“Bookstores, including some of the most prominent around the country, have begun selling tickets or requiring a book purchase of customers who attend author readings and signings, a practice once considered unthinkable.”
Tag: 06.22.11
Would Buying Hulu Really Be A Good Idea?
The commercial television streaming website “has apparently been approached by a buyer, rumoured to be Yahoo! The prospect … brings reminders of YouTube’s purchase by Google in 2006. YouTube has been something of a money pit for Google: it has yet to announce it has turned a profit. Hulu isn’t a money pit at all. It’s a snake pit.”
Toronto’s Four Seasons Centre: What A Difference A Hall Makes
The Canadian Opera Company and the National Ballet of Canada “agree that the new home by architect Jack Diamond has boosted performances to a new level, and helped to draw audiences not just from the Toronto area, but beyond.”
Christoph Niemann Would Rather Be An Illustrator Than A Museum Artist
“I get a much bigger kick out of having my image seen like a million times for like 20 seconds and then it ends up in a trash bin, rather than having my image over somebody’s sofa for 20 years.”
‘Hostility’ And ‘Pent-Up Fury’: Katie Roiphe Overthinks Go The F*** To Sleep
“Somewhere in the space between the book’s lush pictures and obscene words lies a kind of existential despair that is very particularly ours. … The portrait is of a very ordinary family life, but what is revealing, what may have lead to all the ecstatic blurbs, … is its Sartre-like bleakness and claustrophobia.”
The Problem With Defining “Stardom” In Jazz
“The very notion of jazz stardom is problematic, because it’s based more on artistic merit and creative influence than actual ticket sales. Real legends or trailblazers in the jazz scene, and 700 or 800 tickets is a really good show for them.”
A. Whitney Ellsworth, First Publisher Of New York Review, Dead At 75
“Mr. Ellsworth helped get The New York Review of Books up and running as its first publisher and also served in the mid-1970s as chairman of Amnesty International USA.”
New York City Opera Faces Unions Over Coming Season
“The troubled New York City Opera let some details about its next season dribble out on Tuesday during a meeting with its unions, which confronted the company’s leader, George Steel, with symbolic votes of no confidence in his leadership.”
Stieg Larsson’s Partner And Her Viking Curse
In her new memoir of life with the author of the Millennium novels, Eva Gabrielsson gives “a description of an elaborate Viking curse she delivered on New Year’s Eve 2004 against all her and Larsson’s enemies.”
Queensland Ballet’s Artistic Director Steps Down
“The shake-up of Brisbane’s arts scene has continued with yesterday’s resignation of long-term Queensland Ballet artistic director Francois Klaus. Mr Klaus has been with the state company for more than a decade and has been recognised as a creative and innovative leader.”