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...Washington there are bailouts to be had for banks and car companies, but what about Portland's Oregon Ballet Theatre? OBT's 20th anniversary season is around the corner, but its budget has dropped 28%. It's hard to celebrate in style when faced with a "very serious cash crunch," says executive director Jon Ulsh. And it's forcing arts groups to be ever more creative about where and how they look for support...
...past few months, many established arts groups have folded, with many more on the skids. The Master Chorale of Washington performed its final concert on May 17 after 43 years. The Baltimore Opera went bankrupt after a six-decade run. The Las Vegas Art Museum shuttered in late February after 59 years. And the Milwaukee Shakespeare Theatre Company disbanded last October after nine years. "Shocking" is how former marketing director Kristin Godfrey described her reaction when she learned the troupe had to be shut down. As a result of plummeting investments at the Argosy Foundation - which sponsored two-thirds...
...Help from Washington will go only so far, so local community support might be the arts' best bet. As the biannual 2010 Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival in Morristown, N.J. - which typically draws some 20,000 poets from around the globe - nears extinction, its surrounding community has surfaced to offer support. Dodge Foundation CEO David Grant's appeals seem to be working, and if this continues, the four-day gathering may return...
...original Mr. Six ads ran from 2004 to 2005. But when Washington Redskins owner Daniel Snyder, Six Flags' largest shareholder, won his bid to take control of the company in late 2005, he ripped the campaign. His management team soon killed the ads. "Mr. Six went on sabbatical," says Angie Vieira Barocas, senior VP of marketing and entertainment at Six Flags. "People associated him with Six Flags, but he wasn't necessarily converting people's intention to visit our parks into actual visitation." (See pictures of theme parks in China...
...publicly supported the U.S. position - Netanyahu clearly believes he can force the President to back down. And in doing so, the Israeli leader has taken a position from which he'll find it difficult to retreat. Netanyahu will get strong political support within Israel for standing up to Washington on Jerusalem (as he has done by resisting pressure for a settlement freeze), and he expects that the more symbolically powerful issue of the Holy City will win him support in the U.S. from Jewish leaders and Christian conservatives. In introducing Netanyahu via a video link at the annual conference...