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...these objects] were created for is not present,” says Reyes. “You see a document that is a record of that performance.” One of the videos in the series, entitled “Instant Rock Star,” features several prop guitars of varying shapes and sizes which become active pieces of art when Reyes invites passersby to use them and perform to a song of their choosing. Each performance concludes with the smashing of the guitar.“They are meant to be destroyed,” Reyes says...
...everyone who wants to build along the oceanfront, would no longer be able to protect it from ugly McMansions and ensure public beach access. And developers could build homes on dangerously steep slopes or plop factories into residential neighborhoods. More imaginatively, the nonpartisan California Budget Project argues that because Prop 90 applies to consumer-protection laws, if the state restricted ATM fees, it would have to compensate banks for the revenue they would lose because of the capped charges...
Many of the claims are "hysterical gibberish," maintains Prop 90 spokesman Kevin Spillane, noting that compensation would be required only for "substantial" damage to property values. The initiative exempts health and safety regulations, he points out, and current zoning laws would still apply, protecting beaches and steep slopes, for instance. As for future laws, he argues, "if you own a piece of property that's zoned one way, then it is unfair for the government to change the rules." While California's initiative affects only future government actions, Washington's Initiative 933 allows landowners to file retroactive claims for changes...
...give it forced perspective, a trick that is also being used on the Mainstage in “The Marriage of Bette and Boo.” The set becomes increasingly littered with an assortment of objects that I would venture to guess comprise one of the more unusual prop lists in Ex history—including bottles for cleaning supplies, shoes, lobsters, a baby carriage, and a cabbage, adding to the general sense of hysteria. Hysterical is a good general descriptor for “Dinner.” At root, the play is 90 minutes of people inflicting...
...initiative that would impose a tax on oil companies for drilling in California - and use the $4 billion raised over 10 years to fund the development of "cleaner" and "cheaper" energy. "Proposition 87 is 100% a subsidy," says Cleantech blogger and energy investor Neal Dikeman, who is opposed to Prop. 87's call for the creation of a new state bureaucracy spending $4 billion on "an undefined bunch of renewable programs," and prefers that the money come from California's General Fund or by raising taxes. Khosla maintains that Prop. 87 is a "limited, one-time extraction fee" that levels...