Spitzer bows re online sales tax
In a remarkable response to protest from this website (and ok, perhaps some others), New York State governor Elliott Spitzer "believes that now is not the right time to be increasing sales taxes on New Yorkers" and "has directed the Department of Tax and Finance to pull back its interpretation that would require some Internet retailers that do not collect sales tax to do so."
Source: NYT blog
New York Sun report on the squelched plan
Jazz Beyond Jazz extends its appreciation and support to the Governor, whose electoral momentum and admirable reformist agenda have been wasted by misteps and reversals. I still hope he's able to prevail against state legislature powerhouse Joseph Bruno and nativist sentiment against immigrant workers in the U.S. without legal status.
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Interviews & Articles
Over the course of three decades, I've been privileged to get behind the scenes and meet heroic creators of jazz as well as up-and-comers, innovators and exemplars of many other genres. Please enjoy these archival interviews and articles.
Blogroll
Jazz Journalists Association's Jazzhouse
Thelonius Monk Institute of Jazz
James Hale's Jazz Chronicles
The Bad Plus' Do The Math
Larry Blumenfeld's Listen Good
Fred Kaplan's Jazz Messenger
Doug Ramsey's Riffides
Hank Shteamer's Dark Forces Swing Blind Punches
Michael J. West's Pop Musicology
Tim Posgate's Canadian 'jazzlife'
David R. Adler's Lerterland
Dean Minderman's St. Louis Jazz Notes
Carl Wilson's cross-genre Zoilus
Darcy James Argue's Secret Society
David Ryshpan's Settled in Shipping
Dave Douglas's Greenleaf Music Blog
Pamela's Bebopified
Andrea Cantor's JazzInk
Kazue Yokoi's exblog (in Japanese)
Jazz.com
Bob Lewis' Jazz My Two Cents Worth
AJ Blogs
AJBlogCentral | rssculture
Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
Andrew Taylor on the business of arts & culture
rock culture approximately
Rebuilding Gulf Culture after Katrina
Douglas McLennan's blog
Art from the American Outback
John Rockwell on the arts
Jan Herman - arts, media & culture with 'tude
dance
Apollinaire Scherr talks about dance
Tobi Tobias on dance et al...
media
Jeff Weinstein's Cultural Mixology
Martha Bayles on Film...
music
Greg Sandow performs a book-in-progress
Howard Mandel's freelance Urban Improvisation
Focus on New Orleans. Jazz and Other Sounds
Exploring Orchestras w/ Henry Fogel
Kyle Gann on music after the fact
Doug Ramsey on Jazz and other matters...
Greg Sandow on the future of Classical Music
Norman Lebrecht on Shifting Sound Worlds
publishing
Jerome Weeks on Books
Scott McLemee on books, ideas & trash-culture ephemera
theatre
Elizabeth Zimmer on time-based art forms
visual
Public Art, Public Space
John Perreault's art diary
Lee Rosenbaum's Cultural Commentary
Tyler Green's modern & contemporary art blog
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