July 14, 2003 Archive

Video

• BBC America shows doc Friday on Jessica Lynch

  in Video — by Steve Rhodes — on Jul 14, 2003

• Pirates of the Caribbean

  in Video — by Matt Moore — on Jul 14, 2003

• The Passion - The Trailer

  At last, a glimpse.

  in Video — by Sydney Smith — on Jul 14, 2003

• The Beverly Hillbillies Red state/Blue state comedy

  Nearly 40 years before the Y2K elections brought the issues into a new focus, the Clampetts spent most of a decade representing the blue states of middle America against the quintessentially red state behaviors of the denizens of Beverly Hills.

  in Video — by Al Barger — on Jul 14, 2003

Music

• Book Review: Al Stewart: The True Life Adventures of a Folk-Rock Troubadour by Neville Judd

  What do Yoko Ono, Paul Simon, Jimmy Page, and Tori Amos have in common? They are all part of the true-life adventures of folk-rock troubadour Al Stewart. The Scottish-born artist is profiled in a biography by English writer/researcher Neville Judd, who shows there is a lot more to Stewart than "Year of the Cat."

  Review in Music — by Natalie Davis — on Jul 14, 2003

• What's Opera Doc?

  Why I just can't get into classical music.

  in Music — by Chad Orzel — on Jul 14, 2003

• Woody Guthrie's birthday

  Besides just generally being a legendary personnae, Guthrie wrote surely the greatest commie patriotic anthem ever, "This Land Is Your Land."

  in Music — by Al Barger — on Jul 14, 2003

• Visit "The Rubber Room" with Porter Wagoner

  Reading this description, I could imagine some would-be hipsters taking this song for mere camp. They would be wrong.

  in Music — by Al Barger — on Jul 14, 2003

• Rakim's Album to Drop Soon

  in Music — by Madison — on Jul 14, 2003

• Pareles Defends Dylan

  in Music — by Eric Olsen — on Jul 14, 2003

• Glastonbury stats

  in Music — by Marty Dodge — on Jul 14, 2003

• This is a shock...

  in Music — by Marty Dodge — on Jul 14, 2003

• Avril's entrance delayed

  Beyonce remains all powerful as big names come a cropper in the UK singles chart; meanwhile, in the albums chart, Beyonce remains all powerful...

  in Music — by Simon B — on Jul 14, 2003

• New Sacred Cow - Kenna

  Ethiopian-born Kenna releases his first album on Fred Durst's Flawless label

  in Music — by Vivian St.George — on Jul 14, 2003

Books

• McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales

  I'm a big fan of plot-driven stories. On the other hand, though, I tend to prefer my thrilling tales without manifestoes attached...

  in Books — by Chad Orzel — on Jul 14, 2003

Sci/Tech

• The "Spanish Shawn Fanning"

  in Sci/Tech — by Eric Olsen — on Jul 14, 2003

• Dammed File Sharing

  in Sci/Tech — by Eric Olsen — on Jul 14, 2003

• Cremation: The Dead Burn Concert CDs

  in Sci/Tech — by Eric Olsen — on Jul 14, 2003

• DMCA "is a very wrongheaded, stupid act, and it's got a lot of people scared''

  in Sci/Tech — by Eric Olsen — on Jul 14, 2003

• Get Used to It

  in Sci/Tech — by Eric Olsen — on Jul 14, 2003

• Howard Dean to guest blog for Lawrence Lessig

  Lessig: "[P]lease don't read anything into this more than the obvious: This is yet another way in which the Dean campaign has understood something about the net."

  in Sci/Tech — by Brian Flemming — on Jul 14, 2003

Politics

• Border Radio

  in Politics — by Eric Olsen — on Jul 14, 2003

• Pareles Defends Dylan

  in Politics — by Eric Olsen — on Jul 14, 2003

• The Beverly Hillbillies Red state/Blue state comedy

  Nearly 40 years before the Y2K elections brought the issues into a new focus, the Clampetts spent most of a decade representing the blue states of middle America against the quintessentially red state behaviors of the denizens of Beverly Hills.

  in Politics — by Al Barger — on Jul 14, 2003

Culture

• The New "N" Word

  I can hear the Democrats cringing now. Ralph Nader, who ran for US president on the Green ticket in 2000, has not yet turned his back on the notion of tossing his hat into the ring for 2004.

  in Culture — by Natalie Davis — on Jul 14, 2003