“Few products are so underpriced that an entire subsidiary industry exists to take advantage of the discrepancy. Yet concerts and sporting events consistently price their tickets low enough that street scalpers risk jail time to hawk marked-up tickets, and StubHub makes hundreds of millions a year in revenue.”
Tag: 06.04.13
What Happened To Innovation In The Theatre?
“Business is obsessed with innovation, with change, with finding the Next Big Thing. Most of the books I listed above are about encouraging creative disruption in your organization, trying new business models to sell your products. Theatre? Not so much.”
Detroit’s Masonic Temple Rescued By Former White Stripes Front Man
“The anonymous benefactor who recently paid the entire $142,000 balance in taxes to prevent Detroit’s Masonic Temple from falling into foreclosure was revealed Tuesday to be musician Jack White, who played there as a solo artist and with his former band, the White Stripes.”
Backstage At The New Mariinsky 2
“The new Mariinsky Theatre is a site of pilgrimage in St. Petersburg. Ballet and opera enthusiasts are coming in droves to witness first-hand the modern productions and admire the amber onyx encasing the concert hall. But what is going on behind the scenes? We went there to find out.”
Organ Failure: The Great Instruments Of Paris Are Decaying
The French capital has long been a great center for organ music. Just over half of Paris’s 234 organs, including a number of important historic instruments, are the responsibility of the city council – whose entire maintenance budget of €250,000 is enough for the upkeep of about 11 of them.
Hollywood Blockbuster Director Is ‘Disintegrating’ In Prison
“John McTiernan, the director and producer of Predator, Die Hard, The Hunt For Red October and Last Action Hero, is now federal penitentiary prisoner 43029-11,” serving time for perjury. It’s a relatively comfortable minimum-security facility, but McTiernan’s wife says he’s “disintegrating in front of my eyes”.
Academy Of Arts & Sciences Defends Its Leader
“Her official résumé on file with the academy does not contain the inaccurate information. President Berlowitz takes full responsibility for the error, and the academy is working to correct the information with relevant funding agencies.”
From 1928: A Plan To Promote Reading More Books
“One of their main objects was to make books better known to the public. They realised that this must be done scientifically and methodically. The best means of doing it was to have classified lists of their customers, or potential customers, and to provide them with prospectuses of the class of books in which they had declared themselves to be interested.”
Why Don’t Britain’s Economic Elite Give To The Arts?
“The former Arts Council chairman, Dame Liz Forgan, has criticised Britain’s wealthy elite, accusing them of failing to contribute sufficiently to the arts.”
EBook Market Will Top Print By 2017
“PricewaterhouseCoopers estimates that trade (consumer, not educational or academic) ebooks will drive $8.2 billion in sales by 2017 — surpassing projected print book sales, which it thinks will shrink by more than half during that period.”