These aren't necessarily insults — the middlebrow is where art and entertainment get together over canapés and cold beers, and Harbach knows it: in the same essay, he first cited Franzen's "Freedom" as an archetype of the New York middlebrow, then praised it as "the best American novel of the young millennium".
The nature of the events is largely determined by the demographic of the building; at the Camden in Hollywood, where studios start at around $2,000 a month and many residents are millennials who work in entertainment, get-togethers might include a game at Staples Center or a pub crawl.
Your weekend, your entertainment, is getting together with the rest of your family, and families are big.
"If all the entertainment industries got together and made a worldwide Hulu of sorts, they could and would kill piracy, even if it was a minimal fee, similar to Netflix; but have the entire library open worldwide, rather than [the way Netflix works], where someone can't watch something like The Office unless they are located in the US".
"If all the entertainment industries got together and made a worldwide Hulu of sorts, they could and would kill piracy even if it was a minimal fee similar to Netflix; but have the entire library open worldwide, rather than [the way Netflix works] where someone can't watch something like The Office unless they are located in the US".
One of the earliest memories of Ms. Carano, the middle daughter of Dana and Glenn Carano, a former backup quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys, is the after-dinner entertainment at family get-togethers: sofas and chairs would be cleared from the living room, and one after the other, little Gina would wrestle her male cousins.
Think of a world in which the entertainment and publishing companies got together and bought the cable companies and you get some idea of what Varsavsky has in mind.
Frustrated by the lack of truly family-friendly entertainment options, Abubakar Gharzai got together with five friends and built the Galaxy Family Cinema.
"In the dark, dinky cabarets, there was smoke-filled entertainment, that was where they got together and created great ideas".
Kids need a place to get together for entertainment without having to drive to another town.
