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On the one hand: If U.S.-led forces invade Iraq (news – web sites), world oil prices will probably plunge from current levels and stay there — so long as the conflict ends quickly and causes little damage to production capacity in the Persian Gulf, several energy analysts said Friday. [AP] …

The amazing Johnny Cash – at a highpoint in his, what?, fifth career with American lV: The Man Comes Around – is suffering from pneumonia: Johnny Cash is being treated at a Nashville hospital for pneumonia, a hospital spokeswoman said. The 71-year-old singer, who was admitted Monday to Baptist Hospital, …

Can you imagine how devoid of humanity we would be if the world was without mothers? I watched this silly movie on TV the other day where a man lost his wife during childbirth and was forced to take care of his child alone with only marginal help from strangers …

Remember the MAP case against the major labels and distributors? Any consumer who had purchased CD’s during the affected time period were eligible for a piece of the settlement pie. Time’s up: Music buyers who applied for a share of a price-fixing settlement involving major U.S. record distributors and retailers …

My patient friend Alex Steininger has a pretty fine thing going out there in Portland, the sub-Seattle. He has his own record label, In Music We Trust, his own PR company of the same name; and, for consistency’s sake, a cool indie webzine of, you guessed it, the same name. …

Hey, we Blogcritics are a varied and multi-talented lot: support our very own Craig Kleeman on his mini-tour of Virginia and buy a CD or some merchandise from him so he can eat: i just played a show here in new york, and i’m spent. (hello, it’s your favorite travelling …

Tonight, the first of the American Idol finalists got voted back to oblivion. In my recap of last night’s show, written this morning, I predicted either Vanessa or Carmen would get nuked. It was Vanessa. I hate to say I told you so, but I flipping told you so (dances …

Broadway musician’s strike ends – ten more years of live music on the Great White Way: Broadway’s producers and striking musicians — immediately responding to a request from New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg to meet with a mediator Monday — bargained through the night, reaching a tentative new four-year contract …

A tiny sidebar to the story of the catastrophic death of nearly 100 people in the Rhode Island club disaster, was the fact that the great majority of the population had no idea that Great White was still a band. Big, chunky, ’80s hair metal refuses to go away: Bands …

Vicious chihuahua populist Rep. Dennis Kucinich, an ex-mayor of Cleveland, is running for president. Another Ohio ex-mayor, Jerry Springer, is thinking of running for the Senate. Kucinich was practically run out of town for dogmatically driving the city to financial ruin, among other sins. Springer resigned from Cincinnati City Council …