I love the way the fringe allows niche work to flourish: who would have thought that Edinburgh could throw up enough fans of the groundbreaking 1990s musical Rent (very much the Spring Awakening of its day) to sustain Anthony Rapp's memoir show Without You (at Underbelly until 26 August after which it moves to the Menier Chocolate Factory in London).
"For most of the time, us restructuring guys were on the fringe; we were niche players," Henry Miller said.
"We are publicly 'learning' the male to female trans narrative in it's varied forms while the female to male trans narrative remains niche, fringe to queer visibility and cis straight identity," Blanco concludes.
The downside of this democratization is how every political niche and fringe group has found a culture via the Web to reinforce its already narrow views, polarizing parts of society despite the widened horizon.
The company's Stamford project was by far its most ambitious undertaking to date, and, because of its size, at least as near to the fringes of the Antares niche as the mansions had been.
Modern climate scientists, by contrast, usually see geoengineering research as niche, if not fringe, stuff.
But he's doing so at a time when culture's transgressive fringe is just one more niche market.
He's also been working right through eSports' rise from a niche attraction on the fringes of the games market to its current status as a cultural phenomenon ready to happen – if you don't feel it's exploding already.
A generation of people from the countryside came to settle here in the 1980s and 90s, trying to carve a niche for themselves on the fringe of Mexico's rapidly transforming, globalised economy.
Sadly, the threshold for success is far different on broadcast TV, so Fringe will always be viewed as a niche performer with a small but rabid fan base".
