After several weeks of theming my Crowdfunding Campaigns of the Week column, this week we’re taking it back to the basics, two unrelated projects on two different crowdfunding sites. This week we’ve got an archival release from a stadium filling […]
When Ralph Peer’s father, owner of a furniture store in Independence, Missouri, started selling Victrolas in the early 20th century as a sideline, Peer became fascinated with the problem of providing sufficient content to satisfy the demand created by this […]
As winter rolls into spring—and winter has often felt more like spring this year here in Chicago—publishers cultivate a new crop of books, sending the fruits of the authors’ long labors into the arms of readers waiting for the lush, […]
This week, I’ve simply found the best photographs uploaded to this site and collected them into an entertaining slideshow. Explanations follow: I caught Patty Griffin, Sara Watkins, and Anais Mitchell on their third stop on a six-week tour that is […]
