“About a dozen pressing plants have sprouted up in the United States, along with the few that survived from the first vinyl era, and they say business is so brisk that they are working to capacity.”
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Surprise (Subscription) Gift Packages Making Snail Mail Cool
“Old-timey physical boxes that you can touch — that’s totally a contrast to a lot of what’s out there, but I think we’re going through this period of correction where people realize there are experiences in the tangible world that are more powerful than any digital interaction.”
In The Era Of Remixing, Fans Make Series Their Own
“Bootleg efforts are requiring producers of original content to grapple with what this means for their art form and how it affects their relationship with their fans.”
If Data Is Our Currency, What Will We Pay For Privacy?
“That’s what most people believe about their email, for instance — sure, the email provider could read it, but probably nobody is going to bother. We assume that we will hide in the crowd, protected by its very size.”
Tsiskaridze Says He’s Being ‘Hounded Out’ Of The Bolshoi
“Nikolai Tsiskaridze, who has been told he must leave at the end of the month, had been at odds with Bolshoi director Anatoly Iksanov even before the January 17 attack that stunned Russians with its brutality and left Sergei Filin with severe burns to his face and eyes.”
Brazil Subsidizes The Heck Out Of The Arts – And Everyone Notices
“The government is planning to soon launch a program that will give every worker in the country 50 reais ($25, or almost 10% of the monthly minimum wage) that they can spend exclusively on cultural activities, with the hope that it will allow average Brazilians to spend more time at museums, in the cinema, or at a live dance performance.”