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In the line of fire
Talk about intrepid reporting: I'd like to seen an embedded war journalist knowingly step into th...
Talking radio
The biggest stories to come out of talk radio this election cycle have been found on the right si...
Mamet sees the dark
Playwright-author-screenwriter David Mamet has a piece (in the Village Voice, of all places) desc...
The Boss' iPod
Dovetailing with my recent piece contrasting "Little" Steven Van Zandt's reactionary opinion of n...
Night falls ... again
If I didn't know better, I'd swear this trailer for M. Night Shyamalan's forthcoming "The Happeni...
No more No Depression
Times are tough for print publications as it is. Just imagine how tenuous is the business model o...
Music-gifting etiquette in the Digital Age
Hmm.\ \ \ Perhaps this is a question better suited for a self-described ethicist, for I am hopele...
'What is the What' are you talking about?!
In what has to be one of the most egregious wastes of inch-count ever in the "Paper of Record," n...
The Writers Guild and gloom
As a corrective on my piece today on the Hollywood writers' strike, in which I notice that the me...
Soundtrack at Ron Paul HQ
Hey: Who was the light bulb who chose ... Bush ... as Ron Paul's coffer-ticker crossed the $12 mi...
Words and music, man
So I've got a thumbsucker out today about how the downloading of music has, happily, restored the...
Zep
The band sounds pretty powerful, even if Robert Plant's voice is quite obviously half-shot (music...
