Tag Archives: Entertainment

Mal. Zoe. Jayne. Wash. Inara. Simon. River. Kaylee. Shepherd Book. Serenity. If those 10 names don’t leave you shaking your head at the stupidity of FOX Network executives, Finding Serenity isn’t the book for you. Finding Serenity is a collection of essays exploring the short lived FOX Television series Firefly. …

Dusting off another obscure thirties era movie comedy. . .

Mark Evanier's latest ace collection of comics and pop culture essays. . .

Like Christopher Ricks, newly elected professor of poetry at Oxford, and the Warren Professor of Humanities at Boston University, who has a new book out on the subject that many might consider … granular: In a corner by the desk there is also a boom box. Mr. Ricks brings this …

Lawrence Lessig’s new book, Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity, is getting quite a bit of attention. We discussed it here yesterday, where you can also hear the entire book for free. Salon’s Farhad Manjoo takes a long look …

Walter Yetnikoff was a classic music industry player, until it all went wrong...

Clevelander Joe Eszterhas, Hollywood screenwriter more famous for being a dickhead than anything else, has a new memoir out about his complete change of life brought about by cancer of the larnyx, among other things. I’m glad he stopped smoking and drinking – good for him – but when the …

Using free to sell not-free via Altnet – the “first peer-to-peer network created to give consumers easy access to secure content that originates from content owners” – which piggybacks off of Kazaa: Altnet today announced that it has secured the exclusive distribution rights to artist and author Lee Jaffe’s never-been-seen-before …

Caroll Spinney, Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch for 34 years, has written a book: The 156-page book (Villard, $16.95) is for adults, not children, but Spinney figures most of his readers will have grown up with Sesame Street, or have children who watch it. At 69, he says he …

Nice overview of Napster history – did it really happen? – in LA Times excerpt from new book All the Rave: The Rise and Fall of Shawn Fanning’s Napster by Joseph Menn: It all began with a poor Boston-area kid who came west to Silicon Valley and started a revolution. …