Network to continue documentary probing links between swelling and retardation: “The Anna Nicole Show” will return to E! for a second season next year, the network said Thursday. Despite condemnation from critics and a sharp decrease in viewers after its highly rated premiere, “Anna” emerged as a solid performer for …

Microsoft – a law unto itself? Microsoft Corp. apologized to New York City for blanketing public property with hundreds of butterfly decals used to promote the company’s new MSN 8 Internet service. “We apologize to the City of New York and the people of New York City,” Yusuf Mehdi, the …

Grass roots work-arounds are popping up all around the music biz. It isn’t just the major labels that are failing the needs of many music fans: At the end of a tree-lined cul-de-sac in Falls Church, I park and make my way up the winding brick path to the front …

Is skipping commercials “stealing“? ReplayTV lawsuit against Hollywood: A federal court today [October 15, 2002] affirmed the right of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) to represent ReplayTV owners in their lawsuit against 28 motion picture and television industry companies. Craig Newmark of craigslist.org and four other ReplayTV customers are suing …

Art Garfunkel writes songs for the first time at 60: Now, the 60-year-old performer is trying to break out of that image as he makes his songwriting debut on his new album, “Everything Waits to Be Noticed.” “We have an image of ourselves, and we carry ourselves all through life …

Could this World Series be any better? Well, yes, the Indians could be in it, but other than that every element is there: two surprise, tenacious teams, the greatest home run hitter of all time doing what he does best (4 home runs and an over .700 onbase percentage for …

The Observer has an ongoing series on Kurt Cobain’s diaries, including images of the actual journals, and Barney Hoskyns’ essay on his importance: “There’s something wrong with that boy…” noted William Burroughs when, in 1993, Kurt Cobain dropped in to pay his respects in Lawrence, Kansas. ‘He frowns for no …

Steve Earle's Jerusalem.

AOL Time Warner to Build $483 Million Movie Studio in China.

Saturday 1 p.m. ET It’s very bad, but it could have been worse: The number of hostages killed after being held hostage by Chechen rebels in a Moscow theater rose to 90, the Russian Health Ministry said Saturday, according to Russian news agencies. Earlier, Russian officials said 67 hostages were …