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A couple of days ago we mentioned the blockbuster hippie-fest Bonnaroo Music Festival coming to Tennessee this June – there’s another camp and jam extravaganza featuring some of the same artists coming to West Virginia in May: Thursday, May 15 to Sunday, May 18, 2003 7th Annual ALL GOOD MUSIC …

In its (totally legitimate) fight against real pirates – in this case Asian gangs – the Motion Picture Association is looking for informants: Hollywood is seeking informers to combat hi-tech and often heavily armed Asian pirate gangs, which are flooding the world with cheap DVDs and robbing U.S. cinema of …

While I am fully behind the War on Terror, I am absolutely against the War on Americans that is Patriot Act 2. So is law professor Anita Ramasastry: On February 7 of this year, a January 9 draft of Patriot II was revealed to the public – but not by …

The poets, the celebs, the musicians all have large anti-war segments. Good for them – war in general is bad. But THIS SPECIFIC war isn’t a generic war, isn’t Vietnam or imperialism, or for the corporations, or some vague aggressive muscle-flexing. It’s proactive self-defense catalyzed by the hideous shock of …

Own a label? Interested in starting one? Maybe you’re just interested in how indies operate – if so, check out this program in LA on the 26th: The National Association of Record Industry Professionals presents: “INDEPENDENTS’ DAY: Indy Labels Charting A New Standard For Success” Managing independent labels to stability …

AC/DC will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on March 10. To celebrate, Epic is rereleasing their entire AC/DC catalog AND giving away tickets to the only AC/DC show in the US this year: AC/DC TO MAKE THEIR ONLY US PERFORMANCE FOR 2003 ON MARCH 11TH! …

For a show whose premise was to turn the tables on grasping gold diggers by faking a $50 million fortune, Joe Millionaire sure went the way of a Disney fairy tale at the end. The masquerading lummox had to choose between Sarah the bitch, and Zora the schoolteacher: sophisticated, blonde, …

Fed up with the conservative “monlogue” on national talk radio, a group of $$ libs is tryong to create its own network starring Al Franken: The group, led by Sheldon and Anita Drobny, venture capitalists from Chicago who have been major campaign donors for Bill Clinton and Al Gore, is …

Brendan I. Koerner writes in the Washinton Monthly that Democrats are smooching entertainment industry glute to their own and the country’s detriment: These proposed laws are bad enough for consumers. But the greater evil is their long-term impact on economic growth. By yielding to Big Entertainment’s every whim, Democrats are …

Charles Paul Freund concludes in Reason that reports of American cultural imperialism are greatly exaggerated: mounting evidence suggests that all this fulmination has been entirely pointless, and that cultural pessimists have been as clueless about the processes shaping the world as were their social, economic, and political forebears. In January, …