Word: concertizer
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Imagine Christina Aguilera in front of hundreds of screaming fans. Now imagine most of those fans are over thirty. That was the scene at Avalon last month as the 21-plus club hosted the KISS 108 FM Jingle Ball concert, featuring several artists who normally appeal to a decidedly younger audience. Even 18-year-old Aguilera would have been bounced if she'd tried to enter through the club's front door. However, the crowd, made up of largely of lucky listeners, tried their best to impersonate a teenage audience, and, as the night wore on and the alcohol flowed...
...profile of Kaufman in the New Yorker by Julie Hecht, who hung out with him in those days, he spoke about killing himself on television, which would have been, for him, the perfect summarizing gesture. Probably he was kidding. But his self-destructive and endlessly confrontational relationship with networks, concert managers and audiences was the great theme of his career. He was always disconcertingly catching everyone between laughter and outrage. And the cookies-and-milk treat he sometimes offered later never quite healed that ambiguity. Man on the Moon doesn't either. It just gives us Andy, the pop postmodernist...
...same thing about books? "Who would buy books online? You have to be able to flip through the pages." And wasn't it you who said, "I'd never buy plane tickets online. I can't imagine not talking to my travel agent!" And mortgages? And toys? Concert tickets and CDs? "But I'd never," you said. Yes, you will...
...sale on eBay is currently about $40.) eBay has also begun rolling out local eBays, starting with eBay Los Angeles. The idea is to provide a local market for big items like cars and furniture that can't easily be shipped long distances and for location-specific items like concert tickets...
They keep trying. More than 4,000 people thronged to the school's parking lot on a chilly Thursday night for a long-planned concert, held to thank all the hospitals, churches, police and others who have helped Columbine recover. Despite the Internet threat, the mood was downright jolly. Principal Frank DeAngelis bunny-hopped with Snoopy. The crowd rocked when the band sang Noel to the tune of YMCA. Tim McLoone, president of Holiday Express, the concert's headline act, announced, "At 6:30 this morning they told me school was canceled. Do these people ever have a normal, dull...