Dear Governor Cuomo: Sincerely, John Medeski

John Medeski. photo: wordloaf

  Sincerely, John By Laurel Dammann, Melissa Troutman, & Joshua Pribanic for Public Herald Listen to Podcast: John Medeski Interview “Artists Against Fracking” Summer 1969, half a million people gathered on a dairy farm in upstate New York [...]

Top Photos, Natural Gas, DEP: The 2012 Letter to Readers

The Public Herald's top photo for 2011, John Strong Bag in "These Economies." An iconic tribute to the occupation of Wall Street and economic uncertainty. © Joshua B. Pribanic

Dear PublicHerald.org readers: As we look ahead at this important year, we’d first like to thank all of our readers. The unfettered nature by which you share, invest in, and contribute to +Truth and +Creativity energizes our original [...]

Light the Daffodil Canon: Avey Tare Performs Live

Avey Tare performing live at Club Cafe in Pittsburgh. © Joshua B. Pribanic

Avey Tare (a.k.a. David Portner) released his solo debut, Down There, in 2010. It spoke in swamp to a cloud of critics that lamplighted it for intense, dark, heavy, experimental and soggy sound motion. I’d say the album blows [...]

VIDEO: Breaking Down the Elements of Human Creativity

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idea, conception, thought, notion, impression mean what exists in the mind as a representation (as of something comprehended) or as a formulation (as of a plan). idea may apply to a mental image or formulation of something seen or known or imagined, to a pure abstraction, or assumed or vaguely sensed . concept may apply to the idea formed by consideration of instances of a species or genus or, more broadly, to any idea of what a thing ought to be .