A blended concert video featuring B.B. King and the B.B. King band at B.B.’s blues clubs in Nashville and Dallas, in October 2006. Terrific video and, of course, even better music. The Fine Print. Embed made possible via YouTube (thanks, guys). All rights owned by respective artist. This video through Geffen Records, A …
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The Weekend Concert Series: B.B.King and Band at B.B. Blues Clubs (Nashville & Dallas)
A blended concert video featuring B.B. King and the B.B. King band at B.B.’s blues clubs in Nashville and Dallas, in October 2006. Terrific video and, of course, even better music. The Fine Print. Embed made possible via YouTube (thanks, guys). All rights owned by respective artist. This video through Geffen Records, A …
The Thrill Is Gone: B.B. King Dies at 89
Editor’s Note: We’ve interrupted the planned multi-day run of Gay Talese’s seminal profile of Frank Sinatra to pay tribute to another music giant who passed today. The Sinatra profile will be re-posted at a later date…or..you can just scroll down from this post to find it. Transitions: Riley B. King, known all over the world …
Vineyard Vines Polishes The Brand
Great video from Bloomberg.com on the clothing/lifestyle company Vineyard Vines, which has just completed the build out of a 91,000SF office in Stamford, CT. If you want to see how to push out to the edges of a brand, here’s your chance. Great office, which goes very well with the great clothes. The Fine Print: Beach …
Disrupting the Auto Industry
A startling article on the front page of Bloomberg.com by writer Julie Verhage forecasts the future of the automobile industry. Verhage illustrates her article with a chart that breaks the auto industry into four quadrants and as one moves through the chart, it is possible to see the auto industry’s past, present, near future, and distant …
Ultimate Irony: A Tweet Crashes Twitter Stock
Paying Attention. If you spend any time at all on Twitter, you quickly become amazed at the sheer speed and velocity of information that runs through the “Twittersphere”. Pick a topic to follow, and you find, inevitably, that Twitter delivers the news on that topic faster and from more different perspectives than any other media, social …
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Required Reading: The Moral Bucket List
A compelling and very thoughtful essay by David Brooks from The New York Times, on the spirituality of life and correcting a few things that may need some polish before the earthly exit. Not as exciting as climbing Mt. Ranier and some other things you may have on your physical bucket list, but equally satisfying …
Anchors Away
Do we really need news anchors anymore? Is it a position that is no longer required, given the multiplicity of news sources and the sheer velocity of information that is readily available? New York Magazine thinks the position needs re-thinking. Many media critics would take the position that today’s anchorman is more news reader than news reporter (perhaps …
One Last Class Act
This past weekend, the final gesture in the amazing life of University of North Carolina basketball Coach Dean Smith was revealed. Smith–who always thought first about others–gave one last gift to the on-court family he had nurtured, coached, pushed, developed, and lead to two National Championships at UNC. The executors of his estate sent to each …
A Little Birdie Told Me
Paying Attention: Today it starts: the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament. Arguably the biggest collegiate sports event of the year. The top 64 teams in the country (as picked by a selection committee and performance in conference championships) will take the floor to begin the dance that is the NCAA Championship. Just getting into one of …