I love working on these “music festivals in exotic locales” stories, which are frankly not much more than promotional announcements with some random commentary thrown in, because I can fantacize about being there at least while I’m tossing the piece together. And who knows, maybe someone who reads them will …

I like my title a lot better than the story: Security has reached the subcutaneous level for Mexico’s attorney general and at least 160 people in his office — they have been implanted with microchips that get them access to secure areas of their headquarters. It’s a pioneering application of …

Does music reflect or lead the mood of the country? Either way, the tone of popular music regarding the war in Iraq has changed very markedly, according to some fascinating research performed by ace radio monitor Sean Ross: Shortly after the war in Iraq started, and during the height of …

In the ongoing P2P wars between the RIAA, the file sharing networks, and file sharers themselves, the RIAA has been of late talking up the capabilities of Audible Magic’s “acoustic filtering” technology, urging its adoption upon universities, corporations, and Congress. There are three main considerations: Does it work? How much …

The surprising Indians, who are three games under .500 at the All-Star break but would be in first place if not for an excremental bullpen, have five players selected for the AL All-Star team (the first AL team with a losing record to have five All-Stars since the 1972 Royals): …

So there we are tooling along cheerfully in my daughter’s LeBaron convertible, top down, temp in the high 80s, the moving air thick and summery. The baby, 7 months old yesterday, giggling maniacally in the back, his little fuzzy hairs dancing on his little fuzzy head in the welcoming wind. …

The bizarre death of Bobby Fuller at age 22 – 38 years ago on July 18 – remains one of the strangest in showbiz history. Bobby Fuller was a Buddy Holly fanatic from El Paso who came to Bob Keane’s Del-Fi label in ’63 with some good material but no …

We mentioned several months ago that Mattel lost yet again in court trying to stifle Barbie-art. Now Freeculture.org (“the organizing center of a new student movement to support free speech, free software, and free culture”) has organized National Barbie-in-a-Blender Day: Mattel isn’t a big fan of free speech– at least …

I agree that getting as many people as possible involved in the political process is an unambiguous good, and I also agree that voting is like most habits: the younger you begin, the more likely you are to stick with it. I am also glad to see Republicans are no …

Our own CW Fisher is a poetic soul in an instruction-manual world. Not only is he one of Blogcritic’s most outstanding writers, but he is also a Photoshop artist (did I just make that term up?) of no small talent. Check out his alternately gripping and amusing surrealist portfolio here. …