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• 36 Fab Gear

  Reading Andy Babiuk's "Beatles Gear: All the Fab Four's Instruments, from Stage to Studio", it's obvious the impact the Beatles made on musical instruments in the 1960s.

  in Books — by Ed Driscoll — on Dec 06, 2002

• 35 Roone Arledge Dead at 71

  Roone Arledge, creator of Monday Night Football and producer of ABC's Wide World of Sports, and later president of ABC's news division, died today at age 71.

  in Video — by Ed Driscoll — on Dec 05, 2002

• 34 Lost His Chops

  Laim Gallagher of Oasis doesn't seem to get it: It's important for a musician to gain new chops instead of losing them.

  in Music — by Ed Driscoll — on Dec 02, 2002

• 33 Mike Stern at the Iridium

  Mike Stern, an electric guitarist who once played with Miles Davis, and whose jazz-rock style has a firm emphasis on the latter half of that equation, is nearing the end of a week-long engagement at the Iridium Jazz Club in Manhattan.

  in Music — by Ed Driscoll — on Nov 30, 2002

• 32 The Bad Old Days, Revisited

  To go back in time to the America of the mid 1960s is to understand just how "different" from the accepted common wisdom of the day Ronald Reagan thought.

  in Books — by Ed Driscoll — on Nov 25, 2002

• 31 Lunch, Cigars, and The Final Solution

  Picture 15 men sitting around a large dining table in a country home. They discuss administrative issues, and equipment and personnel shortages. Sound like the board of General Motors on a country retreat? No, these 15 men are planning to murder every Jew in Europe.

  in Video — by Ed Driscoll — on Nov 20, 2002

• 30 Law & Order arrives on DVD

  The new Law & Order DVD is a look at the show's first season, when it was a cop show with all of the fat cut out: no Ferraris, no fun in the sun, no cops wearing silk suits, no wall-to-wall Jan Hammer soundtrack, no extraneous background B.S. from the characters. Heck, no extraneous B.S., period.

  in Video — by Ed Driscoll — on Nov 04, 2002

• 29 The Antidote to Amtrak: The Napa Valley Wine Train

  If your idea of great railroad dining is sitting in a generic Amtrak car and being served a styrofoam hamburger and a warm Diet Coke, you haven't ridden on this train!

  in Culture — by Ed Driscoll — on Oct 31, 2002

• 28 Rapper "Jam Master Jay", Member of Run DMC Killed In Shooting

  AP reports that the rapper "was shot in the head at a recording studio in the New York City borough of Queens."

  in Music — by Ed Driscoll — on Oct 31, 2002

• 27 Good News For Pink Floyd Fans: New DVDs in 2003

  A legendary "midnight movie" is coming to DVD, and a whopper of a best-selling album to DVD-Audio next year.

  in Music — by Ed Driscoll — on Oct 26, 2002