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My favorite Monty Python, Eric Idle, has his first comedy album in years (not including Sings Monty Python) coming out in early March called The Rutland Isles. It’s a parody of a travel documentary, with Idle as “Nigel Spasm, one of a long line of British men in shorts,” who …

My selections for the best Oscars: Mayer, Hammerstein, De La Hoya, Wilde, Schindler, Peterson, Olsen (my grandfather, he was a sea captain on the Pacific Coast).

The best evidence yet that al Qaeda and Iraq are the same war? Bin Laden says they are: An audio tape broadcast Tuesday and said to be from fugitive Saudi-born militant Osama bin Laden warned Arab states against backing any U.S.-led war on Iraq and said suicide attacks were important …

Fans of the spare, arid beauty of the desert Southwest will find the new Friends of Dean Martinez 2-CD set On the Shore the perfect soundtrack to their lives. The Friends were formed in 1994 as an instrumental side project by members of Giant Sand, but the glory of their …

In an egregious oversight, we have three stories about the Oscar nominations and none (until now) about the Razzies: Big budget box office bombs, big name embarrassments and one of 2002’s biggest box office hits are featured among nominations for The 23rd Annual Golden Raspberry (RAZZIE) Awards, dis-honoring the year’s …

During the Cold War, the legenadry Hansa At the Wall recording studios in Berlin, were just that, at the wall, and at the junction of two staggerlingly different worlds: It was this potent combination of Cold War stand-off and hedonism that inspired David Bowie, Iggy Pop, U2 and Depeche Mode …

Dell dude busted in NYC: Benjamin Curtis, a 22-year-old New York University drama student, was arraigned Monday on a misdemeanor drug possession charge. The charge assumes a suspect is not carrying more than a “use amount” – enough to roll several marijuana cigarettes. Police said he was arrested Sunday night …

Online digital music service pressplay adds indies to catalog: Online subscription music service pressplay said on Monday it has reached agreements with a number of independent record labels that will add artists like Frank Zappa, Nirvana and Nelly Furtado to its catalog. Pressplay, a joint venture of the music arms …

The “human shield” technique for combat prevention probably worked a little better in the age of literal shields: physically blocking the attack of a countryman against an opponent would probably work pretty well, but I think Pocahontas was about the last person to successfully use the technique. Missiles and bombs …