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Street Vendor Turns Concert Baklava Sales Into a $70,000-a-Month Business

In September 2021, Jacob Komarow impulsively bought 3 trays of baklava on his way to a Phish concert in California, intending to resell them to fellow fans. When a friend doubted he could sell all 3 trays, Komarow bet that he could. The experiment became the starting point for Good…

The Times of India · Oct 14

A concert bet turned 3 baklava trays into a $20,000-a-month business

Jacob Komarow, famously known as the 'Baklava Guy', turned a simple concert bet into a successful enterprise, Good Baklava. This innovative business now rakes in over twenty thousand dollars each month, thanks to its delicious pastries imported from Turkey. With various locations throughout the city and an online platform, his…

The Times of India · Sep 21

Pass the pit diapers! Why are fans wetting themselves to stand front row at concerts?

Olivia Rodrigo, Noah Kahan and Morgan Wallen have all dealt with audience effluence in recent weeks – but that’s only one part of a fearsome subculture that has built up around fandom, endurance and ‘getting barrier’

The Guardian - UK · Jul 22

Phish announce nine-date residency at Las Vegas Sphere

Jam band veterans Phish return to Las Vegas after making their Sphere debut in 2024

Louder · Dec 2, 2025

“It’s so hard when you come in to bands like Grateful Dead and the Allman Brothers where the fans actually care who the bass player is”: How Oteil Burbridge set about replacing Phil Lesh to become Dead & Company’s new singing bass hero

Burbridge played with The Allman Brothers and Tedeschi Trucks Band before joining Dead & Company alongside guitarist John Mayer

Guitar World · Nov 7, 2025

“On a guitar, it's built so weird with that one string in the wrong position, and so everybody plays the same crap all the time”: Phish's Trey Anastasio thinks all guitar music sounds the same – so he radically switched up his songwriting process

Anastasio says that, in an effort to push compositional boundaries, he writes a lot of his guitar parts on piano

Guitar World · Nov 3, 2025

Nectar's, the Vermont venue that launched Phish, closes on a quiet note after 50 years

The iconic Vermont venue known for launching the jam band Phish and fostering a variety of music and musicians has closed its doors after 50 years

The Independent UK · Oct 4, 2025

Phish 'deeply saddened' after one person fatally stabbed and two injured outside concert

Phish have paid tribute after one person died and two were injured outside their concert in Virginia at the weekend.

BANG Premier · Sep 22, 2025

Phish release statement after stabbing incident outside show leaves one dead and two injured

The incident occurred outside the Hampton Coliseum in Hampton, Virginia

Louder · Sep 22, 2025

‘We have a high appetite for risk’: inside King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard’s historic EU tour

Residencies in storied venues from a panopticon prison to an ancient amphitheatre gave an appropriate backdrop to the Australian band’s existential new record

The Guardian - UK · Jun 24, 2025