Even with a ton of torrenting and occasional free download offers, say comic book publishers, “digital brings new and lapsed readers to comics, so it’s additive to the overall industry. We are really interested in widening our readership, as that’s good for everybody.”
Tag: 03.15.13
Christo’s Massive Indoor Air Dome Opens In Germany
“Big Air Package — a massive, inflated fabric dome standing 90m high and 50m across — completely fills Germany’s Gasometer Oberhausen, a huge former natural gas holding tank that was converted into an event space and exhibition venue in 1988.”
Found: The Titanic Bandmaster’s Violin
“Survivors of the Titanic have said they remember the band, led by Wallace Hartley, playing on deck even as passengers boarded lifeboats after the ship hit an iceberg.”
Bolshoi Director May Recover Enough Sight To Return To Work
“Doctors also warned that ‘such chemical damage to the eyes demands complex, long-term treatment,’ and predicted that Mr Filin would spend ‘months rather than weeks’ in treatment.”
The San Francisco Symphony Strike: All Of The Background, And More
What in the world led the San Francisco Symphony to this point? “Here are some of the main issues, as far as information can be found in the always-secretive business of contract negotiations.”
Rafael Puyana, 81, Harpsichordist Extraordinaire
“Above all, he was renowned for the range of tonal colors he could coax from his instrument — no mean feat considering that in the wrong hands, the harpsichord can sound like rain on a tin roof.”
Composer Ennio Morricone Is Over Quentin Tarantino
“Tarantino is frustrating to work with, Morricone said, observing that the two-time Oscar winner ‘places music in his films without coherence’ and ‘you can’t do anything with someone like that.'”
Will Amazon Destroy German Publishing Houses?
“For decades, this publishing aristocracy could take special pride in two things: it made money and it represented more than just vile profit. A colorful intellectual elite was created as a result, as well as a culture of literary abundance — the intellectual backbone of the nation.”
Eli Broad’s Still A Player In the Drama Of MoCA And LACMA
“Art world experts speculate that Broad could be motivated by rivalry with Govan and a desire to ensure a successful launch of his namesake Broad Collection museum, which is set to open across the street from MOCA’s Grand Avenue base next year.”
Artist Whose Neo-Nazi Symbols Are Not So Ironic Responds
“Krafft asserts that he is not a racist or a Nazi, but a ‘revisionist’ whose ideas are based in history. ‘I just don’t buy this thing about “2,000 people a day being gassed at Auschwitz,”‘ Krafft claims; ‘it doesn’t add up to me technologically.'”