“Ice cream? That’s right, as Christman notes that Sacramento-based Dimples Records is now devoting floor space to the dairy-based dessert. ‘I can make a 50% margin on ice cream, while on CDs I can lose two bucks,’ the magazine [Billboard] quotes Dimples’ co-owner Dilyn Radakovitz as saying.”
Tag: 12.14.08
More On The Dire Consequences Of File-Sharing
“Illegal downloading of films, TV programmes and music could mean the loss of 30,000 British jobs, according to a powerful alliance of retailers and rights-holders.”
2008 In Architecture (Not Quite A Top-10 List)
“By year’s end, as the government declared a recession, the boom years came to a jarring halt and cities around the nation, including Chicago, worried that their skylines would be frozen in place,” Blair Kamin writes. “These were among the year’s notable events….”
Shakespeare Santa Cruz Has 1 Week To Save Its Own Life
“Shakespeare Santa Cruz … is now itself facing a dilemma worthy of Shakespeare. After 27 years it has come to this: Either the SSC board raises $300,000 by Monday, Dec. 22, or the 2009 summer season will be shelved. And if that happens, the company will likely face ‘the most unkindest cut of all,’ to quote Marc Antony in ‘Julius Caesar’: extinction.”
Did The Brits Raise Enough Money To Keep Titian?
The National Gallery of Scotland and London’s National Gallery are poised to reveal whether Titian’s Diana and Actaeon has been saved for the nation.
The 15-Year-Old Photographer And Her Online Art Career
“On Flickr, nobody cares if White thinks algebra is beneath her. They’re following her art career, and it’s flourishing. Her name passes like a hot rumor, and her work is the fact that backs the rumor up.”
Conceptual Artist George Brecht, 82
A core member of Fluxus, the loosely affiliated international group of playful Conceptual artists that emerged in the early 1960s, Brecht died on Dec. 5 in Cologne, Germany.
NEA: Demand For Plays Declining In America
“High ticket prices do not appear to be the primary factor, according to the report by the National Endowment for the Arts that is being released on Monday. Instead the Cassandras who have been fretting over the future of Americans’ dramatic appetites seem to have a point; there are more straight plays than demand for them.”
Ailing California Orchestra Cancels Season
“The arts economy strikes again: Because of lagging ticket sales as well as a rapid decline in individual and corporate donations, the Santa Clarita Symphony is canceling its 2009 season.”
KC Symphony Hit By Economy And Competition
Ticket sales for the Kansas City Symphony’s holiday program are off by 30%. And it’s not just the tight economy that’s hurting them. “The other [factor] is something new to Kansas City during the holiday season: the Radio City Christmas Spectacular.”