Tommy Karr

Category: Social

  • Alabama Crimson Tide Fan’s Offensive Gay Bashing T-Shirt

    UPDATE: 4:24pm 1/4/12 Mr. Ivey replied to my email with the following: Mr. Adkins, I completely understand what you are saying. The site has been taken down. No shirts were ever produced and it was a misguided attempt at “getting back” at LSU fans for a shirt they created (using the same word) a couple…

  • GetUp! Australia’s Amazing Ad for Marriage Equality

    The folks at GetUp! Action for Australia, an independent movement to build a progressive Australia and bring participation back into their democracy, have created this ad in the hopes that it inspires more understanding in people who would otherwise deny the right of marriage to same-sex couples. You can sign their petition HERE so hopefully…

  • Addie to the Rescue: Raising Awareness of Copyright Theft

    Addie Brownlee (Disclaimer: she’s a dear friend but I love and support her art regardless) is featured in a new PSA (see below) produced in partnership with MTV and carried out by the nonprofit National Crime Prevention Council, the folks who gave us McGruff the Crime Dog. The PSA is very revealing.  It puts to mind…

  • VIDEO: The History of English in 10 Minutes

    Saw this on The Awesomer and loved it. I’m a nerd for etymology (not to be confused with entomology (the scientific study of insects) or entenmology (the non-scientific study of cakes).

  • When Teachers Fail to Teach Tolerance

    UPDATE (9:45pm): According to the HRC Ms. Knox also uses Twitter to spew her vitriol.  According to their report, “New Jersey has the nation’s toughest anti-bullying law – Viki Knox has proven herself incapable of carrying out the law within her school.”  Good point!  This woman cannot be trusted to serve her students without bias…

  • Making a Musical in New Orleans

    After my trip home to Tennessee I flew down to New Orleans to see Ren make his stage debut in a new musical at the Allways Lounge and Theatre. Sidenote: The plane was full of Red Hat Ladies, all of whom were very nice and very brightly adorned, en route to New Orleans for what…

  • Answers to the Young Patrons Theatre Trivia Quiz

    As promised, albeit late, here is a link to the answers from TDF’s Young Patrons Trivia Night at Hurley’s. From TDF Stages: Answers to Our Theatre Trivia Quiz. To read more about the event visit this previous blog post. And if you are interested in learning more about the Young Patrons Committee at TDF click here…

  • TDF’s Young Patrons Theatre Trivia Night at Hurley’s

    Marie Osmond, Elaine Paige, Sandy Duncan, and Betty White have all played the female lead in what classic 1950’s musical? This was just a taste of the trivia competition that so engrossed nearly 40 players last night at Hurley’s for the inaugural event of the Young Patrons Committee (YPC) at Theatre Development Fund. The recently formed…

  • How Twitter (and the Internet) is Changing How We Consider Theatre

    Patrick Healy recently wrote in The New York Times about Julie Taymor breaking her silence on Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, Broadway’s most expensive (and probably most questioned) musical in history. In his article he states that she “criticized her former producers on Saturday afternoon for relying on audience focus groups and said that the…

  • Broadway Bares and Marriage Equality

    This morning I called my State Senator and spoke to his aide asking her to let the Senator know that I was in full support of marriage equality and that I hoped the Senator was as well.  The kind woman confirmed that he was in full support of the measure and that he appreciated my…