Around the horn: Vancouver edition
Stephen Colbert is ready for the Olympics…are YOU? Did you know the Olympics used to award medals to artists between 1912 and 1948? Germany led with 24 in all. Holy moly data gold mine ahead:...
View Articleeighth blackbird and the Ethics of Pay-to-Play
Chicago-based chamber music ensemble eighth blackbird has earned the admiration of many a composer over the past 14 years for their electrifying performances, outreach to new audiences, and tireless...
View ArticleAround the horn: earthquake edition
David Byrne has a new journal entry talking about his experience speaking at the TED Conference last month. If you’d like to hear Byrne speak, he will be kicking off the Connecting New England’s...
View ArticleEconomists Don’t Care About Poor People
(Cf. for the title.) My around the horn post from this week included an item on the ethics of offering unpaid internships and a proposal under consideration across the pond to force arts organizations...
View ArticleEconomicsitis: A Response
Last week’s post, provocatively titled Economists Don’t Care About Poor People, attracted two lengthy, substantive critiques. One was from Michael Rushton, with whom I’ve tangled previously on the...
View ArticleAround the horn: Bart Stupak edition
As a reminder, feel free to submit tips for “Around the horn” via the Createquity Tipster, now in convenient spreadsheet format! For the next three weeks, UNESCO is holding an international email...
View ArticleSome further resources on the economics debate
For those of you who have been waiting patiently for Createquity to get off the economics kick it’s been indulging in for the past couple of weeks…well, all I can tell you is sit tight, we’re just...
View ArticleFive Generosity Experiments
image by Digital Explorer, some rights reserved I remember my first encounter with beggars. It was, oddly enough, while I was accompanying my parents on a trip to England when I was ten years old. We...
View ArticleEighth Blackbird Gets It Right
Earlier this year, I wrote some critical words about Chicago-based chamber music ensemble eighth blackbird’s composer competition that offered only a $1000 prize despite an abnormally high $50 entry...
View ArticleAround the horn: Heat wave edition
As we’ve mentioned here a few times recently, nonprofit organizations are now required to file a 990-N “postcard” form with the IRS every year. The National Center for Charitable Statistics has...
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