Archive for October 11th, 2012

New Blogger from Paris – with News

Thursday, October 11th, 2012

Paris, Thursday, October 11, 2012. When I was growing up in San Diego, one of my passions was the New Yorker column, “Letters from Paris” by the grand and gifted Janet Flanner. Her reports from this city, full of energy, intellect, passion, contradictions and good food, could have been one of the reasons I live [...]

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The Birds

Thursday, October 11th, 2012

by Sedgwick Clark At night after watching Jon Stewart and Colbert and checking out TCM’s midnight film, I’m often up proofreading or writing captions during deadline. I was up until 5 a.m. yesterday morning finishing details for the last article of the 2013 Directory to go to the designer. Last night I had looked forward [...]

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Season of Concessions

Thursday, October 11th, 2012

By ANDREW POWELL Published: October 11, 2012 MUNICH — Arts groups here present a compromised 2012–13 season, facing pros and cons not always aligned with those in America. Funding holds steady. City and state (Bavaria) play their part, and local powerhouses — Siemens, BMW, Audi, Allianz, and Linde among them — step up habitually to [...]

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Demystifying the Business of Jazz

Thursday, October 11th, 2012

By: Laura Hartmann I am delighted to have as guest blogger this week the widely respected and admired founder of LVanHart Artist Productions, Laura Hartmann. This is the first Ask Edna post that addresses jazz, and it couldn’t be in better hands. — EL This summer, while having lunch together, my friend and colleague Edna [...]

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