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Reuters has another report on the house concert movement, noting how the Internet has made gathering like-minded people together so much easier: On a recent Saturday night in this Washington suburb, about three dozen people pack the home of Sherri and Richard Weil. Concert-goers bring the chips, dip and beer. …

Hunter S. Thompson has joined the poets in opposing possible war against Iraq. Given his ethos of retribution and reckless love affair with guns, I am surprised by his anti-war stance this time around. I hope it isn’t that his hatred of the Republicans causes him to oppose ANYTHING that …

I was under the impression that Martin Sheen is a socialist or something, but I guess he’s just a Democrat. Sheen, apparently seeing a mirror image of his TV president character, has endorsed Howard Dean for president: Actor Martin Sheen, who portrays President Josiah Bartlet on NBC’s “The West Wing,” …

Janis Ian, spokesartist for the Internet generation, is back with another broadside against the music industry in the LKA Times. She decries the Verizon decision as not only bad for privacy rights, consumers, ISPs, and yo mama, but it’s also bad for ARTISTS, exactly the people the RIAA claims to …

If ever there was a time when confabs on the future of the entertainment biz are relevant, this is it. Here’s a gathering in NYC at the end of Feb: Global Entertainment and Media Summit Unites Entertainment Leaders and Visionaries at Peak of Industry’s Transformation Keynotes Include Danny Goldberg, Jack …

Jan Herman is looking for a copy of the picture Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon carried with him on the Columbia. As he sadly notes, if it was an original, it’s gone now. He links to two other pictures drawn by the same artist, 14-year-old Peter Ginz, before he perished in …

“Intellectual property law cannot be patched, retrofitted, or expanded to contain digitized expression any more than real estate law might be revised to cover the allocation of broadcasting spectrum…” John Perry Barlow The structure of the recording industry continues to crumble from within: this time we have an essay by …

Several weeks ago, I did a piece for my blog & Blogcritics, discussing some of my favorite ongoing genre comics. I received several responses (not to mention, a nice plug in Journalista!), but the most insistent comments came from a reader who thought I should’ve included Marvel’s The Ultimates in …

By Friday night my sleep deficit has caught up with me, I’m a zombie. I was ready to collapse last night by about 11:30 when Dawn said “let’s stay up and watch something.” Uh, okay. I looked in the TV Guide and to my mixed dismay (I have to stay …

All kinds of digital goodies are infiltrating night spots, including smart customer cards, computerized ordering systems, MP3 jukeboxes, and urinal ads that talk to you: “Urinal ads are the most effective form of advertising in a club,” said nightclub consultant Dave Hollingworth. “Guys don’t want to look at each other …