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Dead wood version of Comics Journal hits newsstands this week. Interviews this time out feature “Skeleton Key” creator Andi Watson: PAUL GRAVETT: Silence is something that comics can capture beautifully and specifically, in a way that perhaps no other medium can. What appeals to you about using silence in your …

Eliot Van Buskirk says DVDs can save the music industry: There’s no arguing that CD sales are down this year, but what no one can agree on is the underlying cause behind the slump. The RIAA points to Internet piracy, of course, citing studies that show CD purchases are lower …

I just got an email from my friend Spot – he’s giving up his Compuserve account after about eight years. There aren’t many of us left. Who is Spot, you may ask? Besides being a fascinating and eclectic musician in his own right, he’s only one of the greatest punk …

My daughter just called from her first Americorps project deep in the woods of southern Virginia. I miss her so much it makes my teeth hurt. She loves her “team” of fellow do-gooders, loves the challenge, the sense of accomplishment. She says she misses us and I’m sure she does, …

UK tabloid News of the World discovers plot against “Posh Spice” Victoria Beckham: Police arrested five people Saturday for allegedly plotting to kidnap Spice Girl Victoria Beckham, Scotland Yard said. Police said officers had arrested four men and one woman they believed were part of the conspiracy to kidnap Beckham …

A defense witness appeared to have ulterior motives, but a video tape reputed to show Winona Ryder cutting sensor tags off merchandise never materialized in Friday’s testimony: “I don’t think so, I feel pretty good where we’re at right now,” defense attorney Mark Geragos said when asked if he planned …

Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly of Federal District Court in Washington handed Microsoft a virtual victory: a federal judge yesterday approved the company’s antitrust settlement with the Justice Department and rejected virtually all of the stiffer sanctions sought by a coalition of state attorneys general. The ruling brought at least a temporary …

Alan Jackson favored for Entertainer of the Year: The 36th Annual CMA Awards show will be televised Nov. 6 from the Grand Ole Opry. Hosting will be Vince Gill, who is the all-time leading CMA award winner with 18 trophies. When Alan Jackson, the lanky pride of Newnan, Georgia, first …

New documentary on the big smelly guy on Discovery in January: For decades, a small but loyal legion of Bigfoot hunters has spent countless weekends prowling forests in nearly every state, piling up evidence such as alleged footprints and hair samples that now has a handful of animal experts willing …

Frank Rich profiles Eminem in some great detail in this Sunday’s NY Times Magazine: Flashback: It is the year 2000, and Public Cultural Enemy No. 1 is a rapper named Eminem (aka Marshall Mathers III), who has ascended from America’s closest approximation of hell (aka his hometown, Detroit). His abundant …