The Monterey County Herald Food Writer Mike Hale asked in his Thursday, September 27 GO! article whether the full 2007 calendar of events has not lead to “event-fatigue” and “wallet fatigue.” Hale cited the “sticker shock” associated with The Carmel Authors & Ideas Festival at $500 per ticket. He also noted that the event organizer is “giving away tickets to schools and writing groups;” presumably because the Festival was not a sold-out event.
Additionally, Hale noted the Faces of Hope event at Tehama Golf and Country Club for Rising International at $500 per ticket. And the upcoming 2008 Pebble Beach Food and Wine event with prices ranging from $995 to $4,750 per packaged event.
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Even The Carmel Pine Cone noted “unfamiliarity with the event proved to be an obstacle to ticket sales.” And Festival organizer Jim McGillen stated that ticket sales were “a little tough.” Corroborating The Herald writer Mike Hale, Jim McGillen also stated that “virtually every school in the community has students participating this weekend.” Furthermore, according to The Monterey County Herald Staff Writer Marc Cabrera, Jim McGillen stated “That’s one of the biggest mistakes we made, the ticket price.”
Tickets to the Authors & Ideas Festival can still be purchased online through the Carmel Authors & Ideas Festival web site, http://www.carmelauthors.com/.
2 comments:
Plagiarism & hush money. Not the kind of author one would expect at an Authors Festival. Princeton historian and former American Historical Association president Robert Darnton stated “If she is organizing a P.R. campaign to exculpate herself, that strikes me as unprofessional conduct.” But that is exactly what she did and she succeeded. The author: Doris Kearns Goodwin. Goodwin plagiarized several passages from Lynne McTaggart’s 1983 book, Kathleen Kennedy: Her Life and Times into her 1987 book, The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys. The secret payoff only became public knowledge in 2002, 15 years after the plagiarism. Then, Goodwin said “the whole understanding was supposed to be confidential just because of the nature of it.”
Doris Kearns Goodwin plagiarized, paid hush money and then launched a PR campaign to rehabilitate her image. At least Harvard did the right thing! A member of the Board of Overseers, she was forced off the Board after the Harvard Crimson called for her resignation.
The penalty for plagiarism is not what it used to be and is practically nonexistent today. Heck, Rich plagiarized anda-burghardt material, relabeled it staff report and signed his name to it. Unfortunately, the incompetent, unethical fool was not dismissed then. By the way, a 1.9 million dollar annual surplus is proof of incompetent city management, not a happy windfall. Carmel voters are being played and we don’t have the smarts to realize it and the character to do something about it.
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