Bell’s Big Busking Bust

Busking just isn’t what it used to be. These days, commuters joined at the ear canal to their cell phones, PDAs, and iPods go rushing right past street musicians without so much as a sideways glance or a thought of tossing a buck into the open case. But surely, if the busker standing outside your local subway station was superstar violinist Joshua Bell, things would be different, right? Um, actually, as it turns out… no.