Bueno anonymous, tengo que reconocer que ahí coincido con el Salsa. Mis preferidos son los cortos donde no habla; la película donde hace de agente (si aunque no de Cuba, ni participa en un blog... esta es una información para los paranoides) me parece pésima. Me preguntaba si iba de vacaciones a La Habana , por aquello de que aquí, o metemos la geografía regional o el tema esta condenado. Saludos
como ya no esta en el opening, el topico del performing art center (PAC) de miami, pues como este post es de cultura, aqui les dejo lo que acaba de publicar en breaking news the miami herald: el PAC necesita ahora mismo varios milloncitos para seguir operando.
parece que los mas de 300 millones que se fueron por encima del budget de construccion no son suficientes.
arriba las manos que vienen los bandoleros!
aqui esta:
Arts center running out of money BY DANIEL CHANG AND CHARLES RABIN dchang@MiamiHerald.com The Carnival Center for the Performing Arts, borrowing from its future to combat cost overruns and lackluster attendance, will run out of money by mid-May unless it gets a $4 million cash infusion.
Center administrators have been using money from advance ticket sales to cover expenses. They said on Wednesday that they will ask Miami-Dade County commissioners for more money next month and have applied for a bank loan to pay bills and cover the costs of future shows.
If they don't get the money, administrators have a ''disaster plan'' ready that would close the $472.97 million center this summer for 30 days, lay off staff and liquidate assets, CEO Michael Hardy told The Miami Herald in a meeting Wednesday. The chances of the center closing are ''zero percent,'' Hardy said. ``But we'd be irresponsible if we didn't have [a plan].''
The most likely scenario is that the county, which owns the building, will make up the shortfall by allocating additional hotel bed tax money, County Manager George Burgess said. In the long term, Carnival Center administrators say they will cut costs and seek more funding through the bed tax and community redevelopment dollars.
Higher-than-expected costs for utilities, security, maintenance and insurance have led to a $3 million budget deficit through February, compared to the budgeted $150,000 deficit. Ticket revenues are 44 percent below projections.
In a meeting Wednesday with Miami Herald editors and reporters, representatives of the Carnival Center and Miami-Dade County emphasized future funding would come from four sources: ticket sales; donations; community redevelopment dollars; and bed tax money.
PAC Trust Chairman Parker Thomson called the center ''an unqualified artistic success'' and said attendance had been diluted by an overload of shows in an effort to reach the diverse South Florida community.
''We are not getting sufficient Hispanic attendance,'' he said.
The center, which includes the 2,400-seat Sanford and Dolores Ziff Ballet Opera House, the 2,200-seat John S. and James L. Knight Concert Hall, and the 200-seat Studio Theater, is ''the most complex structure ever built here,'' Burgess said.
It's premature to sound alarms about the Carnival Center, he added, because it marks Miami-Dade's first attempt to operate and manage such a venue, and administrators are still learning.
''This thing is not even out of diapers yet,'' Burgess said.
Thomson and Burgess also said it was unfair to expect the Carnival Center to hit its budget for the first year because the initial numbers were based on comparisons to other performing arts centers.
''I think it's . . . way too early to hit the panic button,'' Burgess said. ``You're not going to know what the budget will be the day the facility opens.''
In its first year, the Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts in West Palm Beach missed its budget by $500,000, said Director Judy Mitchell. The Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Fort Lauderdale was off by $100,000 to $200,000, according to then-Executive Director Bill Farkas. Both opened in 1992.
To lower expenses, Carnival Center administrators, working with county officials, have rebalanced the air-conditioning system by adding temperature sensors to correct hot and cold spots. They also are looking for ways to cut security, engineering and maintenance costs.
Thomson said foundation members are working to shore up the Carnival Center's reputation. Their main priority: finding a long-term parking solution. The center has relied on valet parking and a network of surface lots and garages, but patrons have complained about hourlong waits for valet service and long walks from remote lots.
Hardy vowed not to repeat the mistakes of the Coconut Grove Playhouse, which closed last year with more than $4 million in debt and failed to refund money to season-ticket holders and pay staff and creditors.
Indeed, Hardy compared the center's opening and Miami's current growth to the building boom that saw New York City build Carnegie Hall, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the American Museum of Natural History, the Bronx Zoo and the subway between 1879 and 1899.
¡JAJAJ! “humor nórdico” esa si que está buena. La primera vez que vi a Mr Bean fue en Toronto, en el año 1996 (ó 98 no recuerdo) y la realidad es que era muy popular allí... pero en fin, para gusto ¡colores!
Anonymous hermano, después de leer tu comentario me tuve que hacer un café y aun sigo sin entender. Si aquí pudiera poner emoticones asumía sin complejo el de Yahoo que tiene cara de tonto, con la boca abierta... ¿qué fue lo que quisiste decir, bro? ¿qué tienen que ver el humor nórdico, Mr Bean y la dignidad?
sus episodios, en los cuales no habla ni una palabra, todo es cara, gestos, mimica, son increiblemente buenos.
ResponderEliminarese episodio de la recepcion a la reina isabel, o del hotel que renta que no tiene bano son increibles.
tenemos el DVD aqui en la casa y siempre nos divertimos viendolos.
¿En La Habana?
ResponderEliminarEchale salsita tiene el gusto jodio,porque para meterse al comico este hay que tener gandinga.
