Radio: the last refuge of superannuating rockers?
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Google Growth Now Just “Organic”
Stock drops as much as 15% on growth news before steadying.
Read More »George Michael Arrested on Drug Charges
Michael, 42, was arrested in London early Saturday morning after being found by police slumped over the wheel of a car.
Read More »Sex Pistols Snarl at Rock Hall Induction
I don’t think there is much argument that the Sex Pistols (Paul Cook, Steve Jones, Glen Matlock, Johnny Rotten, Sid Vicious) are the angriest and most iconoclastic artists elected into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Their very raison d’etre was to bite the hand that fed them, and …
Read More »Harry Potter and the Sweepstakes of iPod
Ironically technophilic contest heralds the arrival of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince in paperback.
Read More »Boomers’ Convention: Bill Clinton to Speak At Alternative Weeklies Gathering
Is Bill Clinton not the quintessential baby boomer, exemplifying the towering contradictions of a generation? Clinton, who will turn 60 this August, embodies the precocious intellectualism, professional competence, gregarious openness, and idealistic good will of the tumescent cohort born between 1946 and 1964; yet our 42nd president seems unable to …
Read More »IBM Announces Chip Breakthrough
Enables Moore's Law to continue uninterrupted well into the next decade.
Read More »Blogcritics on Presidents Day ’06
Presidents Day is little more than a three-day weekend and an excuse for retail promotions to most of us; something vaguely attached to the February birthdays of our most renowned presidents George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. But don’t all 43 chief execs, the men who have led our nation through …
Read More »Nickelodeon’s 19th Annual Kids’ Choice Awards
As Nickelodeon has seeped into the fabric of American childhood (and parenthood) over the last two and a half decades, the network’s annual Kids’ Choice Awards has taken on the stature of … a … really important kids’ award show … okay, a mini-Oscars. Jack Black, fresh off his obliquely …
Read More »Arrested Development: Too Big For Niche, Too Small For Mass?
I loved the first season of Arrested Development in ’03-’04; the particularity of its absurdity was sharp and richly detailed rendering its inventive satire on American values, the idle rich, the formerly idle rich, the formerly rich but still idle, and intra-family relationships telling as well as hilarious. The show …
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