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It sounded too good to be true, and it is. Over the past weekend, flyers promoting a free concert featuring the Dave Matthews Band, Michael Franti and Slightly Stoopid circulated widely around Missoula. The concert, which allegedly was slated for May 1, was also promoted via Twitter, a Web site, and text messages. But according to multiple sources, it was all an elaborate hoax. [Read More...] I called the UM school of music to find out why we’d received no press release about a concert by Chirgilchin, a group of Tuvan throat-singers, which my wife had seen advertised for this coming Sunday at the UM Music Recital Hall. Turns out, the group was unable to secure the necessary visas [...] Advertisement Um, so, uh. In my newspaperman panic about getting new information out there as soon as possible (and more to the point, my panic about how this affects the column that is supposed to run in Friday’s Entertainer), I didn’t read that AP story about Jeff Ament quite as carefully as I might [...] You know, words are slippery things. Just a couple of days ago, a reader took issue with my usage of certain words in reviews I’ve written of shows — oops, er, concerts — by the Missoula Symphony Orchestra. Now comes news of a Florida lawmaker who apparently thinks that animal husbandry is marriage [...] You’d think that someone would have sent out a memo at this point. Yet another public space has been evacuated — this time part of a major airport — after someone spotted a sticker, affixed to a bicycle, adorned with the name of the band, This Bike is a Pipe Bomb. Okay, so it’s better to be safe than sorry. But jeez, how can people in the security industry not know about the band already? This is at least the third time an incident such as this has happened, according to the Wikipedia page about the band. And every time it happens, there’s a little AP wire story about it. Apparently people don’t read their newspapers very carefully (newsflash, eh?)…. Anyway, every time something like this happens, it reminds me of an incident that ocurred in my old college town of Bloomington, Indiana. I arrived at work this morning to find a handwritten note in my mail slot, along with a copy of the story I wrote about the Oldtimers Skate Night at Fiftytwo Skatepark. It’s the kind of letter that gives me great hope…(click through to see the letter) [Read More...] As plenty of folks have now pointed out, and as we later corrected, a story ran in Saturday’s paper — written by yours truly — with a pretty glaring error featured in the body as well as the subhead of the story. The story, about the house that David and Stephanie Boone are building on Hickory Street in Missoula, stated (originally) that their final construction cost will average out to 45 cents per square foot, compared to a local baseline average (as stated in the story) of $1.50 per square foot. As more than a few people pointed out before we corrected the story online, those figures were off by two decimal places: They should have been $45 and $150, respectively. Doh! Further confusion and even some apparent anger ensued after one of our editors corrected the story online. |
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