ResponderEliminarBueno anonymous, tengo que reconocer que ahí coincido con el Salsa. Mis preferidos son los cortos donde no habla; la película donde hace de agente (si aunque no de Cuba, ni participa en un blog... esta es una información para los paranoides) me parece pésima. Me preguntaba si iba de vacaciones a La Habana , por aquello de que aquí, o metemos la geografía regional o el tema esta condenado.
ResponderEliminarSaludos
aretino, el pobre anonimo de las 10:56 AM, bastante que habla, camina y sabe chapurrear en una computadora.
ResponderEliminarAretino y salsita parece que viven en Europa.Se contagiaron con el humor nordico.
ResponderEliminarcomo ya no esta en el opening, el topico del performing art center (PAC) de miami, pues como este post es de cultura, aqui les dejo lo que acaba de publicar en breaking news the miami herald:
ResponderEliminarel PAC necesita ahora mismo varios milloncitos para seguir operando.
parece que los mas de 300 millones que se fueron por encima del budget de construccion no son suficientes.
arriba las manos que vienen los bandoleros!
aqui esta:
Arts center running out of money
BY DANIEL CHANG AND CHARLES RABIN
dchang@MiamiHerald.com
The Carnival Center for the Performing Arts, borrowing from its future to combat cost overruns and lackluster attendance, will run out of money by mid-May unless it gets a $4 million cash infusion.
Center administrators have been using money from advance ticket sales to cover expenses. They said on Wednesday that they will ask Miami-Dade County commissioners for more money next month and have applied for a bank loan to pay bills and cover the costs of future shows.
If they don't get the money, administrators have a ''disaster plan'' ready that would close the $472.97 million center this summer for 30 days, lay off staff and liquidate assets, CEO Michael Hardy told The Miami Herald in a meeting Wednesday. The chances of the center closing are ''zero percent,'' Hardy said. ``But we'd be irresponsible if we didn't have [a plan].''
The most likely scenario is that the county, which owns the building, will make up the shortfall by allocating additional hotel bed tax money, County Manager George Burgess said. In the long term, Carnival Center administrators say they will cut costs and seek more funding through the bed tax and community redevelopment dollars.
Higher-than-expected costs for utilities, security, maintenance and insurance have led to a $3 million budget deficit through February, compared to the budgeted $150,000 deficit. Ticket revenues are 44 percent below projections.
In a meeting Wednesday with Miami Herald editors and reporters, representatives of the Carnival Center and Miami-Dade County emphasized future funding would come from four sources: ticket sales; donations; community redevelopment dollars; and bed tax money.
PAC Trust Chairman Parker Thomson called the center ''an unqualified artistic success'' and said attendance had been diluted by an overload of shows in an effort to reach the diverse South Florida community.
''We are not getting sufficient Hispanic attendance,'' he said.
The center, which includes the 2,400-seat Sanford and Dolores Ziff Ballet Opera House, the 2,200-seat John S. and James L. Knight Concert Hall, and the 200-seat Studio Theater, is ''the most complex structure ever built here,'' Burgess said.
It's premature to sound alarms about the Carnival Center, he added, because it marks Miami-Dade's first attempt to operate and manage such a venue, and administrators are still learning.
''This thing is not even out of diapers yet,'' Burgess said.
Thomson and Burgess also said it was unfair to expect the Carnival Center to hit its budget for the first year because the initial numbers were based on comparisons to other performing arts centers.
''I think it's . . . way too early to hit the panic button,'' Burgess said. ``You're not going to know what the budget will be the day the facility opens.''
In its first year, the Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts in West Palm Beach missed its budget by $500,000, said Director Judy Mitchell. The Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Fort Lauderdale was off by $100,000 to $200,000, according to then-Executive Director Bill Farkas. Both opened in 1992.
To lower expenses, Carnival Center administrators, working with county officials, have rebalanced the air-conditioning system by adding temperature sensors to correct hot and cold spots. They also are looking for ways to cut security, engineering and maintenance costs.
Thomson said foundation members are working to shore up the Carnival Center's reputation. Their main priority: finding a long-term parking solution. The center has relied on valet parking and a network of surface lots and garages, but patrons have complained about hourlong waits for valet service and long walks from remote lots.
Hardy vowed not to repeat the mistakes of the Coconut Grove Playhouse, which closed last year with more than $4 million in debt and failed to refund money to season-ticket holders and pay staff and creditors.
Indeed, Hardy compared the center's opening and Miami's current growth to the building boom that saw New York City build Carnegie Hall, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the American Museum of Natural History, the Bronx Zoo and the subway between 1879 and 1899.
''It's our time,'' he said.
¡JAJAJ! “humor nórdico” esa si que está buena. La primera vez que vi a Mr Bean fue en Toronto, en el año 1996 (ó 98 no recuerdo) y la realidad es que era muy popular allí... pero en fin, para gusto ¡colores!
ResponderEliminarAretino, no es paranoia. Lastima que algunos se presten para el jueguito sin atenerse a las consecuencias.
ResponderEliminarHay que tener aunque sea un poco de dignidad!
Anonymous hermano, después de leer tu comentario me tuve que hacer un café y aun sigo sin entender. Si aquí pudiera poner emoticones asumía sin complejo el de Yahoo que tiene cara de tonto, con la boca abierta... ¿qué fue lo que quisiste decir, bro? ¿qué tienen que ver el humor nórdico, Mr Bean y la dignidad?
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