RTP-area local music and culture

[Mary Anne Barckhoff <barckhoff AT yahoo.com>]

After a four-month hiatus, Viva la Venus is back and ready to rock this 
weekend!  We'll  be playing Saturday night and Sunday evening - we hope you 
can join us for one of these events!

Saturday, September 25
The Tavern at New Hope Commons in Durham
10:00 PM
FREE! (tips appreciated)

Viva la Venus will play a full evening of originals and a few covers at this 
friendly, local sports bar located on Hwy 15/501 overlooking the New Hope 
Commons shopping center in Durham.   The atmosphere is low-key and there are 
plenty of dart boards and pool tables for additional fun.

Sunday, September 26
Carrboro Music Festival
Fitch Lumber Stage (Greensboro St., across from Harris Teeter)
5:00-5:45 PM
FREE!

Please stop by the Fitch Lumber stage at 5 PM to hear some Viva la Venus 
originals!  Visit the website at 
http://www.carrboromusicfestival.com/ for more information. 

For more information about these and other upcoming shows, visit our website 
at http://www.vivalavenus.com.

Thanks for your support!

Mary Anne, Wendy, Susan & Trey




Viva la Venus website: http://www.vivalavenus.com
Little Miss Messy website: http://www.littlemissmessy.net

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Amid all this speculation about what aspect of the business supports 
what, Jason helpfully points to an Inc. magazine article about the 
Starlite which lays it out in quick strokes. As far as I can tell, 
here's the business plan:

"The side businesses share space with the box office, projection booth, 
and concession stand in a squat cinder-block building. In an odd 
synergy, each draws customers to the others."

So, can we do away with the idea that one part of the business can be 
automatically isolated from the others, especially since no one seems 
to know for sure what Grove's balance sheet looks like. The Inc. 
article says only that Grove and Kathy Bednarz, "took over the 11-acre 
theater in 1987 but struggled to keep box-office receipts apace with 
expenses, especially in the winter." Assuming that "expenses" would 
include paying themselves, it doesn't follow that the movie theater 
doesn't net money. It may very well bring in a little net, just not 
enough to live on. Again, we don't know. But I'd be mighty surprised if 
they don't count on the monthly cash receipts coming from the drive-in 
-- cash is cash. Even with the flea market, without the movie traffic 
I'd guess that they'd have to expand both their gun shop and their 
video store in order to make up for lost revenue, and that assumes that 
they'd have sufficient round-the-week, non-flea-market-day patronage 
for those businesses at that location. That's a big assumption, 
especially since Grove himself said in the Inc. article that "each 
[business] draws customers to the others."

My point is only to say that I don't believe it ought to be assumed you 
can separate one of those businesses from all the others. Helping the 
drive-in business helps the whole business -- Grove says it himself in 
that Inc. article. I write this independent of my feelings about guns, 
and gun shops, and gun ownership, and gun violence.

d

p.s. The 506, as currently configured, would be a shitty bar without 
the music.


On Sep 21, 2004, at 10:11 AM, Brendan Love wrote:

> Just a thought: how long would the Local 506 (for example) stay in 
> business if they were not subsidizing the entertainment through 
> alcohol sales?  Is there anyone unfamiliar with the ruinous effects of 
> alcohol worldwide?  I think that in the main scheme of things, I am 
> willing to deal with the fact that our local drive-in is also a gun 
> shop.
>