Arts & Entertainment
Top 3 Ways to Tell You’re Getting Ripped Off by a Club or Booker
Category: Arts & Entertainment Written by CDBaby.com
Running a music venue is hard work. Let’s get that little truth out of the way upfront. Long hours. Liquor licenses. Sound system maintenance. Booking. Oh, and, umm... dealing with musicians! (Face it: we can be a bunch of immature divas sometimes, especially when alcohol is involved.) But that doesn’t justify skimming off the top or inflating projected costs in order to earn a few extra bucks at our expense.
So, here are a few things to be on the lookout for when it comes time to collect payment at the end of the night:
1. The Catering Budget – Did the club keep $250 from the door to cover “catering,” and then leave you with two cases of Budweiser and a snack platter? Yeah, they’re probably pocketing the rest for themselves.
2. Promotional Cost – Did they print unique posters for your show and distribute them all around town? Did they run an individual print or radio ad for your show? Or did they print posters for their venue that list all the shows over the next week or two, and run an ad in the local weekly for all the shows that month? If you’re not getting special promotional attention from the venue, then your contribution to their promotional costs shouldn’t be that high. If they are, chances are the club is making every band kick in money and then giving the promotional “group-treatment” in order to earn some extra dough.
Last Updated on Saturday - 12.10.11 @ 5:24 PM
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Tupac's Next Posthumous Release: A Screenplay
Category: Arts & Entertainment Written by Daniel Kreps
Tupac Shakur was many things in his short lifetime: rapper, actor, poet, dancer... and apparently a screenwriter. A screenplay written by Shakur called Live 2 Tell has been given the quick green light by NStar Studios after sitting on a shelf for the past 16 years. The title may make it sound like Tupac wrote a Madonna biopic, but Live 2 Tell is the story of "a teenage drug lord and his efforts to leave a life of crime," according to Variety. Sounds thematically similar to films like Juice and Above the Rim that Tupac had once starred. Shakur reportedly wrote the screenplay while he was locked up for 11 months at New York's Clinton Correctional Facility in 1995.
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Somerville to host second festival for art
Category: Arts & Entertainment Written by KAYLA SLIMP - THEEAGLE.COM
The Second Annual Festival of the Arts in downtown Somerville is a place where art is celebrated and appreciated, no matter what the medium is.
"If you can make art out of it, we want to help make you hone and develop your talent," said Julie Smith, president of Arts at the Lake, the organization sponsoring the event.
The festival begins at 10 a.m. Saturday and lasts through 5 p.m.
"We're doing it to bring to people's attention to talented people in this area. The purpose of Arts at the Lake is to promote art in all its forms," Smith said.
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