“Everything I do is pretty much the same as it was; we tour like we used to. But the venues are bigger. There’s more access to publicity, so the promoters know there’s a better chance of selling more tickets. The good thing has been that because we can play bigger venues, I can bring a bigger band.” But Spaulding still can’t get her songs on the radio.
Tag: 08.04.12
Don’t Blame Twitter; It’s Consumer Culture That Harms Criticism
Ron Charles: “We live in a consumer culture. Many feature writers are pressured to produce copy that their readers can ‘use’ — that is, use to buy things. Combine that with a thirst for clicks and views, and you’ve got the potential for abuse. (A freelancer for a women’s magazine told me recently that she’s been instructed to rave about the books she’s assigned, no matter what she really thinks. That’s not book criticism; it’s publicity. And it’s hardly ‘nice’ to the people who really matter: our readers.)”
Florence Waren, 95, Jewish Dancer Who Outwitted The Nazis While Dancing For Them In Paris
“Waren was a Jew in disguise, performing in a Nazi-held city where Jews lived under constant threat. She was a lawbreaker, hiding other Jews in her apartment, risking her own deportation to a concentration camp. And she was a smuggler, helping to supply guns to the French Resistance. ‘I think she was very scared,’ her son, Mark Waren, said in a telephone interview. ‘But I don’t think it was something she thought much about. It was simply what one did.'”
A Wild Sculpture Goes Viral – And Then Goes Missing
The sculpture in Fredericton, Canada – a creation which scares even the artist – had more than five million views and 600 comments on Reddit before it went missing.
Composer Of Movie Scores Gets The Silver And The Gold
“The new critics poll from the British Film Institute has declared Hitchcock’s Vertigo the best film ever, dislodging Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane after half a century. Film fans may argue about their relative merits but enthusiasts for the music of Bernard Herrmann may not care much either way: he wrote the scores for both.”