U.S. and Canadian theaters this weekend set a record for yearly ticket sales, taking in an estimated $9.59 billion.
Tag: 12.30.07
New Tools Let Anyone Start Radio Show
“You can create a show within five minutes and be on the air within 15 minutes.”
Recording Industry Contends Purchased CD Copied To Your Computer Is Theft
“The RIAA’s legal crusade against its customers is a classic example of an old media company clinging to a business model that has collapsed. Four years of a failed strategy has only “created a whole market of people who specifically look to buy independent goods so as not to deal with the big record companies.”
Curing Your Arts Addiction
Feeling overwhelmed by all the arts and culture in your life? (Okay, us neither. But let’s say you were…) Here’s an easy ten-step arts detox program that also serves as a good guide to winnowing the cultural wheat from the chaff.
Granta At 100
“Launched in 1979 under the inspired ‘lunacy’ of Bill Buford, Granta magazine became the home of vital new writing and launched the careers of some of our greatest novelists.” Now the quarterly is celebrating 100 issues, and its rise from student publication to influential literary journal.
Expensive Start To A Big Year For Liverpool
“On the eve of Liverpool’s year in the spotlight as European Capital of Culture 2008, the city has run up a £20m debt… The deficit is so large – almost as big as the entire £22m budget for arts projects for the year – that Liverpool council has asked the government to bail it out.”
Jacksonville Lockout Drags On
It’s been nearly two months since the Jacksonville Symphony management locked out its musicians, and no progress has been made toward a settlement. More worrying, the staredown will likely make it difficult for the JSO to attract new donors and supporters even once the musicians return. And no one seems to agree on what the right recipe for fiscal stability includes.
Changing Hollywood’s View Of Women Over 40
Laura Linney is hardly a megastar, but the actress has had success in such a wide range of roles that she now finds herself being cast in parts that could be considered revolutionary: complicated women over the age of forty, who fail to fall into any of the traditional Hollywood pigeonholes.
“Onerous” Quote Reverberates In Jacksonville
Early on in the Jacksonville Symphony lockout, the orchestra’s board chair made an off-the-cuff remark to a reporter: “I really do respect our musicians, but there’s something about a 37-week year and 20 hours a week that doesn’t seem too onerous.” That sound bite has been repeated everywhere in the music world, and for the musicians, has come to symbolize a management mindset completely at odds with orchestral reality.
Jerusalem Symphony Regains Its Footing
The court-appointed receiver whose job it was to steer the cash-strapped Jerusalem Symphony out of a sea of debt has resigned his position, signaling that the JSO is once again able to function on its own. Fiscal challenges will undoubtedly continue, but for an orchestra that faced extinction only a few months ago, the announcement was cause for celebration.