"If the mayor is there doing the opening, that's going to generate more interest," said Nicholas Baume, the director and chief curator of the Public Art Fund.
This year, he turned seventy-eight, and he will perform between seventy and ninety dates across the United States; at every one of them, barring disaster, he will arrive a good hour before whoever's doing the opening act.
It's a show that Apple has ignored, perhaps partly because Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has been doing the opening keynotes, and Jobs is too proud to be a support act.
The Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center on Main Street, which relies more on a mixed-bag of entertainment than just theater, has Mort Sahl, the comedian, doing the opening honors at 8 30 p.m. on Saturday.
"That's me—I'm like a fighter". This year, he turned seventy-eight, and he will perform between seventy and ninety dates across the United States; at every one of them, barring disaster, he will arrive a good hour before whoever's doing the opening act.
The best book presents are those that say something about, and to, the person doing the opening; the acme of my own book-gifting career came when I gave my dad – a socialist with a geography degree – a copy of Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs and Steel for Christmas.
