This moment represents a new low for music journalism as a whole. But it’s in times like these that prefigurative visions come more clearly into focus. - Boston Review
The Trilogy firms—which are controlled by Canadian billionaire Gerald Schwartz, an Indigo board member and the husband of Indigo founder and CEO Heather Reisman—already own 60.6% of all of Indigo’s shares. - Publishers Weekly
"(Larry Goodman), interim president and CEO, announced Tuesday he would permanently fill the position. Goodman was formerly on the company’s board of directors when it launched an investigation into its workplace culture and practices." - WEWS News 5 Cleveland
During her 16 years at Random House, Morrison wrote hundreds of rejection letters. Usually typed on pink, yellow, or white carbonless copy paper, and occasionally bearing Random House’s old logo and letterhead, these are now filed among her correspondence in the Random House archives. - LA Review of Books
Benjamin Franklin, who founded the Library Company of Philadelphia In 1731. "(It) allowed members — at first, largely male artisans of modest means — to purchase (low-cost) shares in the library. … After early successes, the Library Company soon began allowing non-shareholders to borrow books, too, requiring only a small fee as collateral." - Smithsonian Magazine
Evidently, the time is ripe for a survey of the branch of cultural production concerned with the end of the world. And yet, tales have been told about it for as long as we’ve been doing story. - Literary Review
"The Worst Cafe in the World, a new, creatively interactive Off-Broadway production, … actually gives audience members a menu of theatrical moments to choose from, and based on their selections, the cast will piece together the show." - Time Out New York
News that the drawing is going on the market is likely to expand what has until now been a rather low-key, academic debate over the authorship of a work that has remained in private hands, and mostly out of the public eye, for the past five centuries. - The New York Times
He founded Sankai Juku, which did more than any other troupe to spread butoh in the West, in 1975 and had led it ever since. "Butoh performances are characterized by slow, intense and sometimes contorted movements. The dancers often appear with white body paint and shaved heads." - The Asahi Shimbun (in English)
“This campaign is going to solve a major problem that the symphony has wrestled with for years, of not having a big enough endowment to help balance its budget. It’s giving us future stability in a way that we’ve never been able to enjoy before.” - Charlotte Observer
"The Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts can’t build its $175 million third phase until Orange County and the city of Orlando provide most of the funding, said arts center President and CEO Katherine Ramsberger. The center cannot raise that much money by itself, she added." - WFTV (Orlando)
Well, first he spent two weeks considering suicide. Then he realized that, with today's technology and his international contacts, he could set about recreating the books he lost. - The Guardian
"Industry professionals say soaring ticket prices are due to various reasons, including rising production costs, a changing industry and the rise of celebrity headliners. Many of the shifts they cited have been in the making for decades, but have been exacerbated by the pandemic," - Gothamist
"(Earl Marshawn) Washington ... was sentenced for conspiracy to commit wire fraud and mail fraud. He was also ordered to pay restitution to victims in the total amount of $203,240.90 and serve a three-year term of supervised release after his imprisonment." - USA Today
Four of the eliminated positions are in the business office of the Chicago Sun-Times, which merged with WBEZ in 2022. The remaining ten come from the radio station's now-closed podcast unit and from Vocalo, a subchannel featuring indie jazz, hip-hop and R&B along with programming in Spanish. - Inside Radio
