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Fixing Speech Intelligibility at Whitley Auditorium
svconline.com | 9 hours 39 minutes ago
North Carolina’s Elon University had an auditorium designed for a its huge pipe organ, but Whitley Auditorium was being used for a lot of other events, so they needed a sound system that could cope with its multi-use role.

UK Debut For HARMAN’s Studer Low-Cost Vista Digital Console and Compact Stagebox | The Briefing Room
blog.digitalcontentproducer.com | Feb 13, 2012
LONDON, United Kingdom — HARMAN’s Studer has extended its popular Vista 5 M2 range of digital broadcast and production consoles to include a 22-fader option, realising the lowest cost Vista ...

'The Navigator' Receives Rare Off-Off-Broadway Revival
www.backstage.com | Feb 10, 2012
The WorkShop Theater Company is reviving its New York Innovative Theatre Award-winning production of Eddie Antar's "The Navigator," beginning Feb. 11.

Super Bowl XLVI: Did This Year’s Show Live Up to the Hype? < PopMatters
www.popmatters.com | Feb 9, 2012
Arguably the biggest sporting event of the year (sorry, Olympics!), the Super Bowl telecast is usually the highest-rated program of the year. Did this years show live up to the hype?

PLSN | Clifton Taylor and the Fall for Dance Festival
www.plsn.com | Feb 9, 2012
April 2011 Issue PLSN Interview Clifton Taylor and the Fall for Dance Festival Tuesday, 12 April 2011 15:22 View Comments Clifton Taylor Provides a...

IsoAcoustics Introduces ISO·L8R155 Line of 'Floating' Speaker Stands
mixonline.com | Feb 7, 2012
Acoustic sound designer, Canadian inventor and IsoAcoustics founder Dave Morrison is launching ISO·L8R155, a line of speaker stands from IsoAcoustics that is said to maximize the full potential of audio speakers in virtually any listening environment. Thanks to a unique, patented isolation

Nominees for art direction
www.variety.com | Feb 3, 2012
Eye on the Oscars: Art Direction, Costume Design & Makeup

DVD Picks: 'Wings' : Monkey See : NPR
www.npr.org | Feb 1, 2012
With the silent film The Artist in competition for this year's Best Picture Oscar, Bob Mondello has been thinking about the pre-talkie era. As it happens, the last silent film to win for Best Picture has just been released on Blu-ray: the 1927 flying-ace epic Wings.

Making It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
www.blu-ray.com | Jan 31, 2012
One of the funniest star-studded comedies of all time, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World comes to Blu-ray with a wide release and The Silver Screen goes behind the scenes of the film with a history of the complete production and the story of how the film became famous for its different running times.

2012 Academy Award Nominations - By Movie - BigScreen Journal: The BigScreen Cinema Guide
www.bigscreen.com | Jan 24, 2012
The nominations for the 84th annual Academy Awards were announced earlier today by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Tom Sherak and actress Jennifer Lawrence, who was nominated...