Arancione Paper Shredder"The National Endowment for the Arts reports today that working artists are unemployed at twice the rate of professional workers. The NEA's study, titled "Artists in a Year of Recession: Impact on Jobs in 2008," indicates that the economic squeeze is forcing many artists to leave their profession altogether. (The Los Angeles Times has more. A PDF of the full study is here.)Three local artists have a little breathing room this week, though. Jaimie Warren
Back in grade school, Mom made me sign up for the summer reading program, and I dutifully finished all the books and checked them off the list. So what if the only one that left an impression was S.E. Hinton's teen-delinquent story That Was Then, This Is Now? So what if I went on to become a delinquent myself -- I was a literate delinquent, damn it!Because I love libraries, I'm a fan of the Big Read, which encourages everyone in a whole city to read the same book for a month. Sometimes this can
