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Is Sacred Harp singing the next “authentic” style to be popularized? The Mount Pleasant Home Primitive Baptist Church on the outskirts of Birmingham is a long way from Hollywood, literally and figuratively. So it was a little strange one Sunday to hear a group of people in the tiny bare-walled …

Keen observers will note I haven’t been as omnipresent as usual here over the last several days. Besides a new baby and Christmas, I have been working on year-end stories for MSNBC. This one is a whopper – profiles on almost 30 entertainers who died in 2003: Some of the …

This kid has more teflon than a Ronald Reagan convention: Norway’s most famous computer whiz got an early Christmas present on Monday. An appeals court in Oslo upheld Jon Lech Johansen’s earlier acquittal on all counts of alleged copyright violations. A verdict in the case, which has caught international attention, …

Young TV audiences are watching later and later, many ignoring prime time altogether. This is kind of funny for me because over the last few years – as the trend has become more dramatic – I have been heading in the opposite direction, NEVER watching TV after 10pm other than …

The most anticipated film of the year is finally here. The King, He’s Back The Return of the King has been out for five days now, so the hard-core fans have mostly seen it already. Those who haven’t seen it are advised to skip the following, as it will be …

I haven’t decided if this is really cool, another milepost on the road to civilizational perdition, or just worthy of cold cost/benefit analysis weighing the price of a new IBM computer (about $1400) against the insanity inducement of having your computer screen break for a commercial every 20 minutes. In …

Couples Elvis Costello and Diana Krall, and Gwyneth Paltrow and Coldplay lead singer Chris Martin got hitched. Bobby Brown smacked Whitney Houston around (hasn’t she been watching those Halle Berry PSAs about abuse?). Elvis and Diana: The couple married Saturday night in a ceremony at Elton John’s mansion in Surrey, …

Part One of HBO's two-night theatrical fantasia hits all the right notes.

I haven’t written anything about 24 yet this year because there hasn’t been much to write about: I haven’t felt much emotional connection to any of the characters, there haven’t been any jaw-dropping surprises, I haven’t felt a REAL sense of threat, there hasn’t been all that much tension or …

All you remixers and those who would be remixers, here’s a cool incentive to get thee to the tracks: The Challenge is On, Remixers. A Contest of Skill. Show us Your Stuff! Mixman has teamed up with the Producers of “LADJ: The Movie“, Karmaloop, Remix Magazine, DJ.net and Nvidia to …