Word: concertizing
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...incident that prompted Fridays’ column was the allocation of funds to bring a concert and a comedian to campus to do two separate shows for students. Some proposed that doing so would eclipse the council’s more important funding duties. They are right in their impulses to protect student groups and strive for fiscal responsibility—but wrong to continue to do so when any legitimate basis for their fears have been erased...
WRITING A BOOK IS SO RETRO. SHOULDN'T YOU BE BLOGGING OR SOMETHING? I can't. It's too hip. Then I'd have to get a BlackBerry, and I'm wired in, and next thing you know, I'm at a Black-Eyed Peas concert with a crack problem. I just can't go down that road...
During that same semester, the council had to use $20,000 from its Grants Fund to pay for a concert after realizing that it had already spent all the money it set aside for council-run initiatives. This is more money not available for the intended student groups...
Before the curtain goes up at any concert venue around the country, the headlining act must engage in some backstage banter with local DJs, the children of corporate sponsors and whomever the Teamsters want to impress. The music industry calls this compulsory session the meet and greet, and because the spontaneity is scheduled and the patronage barely disguised, it is often the grimmest 15 minutes of any touring musician's day. But Tim McGraw loves it. He has his road crew set up a tent with a tiny stage and shabby-chic furniture. He keeps everyone plied with Bud Light...
...every record label for being too ordinary before becoming a star when Curb Records finally took a chance on him in 1992. But McGraw is still somehow greater than the sum of his songs, in large part because, while his message can appear calculated, his charisma is authentic. In concert, when he gets a chance to blast his exuberant Everydudeness to the back row, he can make even the most conventional music seem inspirational. He has, as TIME's Joe Klein wrote in frustration and admiration of Clinton in The Natural, the "ability to charm almost anyone under any circumstances...