Screen legend Olivia de Havilland will be honored with an Academy Tribute on June 15, 2006

One of industrial music’s finest hours, Nine Inch Nails’ 1989 debut album Pretty Hate Machine is being reissued by Rykodisc on November 22 (not yet available in Amazon). Available only by import for several years, there will be rejoicing in the streets when Trent Reznor’s explosive, corrosive, but also touching …

Rosa Parks, the civil rights icon who refused to move to the rear of the bus on December 1, 1955, has gone at 92. Blogcritics thoughts on the meaning of her life: Rosa Parks Never Came To Canada Growing up in Canada in the 1960’s left you sort of oblivious …

I am thrilled to have the opportunity to work with Sandra Bernhard. Her humor is perfect for the Queer Edge

Pere Ubu, one of Cleveland’s most critically revered, influential, challenging and enduring groups, will perform a rare small-venue show at the Beachland Ballroom Tavern in Cleveland, OH on November 6. Ubu, founded by David Thomas (then known as “Crocus Behemoth”) and the late Peter Laughner in 1975 upon the demise …

Americans eat more meals out - the food is better - the service is not.

The clock has been ticking for the 27 Infinity Broadcasting-owned stations to come up with a credible scheme for replacing mega-super-uber morning drive shock-jock Howard Stern, who is fleeing to the warm, luxurious confines of Sirius Satellite Radio in January, where he will be free of the depredations and linguistic …

Harvard’s Center for Public Leadership, U.S. News & World Report magazine, and public opinion research firm Yankelovich have combined to produce “America’s Best Leaders 2005,” an ambitious assemblage of profiles and essays published in the latest issue of U.S. News. “America’s Best Leaders 2005” purports to explore the “critical elements …

In the Phil Spector murder case, prosecutor Douglas Sortino said in papers filed with the court Friday that he plans to use a statement in which the famed record producer said he accidentally shot actress Lana Clarkson, 40, while Spector’s lawyers have argued the statements he made to police after …

The company that owns the venerable and iconic Village Voice — now in its 50th year — will merge with the nation’s largest alternative weekly chain, New Times Media, to form an alternative media company with 17 papers and a combined weekly circulation of 1.8 million, about 25% of the …