Kickstarter Takes Movie From Bankrupt To Sundance

Kickstarter Takes Movie From Bankrupt To Sundance
For those who felt that Kickstarter – the crowd-sourcing investment site that allows artists to own their own work – was little more than a vanity press for the digital age, meet Matthew Lessner. His new movie, The Woods is headed to Sundance, and he literally couldn’t have done it without the site. After funding […]
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Consumers make trade-offs as gas prices rise
Americans are starting to watch their spending more carefully as gasoline prices stay at levels not seen since October 2008.
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Palm Springs Considers Historic Status for Grant Home
The city of Palm Springs is expected to make the location of the former Cary Grant estate a historical site at Wednesday’s City Council meeting. The property, which is in the city’s Movie Colony neighborhood at 928 Avenida Palmas, should be approved as a historical location by the council at its 6 p.m. meeting. There also will be a presentation of the Office of Sustainability’s annual report at …
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