Archive for 2010/05


From The Mailbag

Subject: the Eagles cancel Hi Mr Lefsetz, Just wanted to drop you a quick note. So are you really an impartial observer when you comment on the Axl/Irving fued. I mean Irving is Irving right? I really just wanted to mention this Eagles fiasco. I wrote you the morning of the stadium onsales and told […]

Soft Ticket Sales

This weekend you can go see "Shrek" for twenty bucks. Or maybe not. In the process of trying to maintain revenue, the movie industry is trying to squeeze every last buck out of its customers for special events.  By time they’re done, will there even be a movie business?  Or will it look more like […]

The Hold Steady

I must have heard from every Hold Steady fan in America (they don’t seem to have international fans, I didn’t hear from any), and I respect the devotion, the only question is…can that devotion spread? Or, as one Mike Van Jura wrote to me: "Those of us who’ve been adamant supporters of ‘the best bar […]