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New machine can turn almost anything into oil: “This is a solution to three of the biggest problems facing mankind,” says Brian Appel, chairman and CEO of Changing World Technologies, the company that built this pilot plant and has just completed its first industrial-size installation in Missouri. “This process can …

I was a weird kid and started reading songwriting and production credits on the very firs records I bought in the late ’60s. I thought names “Boudleaux and Felice Bryant” among the most exotic I had ever encountered when I saw them in conjunction with some of my favorite Everly …

Boss calls anti-Chick campaign “un-American” on his website: The Dixie Chicks have taken a big hit lately for exercising their basic right to express themselves. To me, they’re terrific American artists expressing American values by using their American right to free speech. For them to be banished wholesale from radio …

Paul Allen is at it again: the Science Fiction Experience will open in 2004: “Science fiction shows us that change is constant and exhilarating,” said Microsoft co-founder Allen, who is funding the project. Flanked by science fiction props such as Captain Kirk’s original command chair from the “Star Trek” television …

I often find David Brooks to be rather smug and self-possessed, but this time he is the hammer and fantasists are the nail: There is first the dream palace of the Arabists. In this dream palace, it is always the twelfth century, and every Western incursion into the Middle East …

Guitarist singer, songwriter dies from complications of diabetes at 69: Mr. King, who lived in New Orleans, was a flamboyant performer, singing with bluesy ease and playing guitar solos that curled and sliced across the rolling New Orleans beat. He recorded hundreds of songs that were rooted in both the …

The great sultry, angry jazz singer died at her home in France. All Music Guide has a fine bio: Of all the major singers of the late 20th century, Nina Simone is one of the hardest to classify. She’s recorded extensively in the soul, jazz, and pop idioms, often over …

As I mentioned a couple of days ago, I am all for the War on Terror, but I am increasingly dissatisfied with its domestic ramifications, especially as relates to the erosion of civil liberties under the Patriot Act and the proposed follow up dubbed Patriot Act 2. Equally bad, the …

The LA Times has a nice history of the commercial “mix tape” (now on CD) and its role in promoting new hip-hop talent: New York — On clear weekends here, a boisterous bazaar sets up along the sidewalks that bracket Broadway and Canal Street, and anyone in the market for …

Man, there’s a lot of great music out there – it drives me insane when people say “they just don’t make ’em like they used to.” In fact they do make ’em like they used to: right now artists are working successfully in virtually all styles and substyles and combinations …