Pete Mercer

2 weeks ago | corridor8.co.uk | Pete Mercer

Artists across our isle often find themselves well-acquainted with remnants of England’s industrial past. Though not necessarily by choice. Soaring property values and eye-watering rents mean that once-derelict Salfordian cotton mills now serve as cross-disciplinary arts studios, and car garages have become experimental music venues.

1 month ago | statmagazine.org | Pete Mercer

There exists an entire genre of cultural output which evades the coverage of the local authority curator — admittedly, a curator stretched thin and beholden to dreaded cost-benefit analyses — and ironically, it’s the genre most relevant to our daily lives: the bleak. If culture is collective experience, bleakness pervades English culture. The boring mundanity, the aching expanse of shattered bus shelters and patchwork pavements. The grit under your nails and the man loping his way into a Betfred.

Feb 25, 2025 | repertoiremag.com | Pete Mercer

February 25, 2025 – Amazon Web Services and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center announced a collaboration harnessing the power of artificial intelligence, high performance computing (HPC), and other cloud technology to accelerate breakthroughs in cancer. Leveraging AWS’s Cloud and AI Technology: AWS will provide its cloud computing resources and machine learning technologies to support MSKCC’s research, helping to manage large datasets, optimize AI models, and scale cancer-related innovations.

Feb 25, 2025 | repertoiremag.com | Pete Mercer

February 25, 2025 – Who will win the Repertoire Magazine Ad of the Year? April 2025’s Repertoire Issue is one you won’t want to miss for advertising opportunities: Each year, Repertoire hires an outside source, Signet Research, to send out a survey to distribution sales reps in the industry to rank YOUR ads. Click here to learn more in a video from Repertoire’s Scott Adams!The rankings are based on believability, attention-getting, quality of information, and more.

Feb 25, 2025 | repertoiremag.com | Pete Mercer

February 25, 2025 – Last March, more than 160 college students from 80-plus schools convened on Kennesaw State University’s campus for the National Collegiate Sales Competition (NCSC). The NCSC provides a venue for dedicated collegiate sales students to improve their skills and pursue career opportunities with top professional sales organizations. One of those NCSC competitors was Kennesaw State’s Tanner Ledford, who was nearing graduation.