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...pool. The first (and only) time my wife and I swam at night, she said, "This is a scene from every slasher movie ever." It seemed so decadent--swimming under the stars in our own wooded backyard--that we half-deserved to be filleted by Freddy Krueger...
...what is a fair price for a hot concert ticket? All this competition may finally sort that out. Concert organizers underprice shows to attract interest, but fans end up paying an average of 45% above face value for resold tickets, according to a study by Alan Krueger, economics professor at Princeton University. Sites like StubHub are, in effect, helping to determine the correct price for tickets; even Ticketmaster now uses an auction to price some premium seats. For music fans, that means the days of camping overnight for a front-row ticket are truly over. But they...
...Keith Krueger, RACINE...
...politics is not about prime time and gentlemanly gestures, as Richards would find out when she took the next step on the big stage and announced a bid for governor. The Democratic primary pitted Richards against the man sometimes called the Freddie Krueger of Texas politics, then Attorney General Jim Mattox. In public Richards smiled, hugged photographers' necks and asked, "Howya doin' darlin?" But she was tough as nails in the trenches. Mattox accused her of failing to come clean on rumors that she had used cocaine. It was nasty, but she beat Mattox and went on to win over...
...ticket sales of around $300 million from the 110 dates they played in 2005 ensuring, even after hefty production costs, a healthy cut for the promoters, management and venues. For the mega-acts, concerts are now the horse driving the CD cart. In a paper by Princeton economist Alan Krueger and grad student Marie Connolly called Rockonomics: The Economics of Popular Music, the writers found that in the U.S., "Only four of the top 35 income earners made more money from recordings than live concerts...