From: Dan Navarro  Subject: Re: Affirmative Action Were it not for Affirmative Action in 1969, I would not have been able to attend UCLA immediately upon high school graduation. I was admitted under the Educational Opportunities Program (EOP) that looked past my mediocre grades, and into my wide range of activities, strong letters of recommendation, […]

The theatrical movie business is never going to recover. And we might need population growth to fill all those office buildings. But music? It keeps getting bigger and bigger. The movie business killed itself. This is what happens when you put bean counters in charge. Let’s see… Marketing expenses are so high, let’s make fewer […]

I just got off the phone with Ahmed Nimale, CEO and Co-Founder of KYD Labs. Know him? I doubt it. And neither did I, until I hosted a panel about ticketing at Canadian Music Week. Ticketing. It’s a game few understand, and few want to understand. And ultimately this panel wasn’t about solving the ticketing […]

https://newwestsymphony.org/#schedule I went to hear Alex Ligertwood sing “Winning.” I felt like I was on vacation. You take the 405 deep into the Valley, and then you go left onto the 118, so far that you end up in a different county. But pretty soon the landscape looks different, like in those westerns the boomers […]