Our great pal Cindy Chaffin announces: It’s finally here! Today, Monday March 1st TexasRadio1.com is fully launched! -Every Monday at 3pm CST it’s the The Buddy Blues Show. The Best in Texas Blues by the good folks who bring you Buddy Magazine!!! -Every Tuesday at 6pm it’s The Fine Line, …

Fox’s new reality show – if you consider Eden “real” – is Forever Eden, which debuts tonight and tomorrow at 9PM ET, and will assume its regular slot Thursday, March 18. Described as: a small group of real people willing to take an “indefinite break” from their everyday lives to …

I always look forward to a new release by the great grooving Jamaican keyboarist Monty Alexander, but Rocksteady, due out on March 23, is even more exciting than usual, for on it Alexander is paired with Jamaica’s greatest guitarist, Ernest Ranglin, on jazzy versions of some of the “rocksteady” era’s …

As I have been arguing all along, the trade/”outsourcing” debate can never be about “pure” economics, because this is the real world, and in the real world economics is inextricably bound with politics, as Thomas Friedman notes in yesterday’s column: BANGALORE, India ….Watching these incredibly enthusiastic young Indians preparing for …

Okay, back to Mel: the NY Times remains consistent in its disapproval of The Passion. Conservative commentator William Safire sees the fim as inflaming anti-Semitism: The word “passion” is rooted in the Latin for “suffer.” Mel Gibson’s movie about the torture and agony of the final hours of Jesus is …

“Promoting Innovation and Economic Growth: The Special Problem of Digital Intellectual Property,” a new CED policy statement is now available. The statement includes an overview of copyright law and business innovation, as well as recommendations for overcoming the challenges inherent in digital media. The NY Times reports on the report: …

As enticing as are the Oscars and theological debate driven by a religious splatter film, back in the real world something extremely significant and encouraging for the future of the greater Middle East transpired today: Iraqi politicians agreed early Monday on an interim constitution with a wide ranging bill of …

The Hollywood Reporter was lurking around backstage – first the Ringers: “All I’m feeling right now is absolute disbelief,” Jackson said. “You hope that you will win something, but the sweep is unreal. It speaks to the fact that people enjoyed the movies that we made on all levels, and …

It was fashionable: Best Actress nominee CHARLIZE THERON was head-to-toe sparkle in her nude, crystal, GUCCI gown with a daring low back, and her natural makeup and hair that said 1930s femme fatale! And Oscar winner and presenter JULIA ROBERTS also went for the pale look and was soft and …

After downplaying the glam – and isn’t that really what the show’s all about? – for the last two years due to 9/11 and then the war in Iraq, the Academy Awards promise to be in full glitz mode this year: Celebrities will be strutting the red carpet again after …