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Boom Chicago - An american style "improv" group that puts on a funny show and has a very informative online magazine.
Nieuw Amsterdam - A model of large scale city architecture. Satellite pictures of what the city of Amsterdam can look like in the year 2050.
Schmoelewicz Casting - Does castings for leading roles for actors and actresses for specials of various productions.
AKKA - Offers information on galleries, museum, art institutes and site specific exhibitions.
IDFA Festival - Provides information on the international documentary filmfestival Amsterdam.
SMART Project Space - Amsterdam Centre for Contemporary Art and Cinema. With online program and impressions of products.
Problem Solved! - Offers improvised comedy shows, weekly workshops and courses. Can also be booked for corporate events.
Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory. -- Albert Schweitzer Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few. -- George Bernard Shaw Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. -- Wernher Von Braun Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy. -- Groucho Marx "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Arts and Entertainment "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed. -- Christopher Morley Arts and Entertainment I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means. - Clarence Darrow, All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl. -- Charlie Chaplin Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous. -- Thornton Wilder "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n This is the fourth? -- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Arts and Entertainment I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it. -- Virginia Woolf Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture. -- Aldous Huxley "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Arts and Entertainment "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way. -- Vincent Van Gogh Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. - Gail Godwin The love we give away is the only love we keep. -- Elbert Hubbard Give me a museum and I'll fill it. -- Pablo Picasso Arts and Entertainment "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people. -- G. K. Chesterton Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them. -- H. L. Mencken Arts and Entertainment Facts are the enemy of truth. - Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth- knowing. - Henry Louis Mencken "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not, the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms with Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. - Napoleon Bonaparte Arts and Entertainment By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost a fortune "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Arts and Entertainment Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels. -- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it. -- Abraham Lincoln "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Arts and Entertainment "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) The cynics are right nine times out of ten. - Henry Louis Mencken My good intentions are completely lethal. -- Margaret Atwood Arts and Entertainment Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins. -- Sioux Indian Prayer Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital. -- Aaron Levenstein Here's to you and here's to me, and I hope we never disagree. But, if that should ever be, to HELL with you, here's to ME! -- Anonymous I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not. -- Fran Lebowitz "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Arts and Entertainment He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose -- Jim Elliott Give me a museum and I'll fill it. -- Pablo Picasso Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive. -- G. K. Chesterton Arts and Entertainment Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grie Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other. -- W. Somerset Maugham "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who, doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a machi Arts and Entertainment There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home. -- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. -- Mark Twain Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction. -- John Cage Arts and Entertainment Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true. -- Polish proverb To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest. -- Ghandi Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total ins Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust. -- Grover Cleveland Arts and Entertainment The cynics are right nine times out of ten. - Henry Louis Mencken Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. -- Aldous Huxley Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you. -- Satchel Paige Arts and Entertainment "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty. -- Thomas Jefferson The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper. -- Smith & Jones I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before. -- Rita Rudner Arts and Entertainment Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones. -- Phillip Brooks Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Arts and Entertainment The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness! -- Mark Russell What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is plurality, death is uniformity. -- Octavio Paz Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life. -- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Hark, the Herald Tribune sings, Advertising wondrous things! -- Tom Lehrer Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. -- James Baldwin Arts and Entertainment "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay. -- Bill Stern I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste. -- David Bissonette Arts and Entertainment Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches. - the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain. -- Carol Leifer In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Cricket is best described as organised loafing. -- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Arts and Entertainment Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a thing to be acheived. -- William Jennings Bryant Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd. -- William Congreve "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Arts and Entertainment
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