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...threefold increase in digital-music revenue from downloads, global-retail revenues from recorded music fell a further 2% in 2005; overall the figure is down 20% since 1999. That crisis has seen a wholesale revamping of the music-business model. In the old days, sending a band on tour was seen as a necessity, often purely to promote record sales - and yet another cost fronted by the label. Now playing live is becoming increasingly lucrative for the artists, whether the labels get a piece of it or not. "We used to give artists tour support, then recoup it from their...
...perfectly judged pathos of this production, for which Gow has subtly tweaked the ending. "It's a play about death," he explains. "And how you deal with that shows how you value life, I guess." Putting his family snapshot on the poster and program accompanying Away's current national tour (which runs until October) also acknowledges how much the play is about the playwright. "It was a turning-30 play," Gow says, "so it was very much: Where am I from? Who am I? How did I get to be this? It all ended up in that play...
...There's no question that there's a growing interest in this type of travel," says David Iverson, who runs A Cook's Tour, a Seattle-based agency specializing in culinary trips. He launched his business with a single trip for eight people to Italy in 2001. This year the company will offer more than 30 international excursions for 400?including four to Oaxaca, where travelers spend a week cooking at Casa Oaxaca restaurant. "It's a new way to travel," he explains. "For the person who is on their 10th trip to Mexico, they're going to see another...
...consumption in Japan has surged almost 200% in 10 years. The Bordeaux Interprofessional Wine Council (CIVB) has recently upped its annual promotional budget to $27 million to reach new markets like Fukuoka, and the effort is paying off. CIVB president Christian Delpeuch recently returned from a three-continent promotional tour. "Sales since the beginning of 2005 have never been so good," he says, noting up to 47% export increases to Britain, the U.S. and China from December 2005 through February 2006. "Those smart enough to have concentrated their efforts on quality and promotion are rapidly taking back the market...
...They were drinking hard; they were dressed to the hilt in U.S. national team shirts (and the inevitable baseball hats); there were Elvis impersonators and even some moron in an Uncle Sam outfit. We were rolling. "It's going to be like a snowball, like Lance Armstrong winning the Tour," asserted Christian Kantlehner, 23, from Rutland, Vermont, anticipating a U.S. win. The American fans got a good rhythmic chant going before the game started, (not the usual U-S-A) and sounded absolutely patriotic during the playing of the national anthem. That is to say, they actually sang the words...