“Campaign groups have urged regulators to protect music and sports fans from the threat of rip-off prices after eBay agreed to sell StubHub, its ticketing business, to the Swiss ticket reseller Viagogo in a $4bn (£3.1bn) deal.” – The Guardian
Category: issues
Jeremy Corbyn Pledges New UK Charter For The Arts And Funding Of £1 Billion
Corbyn said: “The arts are a common inheritance that make our society culturally richer and put a smile on all our faces. We must cherish them and protect them. “Labour’s national strategy for the arts will embrace our rich cultural heritage from William Shakespeare to Ben Okri, Mary Quant to Tim Berners-Lee, delivering a national cultural renaissance.” – The Stage
In 1988 The Shroud Of Turin Was Declared A Fraud. But…
Oddly the original data was unavailable to researchers. But in 2017, a legal request under the Freedom of Information Act obtained the raw information for the first time. Their results, published recently in Archaeometry, show that the issue of the dating of the Turin Shroud is far from settled. – The Daily Beast
The Inventor Of The World-Wide Web Thinks We Can Fix The Internet
Aw, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, we appreciate the attempt. “The Contract for the Web is a global plan of action created over the past year by activists, academics, companies, governments and citizens from across the world to make sure our online world is safe, empowering and genuinely for everyone.” – The New York Times
The Gutting Of Local Newsrooms Is Leading To A Civic Crisis
Suburban communities lose their coverage; attitudes about national outlets taint how people feel about their hometown newspapers; reporters cover way too many beats at a time; and other very serious issues occur when places lose their local newspapers or see them massively retrenched. – Nieman Lab
Documenting ‘Old L.A.’ As Developers Destroy More And More Craftsmen Houses For Apartment Buildings
It’s not that preservationists don’t understand the need for housing – that’s obvious in L.A., as in most cities and towns on the West Coast. “It seems to me that we should fight the argument that any talk of preservation is anti-housing. Because it doesn’t have to be. We can be for affordable housing but against the kind of utter freedom to tear down and put up just about anything at all anywhere in the name of it that on the block just east of mine has produced the kind of development that makes neighborhood people cry.” – Los Angeles Times
Apple Pulls ‘The Banker’ From Theatrical Release As Allegations About Producer Emerge
The movie was supposed to be Apple’s big first narrative film release, a movie that would enter the awards discussion. Instead, the film – which stars Samuel L. Jackson and Anthony Mackie – is on indefinite hold “as the company investigates sexual abuse allegations concerning one of the movie’s co-producers.” – Los Angeles Times
Does Pay-What-You-Can Pricing Work?
Our analysis is revealing. It shows that typically, where PWYC tickets and performances are publicly available, they are taken up disproportionately by existing customers. One producing theatre found that while 48% of its regular tickets were purchased by new customers, only 26% of PWYC tickets were purchased by new customers. – Arts Professional
Would A Wealth Tax Would Hurt Non-Profits?
Tyler Cowen: “The effects of pushing wealth out of the for-profit sector would be far-ranging. Wealthy donors might be more likely to pressure nonprofits for luxury consumption experiences, for example.” – Bloomberg
Is Talent Starting To Shift Away From Superstar Big Cities?
The big knowledge and tech hubs which once had such a stranglehold on attracting talent seem to be losing their allure. Many places around the country now have bundles of amenities—renovated old buildings, coffee shops and good restaurants, music venues, and not least of all, more affordable homes—that can compete with the biggest cities. In other words, the amenity gap between superstar cities and other places has closed, while the housing-price gap has widened. – CityLab