Every year the fall/winter holiday season starts just a little bit sooner: our local Wal-mart had out Halloween candy, costumes and decorations by the first of September. I’m not sure who is buying Halloween candy two months before the fact, unless they plan to eat it themselves, since I am …

It’s a ripsnorting, ’60s style, “give me an F,” punks and folkies wailing, no-makeup-wearing Cindy Sheehan agitating, bring the troops home now, my mother-in-law and the other hippies will be there, good old anti-war rally and free concert as Operation Ceasefire seeks to rattle the windows of power tomorrow, Saturday, …

Even as Hurricane Rita loomed before the Gulf Coast, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin J. Martin told a hearing of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation yesterday that the nation’s emergency responders require a mobile, wireless system that enables them to communicate with one another in times …

The BBC show Horizon tackles a ripping good scientific controversy tonight: were the astonishingly small, 18,000 year-old adult human remains found on the isolated Indonesian island of Flores last year a previously unknown species of human, Homo floresiensis, or were they the benighted remains of a modern human with the …

The bourgeois bandwagon is steaming along at full speed in China, as, spurred by government efforts to further boost average per-capita living space and private home ownership, residential building construction activity will advance at an estimated 8.8 percent annual pace in real terms through 2009, greatly outperforming other major national …

A hearty congratuations to Shaun Daily upon reaching the first anniversary of his news and commentary webcast show SUBJECT 2 DISCUSSION! Tonight’s anniversary show airs at 6pm PST, 9pm EST LIVE on LVROCKS.COM – guests this week will be Joe Gandelman from The Moderate Voice in the first hour, and …

The Red Carpet beckons and surely you would look better sitting there than the dufuses pictured above. For one week, from noon PST September 19 until noon PST September 26 (yes, that means now), fans can enter a random online drawing to win one of 300 bleacher seats available to …

In the better-late-than-never category, so thunderstruck was I by my experience at the Future of Music Coalition’s ’05 Policy Summit last week in Washington, DC that I am just now getting caught up. In particular I had the great good fortune of moderating the session on “How to Podcast and …

Country star Kenny Chesney, 37, spoke this week with Country Weekly magazine about his recently announced split with Oscar-winning actress Renee Zellweger, 36, (more here and here) after just four months of marriage. Zellweger filed papers asking for an annulment on the grounds of “fraud,” but said late last week …

In some ways the Emmy Awards for excellence within the television industry bring up the rear among the four major awards shows. The Oscars, Grammys, and Tonys all have a glitz and performance appeal beyond the Emmys, which is essentially a TV show about TV. Nonetheless, this year’s show has …