Listening to Kenny G.

A new documentary focuses on the popular musician:

https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/05/entertainment/kenny-g-jazz-documentary-blake-cec/index.html

Preppy Style is Back!

Ave Maria - Leontyne Price and Herbert Von Karajan

The Women lawyers defending Ghislaine Maxwell

Interesting little story in Vanity Fair. I kind of wish I could see the trial now.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/12/meet-the-lawyers-trying-to-set-ghislaine-maxwell-free

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Why the mid 1960s was the Golden Age of Pop Music.

From this week's Spectator magazine, telling us what we already know:

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-the-mid-1960s-was-the-golden-age-of-pop-music

The Mayor of Rockefeller Center!

For two decades, Correll Jones has been a fixture as the main greeter at a bustling plaza in Midtown Manhattan. His company-issued business card reflects his status: “C.J. mayor of Rockefeller Center.”

And each winter, as countless visitors arrive to see the Christmas tree outside 30 Rockefeller Plaza, Mr. Jones essentially becomes the tree concierge.

In New York City, where doormen traditionally serve as everything from security guard to confidant, Mr. Jones, 59, holds one of the profession’s most prestigious posts. From now until the tree comes down in early January, he will dispense all of the particulars about it to those who ask: that this year’s version is a 79-foot-tall Norway spruce from Maryland decorated with 50,000 lights and a crystal-laden star that weighs nearly a half-ton.

If they inquire further, he may tell them the tree is almost 90 years old and was cut down “at the end of its life.”

Just a fabulous article today on the man who greets visitors to the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree and does so much more to be one of the faces of NYC.
So good it's worth the price of the subscription to read it.

https://nyti.ms/3omoMwN

O Holy Night - Leontyne Price and Herbert Von Karajan

Henry Winkler to auction off his 'Fonz' jacket!

It's for a charity that benefits families separated at the border:

https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/04/us/winkler-fonz-happy-days-jacket-trnd/index.html

Is Private Equity overrated?

Interesting article on private equity funds in the NYT Dealbook newsletter today (I don't know if it's paywalled). They are difficult to value until they are liquidated after ten years. The internal rate of return is easily manipulated. Are they better investments than stock index funds? Maybe not now, if they ever were.





Is Private Equity Overrated? https://nyti.ms/3djYiFR