Serious musician finds niche in comedy (The Toledo Blade)

Jazz is serious music — most of the time, anyway. One notable exception is when Pete Barbutti takes the stage, as he will do Saturday night as the featured guest artist with the Toledo Jazz Orchestra. Finding his niche as a “jazz comedian,” Barbutti is a serious musician who can’t help making people laugh. He was voted class clown and most popular at Scranton (Pa.) Tech High School. Barbutti’s ...

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Niche Media to Close Atlanta Peach (Mediaweek)

Niche Media Holdings is closing Atlanta Peach, the latest in a string of magazines that have folded as the economy has taken a sharp downward turn. Atlanta Peach’s December issue will be the last.

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Cross-Dress/Transgender Niche Retailer Beating the Recession (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)

Niche retailers, like Genie The Crossdress Store, are beating the recession odds by focusing on a tight targeted market. By retailing specifically to the transsexual, transgender, transvestite and crossdress community, Genie the Crossdress Store has seen an increase in sales when big box store are crying about poor sales.

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MARK PHELAN: Niche brand is exactly what Pontiac should be (Detroit Free Press)

General Motors' plan to make Pontiac a niche brand is a public acknowledgment of where the brand was already headed, and a move that frees Pontiac to fill the role that suits it best in GM's lineup.

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Niche Media Folds Atlanta Mag [Great Magazine Die-off] (Gawker)

Glossy city magazine publisher Niche Media had layoffs at several titles in October. Now the company has folded Atlanta Peach. Neither Niche Media nor the South can have nice things. [AJC]

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A year later, Amazon's Kindle finds a niche (CNN)

It has the curves of a Lamborghini, looks like something an astronaut might take into space and weighs only 10.3 ounces.

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New Carnegie Study Shows Niche Colleges Can Overcome Misperceptions and Boost Enrollment (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)

A new national study conducted by Carnegie Communications, a Massachusetts-based higher education research, communications and consulting firm, reveals critical challenges and opportunities for the country's niche colleges -- particularly in today's uncertain economic environment.

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