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The Sex Pistols hit the road this summer – will the road hit back? It is pointless to try to confront an antagonist such as Lydon in an interview format, especially a timed interview format: As first reported here, the cross-country, 13-date trek will launch Aug. 20 in Boston. The …

We mentioned back in May this was coming. In the interim they seem to have addressed the disposal problem: Set to roll out in September with eight titles in four markets, Disney’s new EZ-D DVD self-destructs 48 hours after the purchaser opens the special airtight package. The disc is composed …

I can think of worse ways to spend a few days in central Texas in August: Raz on the Braz August 7 – 9, 2003 Buck’s on the Brazos It’s Terry Rasor’s Birthday Bash! Performing: Billy Joe Shaver / Davin James / John Nitzinger / Larry Joe Taylor /Tommy Alverson …

A classic collection of "nasty 50's r-and-b"

Forbes compares the media legends and finds the Times still ahead in key categories, but the Post had a good year and the Times suffered through its worst in some time, maybe ever: Then came The New York Times’ annus horribilis. The Jayson Blair scandal germinated quietly enough, with the …

Brad Stone thinks he knows why The League film sucks: One of the film’s problems, and the comic book’s strengths, is enormously relevant in an age of rampant online file-sharing and courtroom wars over extension of the copyright term. In the comic book, Moore shows the benefit of having a …

Several FCC commissioners, including Chairman Powell, figure the private sector looks pretty good about now: In the Senate last week, seven Republicans joined 28 Democrats to schedule a rare “resolution of disapproval” to overturn new FCC rules that would let companies like News Corp. and Viacom expand their media holdings …

Of course it can only be terrible when someone’s pet is eaten by coyotes. But if the pet is Sharon Osbourne’s black Chihuahua, Lulu, well, it’s hard to resist a quick, muffled chuckle. I don’t believe Chihuahuas are real dogs anyway – they clearly have rodent blood. “It’s so heartbreaking,” …

Bruce Lee died 30 years ago tomorrow at 32. I remember vividly watching Fists of Fury and The Chinese Connection, dubbed into English, at the old Warners movie theater in San Pedro in ’72 before we moved to Ohio. I thought he was magical, immortal, the coolest – he made …

National Association of Broadcasters, NPR, others dead wrong: Results have been released from a long anticipated engineering study ordered by Congress — a study designed to determine whether small community radio stations could cause interference to the signals of full power broadcasters. The study, conducted by an independent testing company …