Last Sunday night I went to the Wiltern to see Ray LaMontagne. I am not a fan of the act, but I am of the manager, so as a favor I went.  I wasn’t closed.  But the throng in attendance was.  It was a veritable babeathon.  I saw Joey Lauren Adams downstairs by the bathroom, […]

Bill told me they left a lot of money on the table.  That in most markets tickets were $30-$35.  The ducat I was holding had a price of $42.50, yet I was in the sixth row.  To see Jason Mraz at the Greek! Do I really care? I remember seeing him back at the Wiltern, […]

I was so much older than the rest of the crowd that it was like I didn’t even exist.  Andrew McMahon’s parents were in the audience, he pointed them out deep into the show.  I was stunned to see they were contemporaries.  And there was this old man walking around who might have been his […]

Conventional wisdom is the entertainment business is recession-proof.  If you believe that, you probably believe Sarah Palin is our country’s foremost energy expert. The movie business was hurt by the last recession.  But at least their prices are cheap.  Ours are stratospheric. We’ve got high prices, a dearth of superstar talent and a financial meltdown.  […]