Doesn't Winter Seem More Like Listing Season?

It's a little known fact outside of the industry: Summer is a news doldrum. Schools are mostly out, people are on vacation or otherwise hard to get ahold of, and basically, everything slows down. Even inside news periodicals, it's a little slow, what with people taking their own vacations. So ... if you're a self-respecting arts editor or reporter with a news hole to fill, where do you turn? You turn to that age-old standby, the list.

Now, as is obvious to regular readers of this blog, I love...