http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/arts_donation_starts_to_look_like_briber This story is a couple of days old, but worth reviving—Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and other defense-industry heavyweights have been dumping disproportionate sums into the symphony in Johnstown, PA (pop 24,000). Why lil' ol' Johnsontown? Because, the New York Times article suggests, Representative John Murtha's wife is a major booster for that symphony and Rep Murtha (D-PA) heads a Congressional committee that "hands out lucrative defense contracts." “She [Ms. Murtha] just loves knowing that we have an orchestra that is the quality of a larger city orchestra,” the symphony executive director, Patricia Hofscher, said of Mrs. Murtha. “Her friends have come... Copyright 2008 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:02:42 -0800 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:49:01 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Why is the arts such a corrupt capitalist pig dog?

]]> Bellevue Ave http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/arts_donation_starts_to_look_like_briber#c1182140 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/arts_donation_starts_to_look_like_briber#c1182140 Arts Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:38:27 -0800 Maybe big corporations could help out with busting those bothersome theater unions, too! They're good at that sort of thing.

]]> David http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/arts_donation_starts_to_look_like_briber#c1182193 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/arts_donation_starts_to_look_like_briber#c1182193 Arts Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:49:01 -0800