Entry fees are only half the battle. You’ll spend quite a bit on lodging, transportation, food and alcohol as well. In fact, hotel prices for Coachella weekends are 140% higher than normal, according to hotel booking website Trivago. Even compared to last year, hotel costs for properties within 10-miles of the festival are up by $120.
Category: AUDIENCE
Can The Arts Bring People Together In Areas Of Conflict?
“There is currently a rise in interest in the work of artists in areas of conflict. This work runs the risk of ascribing too much power to art, whereby it is seen as a potential panacea to the ills of the world.”
Outwitting The Companies That Want To Mine And Sell Your Browser History?
Thomas Beller writes about “Internet Noise,” a piece of software that will load your history with countless randomly generated search requests – the idea being that your real history will be drowned within all the “noise.” Brilliant? Or quixotic? (Quixotic, we’re afraid.)
English National Opera ‘Would Not Survive’ Without Musicals, Says Producer Who Does Musicals There
Michael Linnit, who co-produces the musicals presented at the Coliseum, ENO’s home theatre (and London’s largest), said the company “only produces its opera six months of the year, so we facilitate those six months by taking in musicals, producing a lot of money for it. … It [ENO] would not survive without the additional rental weeks.”
Short-Attention-Span Music?
“Online streaming services offer countless choices, so there’s no reason to stick with a song that doesn’t grab you right off the bat. And many people don’t: Research from 2014 found Spotify subscribers skip about one-third of sampled songs after a mere 20 seconds. But perhaps more interesting is the notion that this new reality is changing the way music is written and recorded.”
How We Describe Buildings – Emotion Over Ideas?
“Architects tend to imitate the language of their clients and critics because they themselves are visual, visceral people for whom the thing itself and not a description of it is the dominant motivator. It has always been like that: the architects of the gothic revival spoke passionately in terms of morality and truth because that was the terminology the church-builders who employed them wanted to hear.”
Why Netflix Is Getting Rid Of Ratings
“People rated aspirationally, but they watched situationally. Yes, you did give That Important Documentary five stars when you got around to watching it, but at the end of a trying day at the office, you more often settled on viewing some pleasing pap like “The Ridiculous 6.” This sort of virtue signaling, often undercut by divergent behavior, is everywhere — witness the discrepancies that sometimes occur between polling and actual voting in elections.”
Some Ideas For The Pittsburgh Symphony To Attract New Audiences
“Not every traditional program needs a nonmusical draw. But I don’t think drawing connections between pieces of music — and making those connections clear to the audience — would dumb down the orchestra’s product. In fact, it may make the PSO’s programming as unique as its sound.”
Long Time Ago Our Culture Was Passed On Orally. Then Writing Came Along And Changed Everything
“The freezing in text of dialectical reasoning, with a heavy admixture (however impure or problematic) of poetry, aphorism and myth, became the model for what, in the European tradition, was thought of as ‘philosophy’ for the next few millennia. Why are these historical reflections important today? Because what is at stake is nothing less than our understanding of the scope and nature of philosophical enquiry.”
Harry Potter Festival Canceled After Massive World-Wide Interest Overwhelms Organizers
“The festival has been cancelled amid concerns that it had got out of hand. Mr Hamilton, one of the co-ordinator’s of the Bearsden Festival, said people had been planning to travel from all over Europe and some had compared it to T in the Park, a music festival that attracts 80,000 a day. He said it was a small, local event that had been held for five years.”