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Hard Knock Life

Posted on April 23, 2012 by boz

In yesterday’s post for Salon, journalist Scott Timberg explores why there is “No Sympathy for the Creative Class.” He writes, “There’s a sense that manufacturing, or the agrarian economy, is what this country is really about. But culture was, for … Continue reading →

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All Good Gifts

Posted on April 20, 2012 by boz

In Broadway’s Golden Age, producers would hold backers’ auditions to raise funds. For example, librettist Arthur Laurents remembered how Cheryl Crawford organized an event for West Side Story investors at “an apartment on the East Side [where] there was no … Continue reading →

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