It is so easy to be carried along in the slipstream of writing, editing, commenting, etc., here that it’s takes special effort to just top and smell the bird of paradise already lodged in your nose. As of about NOW, Blogcritics is an official functioning Google News source, which is …

Ringo bashers: suck flam and stick this in your paradiddle. Ex-Beatle drummer Starr and comic book demigod Stan Lee (Spider-man, Incredible Hulk, X-men, Fantastic Four, Daredevil, etc, etc) — who between them are 147 years old — are teaming up on a new animated superhero series for TV, DVD, publishing …

The other shoe has dropped in the two-year investigation of rap label Murder Inc. (now called “The Inc.” for obvious PR reasons) — partly owned by Island Def Jam, a Universal Music label — for murder, money-laundering, gun charges and a variety of strong-arm tactics. Damn, these fuckers are unsavory: …

Wow, it’s old cohorts week around here for me. First, an article turned up about the current whereabouts and activities of possible Missing Link and longtime Cleveland music scenester Johan. Now, the always cool Cool Cleveland has an interview with Alternative Press (a publication for which I have written in …

Robert Bryce has some exceptionally interesting and encouraging news in Slate: a curious transformation is occurring in Washington, D.C., a split of foreign policy and energy policy: Many of the leading neoconservatives who pushed hard for the Iraq war are going green. James Woolsey, the former director of the Central …

On December 10, 2004 the Supreme Court agreed to hear the entertainment industry’s case against two file-sharing services, Grokster Ltd. and StreamCast Networks Inc (Morpheus), through which millions of people swap music and movies online, a decision that could decide the future of digital copyright rules and related technology for …

The full list of nominations for the 77th Academy Awards, to be held February 27: Best film The Aviator Million Dollar Baby Finding Neverland Ray Sideways Best actor Clint Eastwood – Million Dollar Baby Jamie Foxx – Ray Don Cheadle – Hotel Rwanda Johnny Depp – Finding Neverland Leonardo DiCaprio …

I like Michael Kinsley quite a bit even though I have evolved away from agreeing with him most of the time, to agreeing with him on the low end of some of the time. He has some judicious if retroactively self-serving thoughts on the demise of Crossfire, his former TV …

U2 (all kinds of news and reviews gathered here) will begin the first leg of their Vertigo/2005 world tour in San Diego on March, 28th 2005. The band’s 11th album, How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb has sold more than 8.5 million copies worldwide since its release November 23rd, 2004 …

One of the most important and insightful jazz writers alive, Gary Giddins, whose most recent book is Weather Bird – Jazz at the Dawn of its Second Century, a collection of his Weather Bird columns from the Village Voice, will be chatting live with all comers tomorrow, Wednesday January 26 …