Bruce Springsteen is gearing up for his overtly political Vote For Change Tour: VOTE FOR CHANGE TICKETS AVAILABLE BUT GOING FAST The concerts featuring Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band/REM/Bright Eyes, and with a special guest appearance by John Fogerty, went on sale with great results this past Saturday …

Speaking of Islamists, yesterday the fundamentalist formerly known as Cat Stevens caused a London-to-Washington flight to be diverted to Maine: The plane was already in the air when US officials identified that the singer, whose name is now Yusuf Islam, was on one of their “watch lists”. United Airlines Flight …

Like real life, Iraq is a near-blinding mass of prismatic shards right now, the “real reality” of the situation very much depending upon your stance when the light shards hit you. War and Bush supporter Mark Steyn says things are “really” pretty good: Then there are the naysayers at the …

I would say this speaks volumes (registration required) about taking the fight to the enemy. When Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov visited Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on September 6, he had planned to complain about the usual litany: the stalled road map, Israel’s security fence, and the recently announced expansion …

I picture an “erotic writing workshop” as a combination of high school sex ed and a visit to the hot tub with the orotund and libidinous literature professors played by Will Ferrell and Rachel Dratch on Saturday Night Live – ridiculously arch and lubricious at the same time. But what …

Duh. We’ve only been saying this for 2+ years: reduce the price of digital music and they will come. The online music downoad services are competing with free – no matter how many people the RIAA sues, free is not going to go away. BUT there are real COSTS to …

Okay, we’ve gone and done it: Politics – beloved, behated, the source of most of the site’s roiling debate and confrontation, now has its own category. Whether you head straight for it or avoid it like the plague, it now stands alone. One of the most interesting and unique aspects …

Is the Miss America Competition – which airs tonight on ABC – an institution still relevant in the 21st century? I don’t really know but they are sure trying: Speedo today announced a two-year sponsorship making it the official swimsuit of the Miss America Competition. The 2004 Miss America contestants …

I was truly hoping, but my hope has proved unfounded: a 56 year-old man with a stroke in his past and a lengthy and extensive history of drug abuse should not have nine different drugs in his system – cocaine AND meth and the man had a flipping pace-maker? I …

At least until he is as ubiquitous as say, the Beatles, I don’t think I can say too much about Sam Bisbee. He is just an excellent and highly appealing alt-pop-rock singer-songwriter with an expressive but never maudlin voice, sharp lyrics about actual life, AND he is a super nice …