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The 1950 cookbook has a glove-compartment-sized pages which holds recipes from the menus of restaurants across America, each accompanied by a brief description and painting or drawing by a local artist which tell us about ford companyEs famous eating places. It was a promotional and visionary guide to lure people in their cars for an interstate highway experience.

The working lives of potters Barbara and Jim Larkin are discussed. The two run Fox Pass Pottery in rural Arkansas, and sometimes there seems to be a thin line separating their living space, working space, and the shop.

For those in the radio sector, life has never been more complicated. While the commercial industry last week launched its biggest move yet in the battle for listeners--in the form [...]

With Massive Attack riding high in the albums chart once more, it serves as a potent reminder of what a musical powerhouse the band's native Bristol was in the Nineties. [...]

The final quarter is always a crucial one for the music business, but this autumn holds more significance than usual. While the music industry mulls mergers and new business models, […]

Ron Carey may be a goner, but the reform movement inside the Teamsters lives on. The weekend before Ron Carey decided to step aside as president, the Teamsters for a [...]

It's election time in Teamsterland. This month, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters will hold its fourth nationwide vote in ten years, sending mail ballots to nearly 1.4 million workers so they can directly elect top leaders of their union. The incumbent president James Hoffa, no friend of real Teamsters reform, may win the balloting that begins October 9. Standing in Hoffa's way, as usual, is TDU, the Detroit-based network of Teamsters dissidents and its candidate, Tom Leedham, a feisty local officer from Portland, Oregon, who won 39 percent of the vote in a three-way race in 1998.

Although not many of the high end finishing technologies on display at Drupa have yet filtered down to the shopfloor, there are still plenty of affordable alternatives out there By [...]

It will come as a huge relief to anyone who has tried to get Printing World to pay attention to their press release to learn that this is my last [...]

Whoever or whatever caused the demise of J Howitt & Son remains unclear but the creditors still have to deal with the aftermath By Jim Larkin It was a humbling [...]

Whether you want to see the networked bindery in action, the latest developments in digital print finishing or state of the art guillotines, you'll be catered for in our list [...]

Andrew Webster bet someone big money he would not do another Drupa. He hasn't divulged whether he paid up in cash or by cheque By Jim Larkin If Drupa is [...]

There is a good deal of enthusiasm to test and buy Drupa's finishing wares, but mention of JDF and the networked bindery is conspicuous by its scarcity By Jim Larkin [...]

The pressure to perform at Drupa is immense and a major finishing force like Muller Martini must make sure it puts its chance away or face the consequences By Jim [...]

The article presents information on socio-political developments related to Detroit attorney James P. Hoffa. It was 1995 and Hoffa had just declared his candidacy for Teamsters president, a position then occupied by Ron Carey, who'd been elected in 1991 with help from Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU). Nevertheless, endowed with his father's famous name and instant media attention, he was the ideal front for old guard Teamsters officials trying to regain control of the union. Hoffa was turned away by the Teamsters in attendance, but not before getting into a shouting match with several female strikers from Diamond Walnut.

Calendars are a market with huge commercial benefits and to get a piece of the action you need to look at all areas of production, not just print quality By [...]

For a long time prepress has been targeted for investment, but manufacturers are setting up for Northprint anticipating that the time may now be right to redirect funds into finishing [...]

The Government stands accused of wasting taxpayers' money by using it to encourage printers to move to waterless By Jim Larkin The news that Government money is being used to [...]

If putting ink on paper is no longer enough to generate healthy profits, Documedia Solutions offers an interesting model for adding value By Jim Larkin Remember e-commerce? If you thought [...]

Clays, the Bungay book printer prides itself in the quality of its manufacturing By Jim Larkin When industry expert Tony Clark argued in these pages a few weeks ago that [...]

Eyes in the newspaper sector turn to the Ifra show in Barcelona to find out what's cooking By Jim Larkin A newspaper exhibition in glamorous Barcelona may seem a world [...]

This year's Printing World Golf Masters was the toughest but best yet By Jim Larkin Not for nothing has the Slaley Hall golf course been dubbed 'the Augusta of the [...]

Despite banks' protestations, printers feel that the finance sector views print as a liability. Venture capitalists certainly seem to view putting ink on paper dimly, preferring facilities management By Jim [...]

German uv supplier ISTMetz is on a crusade. It aims to convert the sheetfed world to uv curing By Jim Larkin IST Metz is something of a secret in the [...]

What is new about truck sides carrying advertisements? A lot if the Road Ads company is successful in its plans By Jim Larkin Here is a neat idea: how about [...]

'A Cry From the North' by T. Edward Nickens struck me as a tad antagonistic to energy industries. While conservation articles are important, they should be approached evenhandedly. Blocking energy [...]

Following an extensive review, the BBC has finalised its music strategy. Radio and music director Jenny Abramsky speaks exclusively to Music Week's Jim Larkin, explaining that the strategy is for [...]

When Xfm Manchester took to the air at 8am on March 15 with the Stone Roses' I Am The Resurrection in all its eight-minute glory, there could have been few [...]

As the live industry comes together this week for its annual gathering--the International Live Music Convention--it does so in rude health yet again. But the feel-good factor this year is [...]

Remember where you heard it: The Awards season drew to a close last week with the most important of them all--the annual Music Week Awards at the Grosvenor. But then [...]

Anyone reading the national press on Sunday or Monday morning last week could have been in no doubt--Live 8 was the greatest show of all time. Forget some of the [...]

It has looked a dubious prediction of late, but weather forecasters have long been telling us we are in for a long hot summer. For the sake of music fans, [...]

It is almost 7am and a freezing dawn is breaking on the outskirts of Rennes. The Breton town is home to Les Transmusicales, the French equivalent of Glastonbury--except it is [...]

Because of its longevity and importance to the industry, it is impossible to consider BBC TV's music output without singling out Top Of The Pops. The institution once considered a […]

Amid the hundreds of pages of BBC Charter Review submissions from the music industry, barely a handful deal specifically with the issue of television. Inevitable, perhaps, given the sheer volume […]

One of the most travelled and respected executives in the industry died last week, when Chrysalis deputy chairman and non-executive director Charles Levison lost a three-month battle against serious illness. [...]

It was suggested last week that ISPs and digital distributors should have to pay for a licence called the value recognition right to pay for the music they use. Is [...]

Former Pink Floyd managers Peter Jenner and Andrew King pay a tribute to the legendary Syd Barrett, who died last week. It is hard to exaggerate the importance of Syd [...]

Commercial radio is gearing up for a significant push into selling downloads, as it takes strides forward to harness the economic potential of the internet. At last week's Radio Academy [...]

Caption: Johnny Depp and Keira Knightly may bare grabbed most of the headlines as far as Leicester Square openings went last week, but it was by no means the only [...]