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You know you’ve reached a certain level of cultural penetraton when you are parodied on SNL. I vaguely remember a sketch from last Saturday’s show taking on Dell’s “Steven” character, their relentlessly cheerful and insistent pitchman. Well now the dude may be getting dumped: Dell Computer Corp.’s sales of personal …

The Myth of '18 to 34.'

The labels can: Advance copies of Faith Hill’s new “Cry” album sent by Warner Bros. Records to journalists, retailers and radio programmers included a “watermark” encoded into the disc that identifies each person a copy was sent to. The discs also came with a stern letter from a company lawyer …

Founder/host of seminal radio show coined phrase “Elvis has left the building.” Logan began in radio when he was 16, after winning a contest to become an announcer on KWKH-AM in Shreveport, Louisiana, Mrs. Logan said. He began producing the “Hayride,” a country music show performed before a live KWKH …

"Puppetry of the Penis"

No one ever went broke prying money from the hands of would-be actors: The state of California is clamping down on the practice of “pay to audition” workshops, in which actors pay to be seen. California Labor Commissioner Arthur Lujan is ready to announce a new set of guidelines making …

All information comes from somewhere: the Internet is just a more efficient and rapid delivery system than a library or other physical print archive: Police Monday named the chemistry student they suspect of carrying out Finland’s deadliest bomb attack since World War II and said he used an Internet chat …

Domain name goes to ISOC: The Internet Society, a group of 11,000 engineers and other networking experts known familiarly as ISOC, won final approval from a domain-name regulator that had sought bids to manage the Internet’s fifth-largest domain. “The board voted to go with ISOC,” said Mary Hewitt, spokeswoman for …

The heroes (and heroine) of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (America’s Best Comics) should be familiar to any school kid who’s looked to old blood-and-thunder storytelling as a means of meeting Classic Lit reading requirements: Allan Quatermain, Captain Nemo, Hawley (Invisible Man) Griffin, Henry Jeckyll/Edward Hyde and resolute Mina Murray …

American Idol’s Kelly Clarkson has answered the first question of the rest of her life: can she sell records? The answer so far is a resounding “yes,” made all the more impressive by the overwhelming banality of her single: utterly generic pop/R&B balladeering. Perhaps the very blandness of the recording …