The format rolls on, with the emphasis on providing quick-fire entertainment on waterfront tracks which provide a natural arena.
For empty-nesters, moving downtown has the obvious allure of trendy restaurants, ample entertainment, quick commutes and a spare bedroom in a place your kids will actually want to visit.
Sometimes our brains need a break and we want quick hits of entertainment that don't require too much thought, commitment, or attention span.
Scott Button, CEO of Unruly Media, believes that the chart will be a valuable resource to web users looking for a quick fix of entertainment: "Over three billion snack-sized videos are now being viewed every month on top video-sharing sites like YouTube, with millions more being added every month.
For instance, you cannot use Facebook to advertise "get-rich quick" schemes, adult entertainment and a dozen other questionable enterprises.
This week, in a Guardian books-blog posting, Alan Bissett discusses how the Internet — as well as media in general — distracts us from books with its everlasting supply of quick and easy entertainments.
Both sprang up after the invention of printing, but both have shown a phenomenal rate of growth to meet the demand for quick information and regular entertainment.
In this light, you might say that "Gatz" is for the reader, "The Donkey Show" for the reveler and "Sleep No More" for the children of a fragmented media culture, weaned on video games and quick bites of downloaded entertainment.
"Network types have grandiose ideas for the Web, but people just want specialized bits of entertainment in quick bursts," Hertzan says.
