St. Louis, Pittsburgh and especially Cleveland are all reversing a longstanding outflow of under-35-year-olds. “And as a mountain of ‘Viva Detroit!’ news stories have made clear, Motor City is now the official cool-kids destination, adding thousands of young artists, entrepreneurs and urban farmers even as its general population evaporates.” The real estate, after all, is far cheaper than in Brooklyn and Seattle.
Tag: 05.12.12
The Art Market’s Irrational Exuberance
“No one can doubt that those who run after art operate as if they were living on a different planet. This outburst of hubristic buying occurred less than a week after Sotheby’s registered its highest score ever, $330 million, in a sale of Impressionist and modern art.”
Is Student Debt The Next Bubble?
“With more than $1 trillion in student loans outstanding in this country, crippling debt is no longer confined to dropouts from for-profit colleges or graduate students who owe on many years of education, some of the overextended debtors in years past. Now nearly everyone pursuing a bachelor’s degree is borrowing.”
Snorting Vitamin B And Getting High On Rock Candy – What Onscreen “Drugs” Actually Are
“Movie sets are drug-free environments, at least in theory. Even if an actor is playing a tie-dye-wearing burnout whose best friend is a honey-bear bong, puffing the real thing is strictly verboten.”
Joyce Redman, Exuberant Tom Jones Eating Scene Actress, 96
“For better and worse, Ms. Redman’s fieriness as an actress was most memorably on display in her portrayal in Tom Jones of the promiscuous Mrs. Waters, with whom Tom locks eyes in lusty communion as they devour one course after another in a crescendo of sexual anticipation. Haskel Frankel described it in The Times in 1981 as ‘one of the funniest, most sensual scenes ever put on film without removing one stitch of clothing.'”
Three Reasons Newspaper Paywalls Simply Won’t Work (Not Even At The New York Times)
“It makes more sense to try and figure out how to take advantage of the Web in order to provide something that the current market is likely to value, instead of focusing on how to squeeze as much as possible out of a declining market. What is The Huffington Post doing right, or Buzzfeed, or Politico, or The Atlantic? Why don’t they need paywalls? Coming up with creative answers to those questions is likely to play a much larger role in the survival of traditional media entities than a paywall.”
Authors Who Produce A Book A Year? Slackers, Say Audiences – And Publishers
Mystery and thriller writers used to produce a book a year – but that’s not enough in the e-book age. “‘It used to be that once a year was a big deal,’ said Lisa Scottoline, a best-selling author of thrillers. ‘You could saturate the market. But today the culture is a great big hungry maw, and you have to feed it.'”
Angelica Garnett, 93, Bloomsbury Survivor and Chronicler
“Published in 1985, her memoir, Deceived With Kindness: A Bloomsbury Childhood, describes the luminous orbit around Ms. Garnett’s mother, the painter Vanessa Bell, a sister of Virginia Woolf. It was a self-reflexive, self-congratulatory milieu in which art was all, sex was the coin of the realm and the only real transgression was the unpardonable sin of being ordinary.”