EToys, the online toy retailer sued Etoy, the European conceptual artist group to get the latter to stop using its name. Even though the artists got to cyberspace first. Now EToys offers to drop its trademark infringement suit. New York Times
It’s been a record year for movie admissions. Yet theater owners are bleeding red ink after a binge of theater-building. The 24-screen mega-plexes have led to the over-screening of America. Philadelphia Inquirer
Pretending to know is a ticket to nowhere. Knowing you don’t know is a good thing, a creative and freeing thing. A company that teaches the creativity in knowing you don’t know. Financial Times
Fifty years ago, Osbert Sitwell’s autobiography was widely acclaimed “as one of the masterpieces of 20th-century writing in English. Today most of Sitwell’s works, including the autobiography, remain in print, but only in expensive library editions available on special order, and it is doubtful whether many people read them.” Now a new biography. – Boston Globe
The playwright takes a movie role. And talks about his upcoming plays. – New York Times
Appointment of ex-Mobil treasurer brings some serious for-profit expertise to the non-profit Washington DC opera company at a time of potential expansion. – Washington Post
