An artist is trying to exorcise the spirit of al Qaeda from the German apt where Mohammed Atta lived: Stephan Hoffstadt, the Berlin-based artist, said his aim was to bring normality back to the four-room flat at Marienstrasse 54 in southern Hamburg, which has been unoccupied since the attacks. Hoffstadt’s …

Final vote was: Ayes – 72, Noes – 256. Check out this hilarious report on the debate: Under the watchful eye of Dave Green from NTK, several of us met up in the Lamb & Flag before the debate, and trooped in together. Impressively, we had about as many members …

Richard Harris dies at 72.

It's almost never enough. A new documentary on the music biz tonight on the Sundance Channel.

What a sad day this is. David Hogberg, the nicest Republican policy freak you’d ever want to meet, met the uber-liberal Paul Wellstone a few years ago. His gracious remembrance can be found here: I met Senator Wellstone while I was still in graduate school at the University of Iowa. …

Regular visitor, major domo of TheComicsJournal.com, and cool guy Dirk Deppey has launched the new TCJ blog, Journalista! Journalista! covers the entire spectrum of the comics world, from the new breed of art comics to the children’s comics for which the medium is best known, from comic strips to editorial …

Fifteen years of "cinematic-electro-glam-disco-industrial-lounge-horror-porn" rock.

Chechen terror updates.

Google admits to blocking hate sites in France and Germany: Google, the popular Internet search engine, has excluded more than 100 Web sites from the French and German versions of its index under pressure from those nations’ governments, a new study has found. The sites include many devoted to white …

WSJ’s Daniel Henninger with another indictment of cable news melodrama: What in the name of Edward R. Murrow is going on here? Once upon a time, TV people wished upon a star that some day there would be stations devoted entirely to news so they could show just what real …