(To be fair to MainStreet.com, we should note that it has been a lot less celebrity-obsessed since the departure in July of founding editor Caroline Waxler).
Kobalt Music Group has raised $140 million, with investors including London's Balderton Capital (formerly Benchmark Europe), Michael Dell's private investment firm MSD Capital (whose $25 million portion of the $140 million was announced in March, and includes the stake of founding investor Spark Ventures), and a number of other prominent investors that Kobalt is currently not making public.
According to statistics available through a link on Gawker and older statistics provided by a former Gawker employee, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to avoid Mr. Denton's wrath, the site logged about 700,000 page views in August 2003, the last month of the founding editor, Elizabeth Spiers.
The council elected her unanimously today following the resignation last month of the founding president, Fotis Kafatos.
Others of March's founding partners include longtime VCs Jim Armstrong, Sumant Mandal — both formerly of Clearstone Venture Partners — and Gregory Milken, a serial entrepreneur and board member of the Milken Institute.
Lyndon Woodside, music director of the Westchester Choral Society, presides over a reading of the Mozart Requiem on Aug. 7; on Aug. 14, John King, founding conductor of the New Choral Society of Westchester, leads both the Vivaldi Gloria and Beethoven's Mass in C Minor.
This past August, those founding females of hip-hop and some of the most important women in the rap music biz descended upon Martha's Vineyard for the second annual Summer Madness Music Festival & Conference.
Last month, Allman, a founding member of Allman Brothers Band, sued Unclaimed Freight, alleging the company lost the rights to tell his story after Jones died.
"This is one of the few times that women, who traditionally have not been big buyers of electronics, are very interested in the latest and the best," said April Anderton, founding editor of Digital Scrapbooking magazine.
It was blamed for the February killing of a founding member of the Salafi group Ahrar al-Sham and the group's leader in Aleppo, Muhammad Bahaiah, who had close connections with senior al-Qaida leaders.
