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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most practical solution to the problem of obtaining tickets is to keep abreast of concert dates and information. Reading music magazines and the arts section of the paper helps. A couple of subscriptions will run you about $35. Periodically to the various box offices, aren't a bad idea either Say another 20 bucks. Of course, everyone else is doing this too so to get a jump on them, you might want to take out a few misleading ads in the paper. (Sample format "See Bono live at Briggs Cage! Call...") This will run about $100 if you get caught...

Author: By Christopher J. Farley, | Title: The Rock Concert Blues | 2/16/1985 | See Source »

...semi-finals, finals and third place game will be held March 15 and 16 at the Boston Garden. Tickets are priced at eight and 10 dollars and are available through the Garden box office...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: MacDonald Gives Harvard a Break-Every Day | 2/14/1985 | See Source »

While most cities concentrate on the number of viewing options provided by a bidder--such as Home Box Office and the Playboy Channel, the Cambridge cable television competition has been dominated by the issue of public access to the eventual cable franchise...

Author: By Thomas J. Winslow, | Title: Cambridge to Pick Cable Franchise | 2/12/1985 | See Source »

Telluride's unique ambience and special magic are set picturesquely at the & end of State Highway 145 in a box canyon some 350 difficult miles and a couple of decades southwest of Denver. But the onetime rip-roaring mining town in the San Juan Mountains has never quite been a backwater. Butch Cassidy came by to rob one of its banks, and William Jennings Bryan stopped off to say a few words. The local mines used to yield gold, silver and other precious metals, but the last of the major ones closed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Gentrifying a Mountain Paradise | 2/11/1985 | See Source »

While the elks seethed, the hippies did their thing. They restored many of the Victorian jewel-box buildings (the entire town was named a national historic district in 1963) and established tough, low-growth zoning codes. Fifteen summer festivals, including one for mushrooms, sprang up; the eleven- year-old Telluride film festival is one of the most respected in the U.S. Radio station KOTO still plays the marching music. "Some days you can hear 6 1/2 hours of Bob Dylan," says Actress Susan Saint James, who came for the film festival and decided to buy a house five years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Gentrifying a Mountain Paradise | 2/11/1985 | See Source »

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