A breakfast meeting with David Blaine last week was a very pleasing and revelatory experience; it’s good to sit and talk with someone who really, really gets true showmanship, spectacle, creativity, word of mouth and viral publicity and who has encountered many of the same things I’ve encountered, even the Russian circus act with a…
Classical rebels play it demure by Maurice Chittenden and Gillian Bowditch Sunday Times 19th November 2006. WHEN Katie Targett-Adams takes to the stage with her Celtic harp in Beijing this week she will not be wearing the suggestive outfit that has become de rigueur for the ambitious young female classical musician. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2460345,00.html
This is scary and post Hutton should remind us all to be vigelent Leftists aren’t the only dissenters from the war in Iraq to feel the consequences of the Clear Channel’s pro-war tilt. Radio talk show host Charles Goyette, a Goldwater Reaganite, has been bumped from his slot and expects to lose his job because…