The Music Crititquees have been announced (see our sidebar) – now it’s time to join Blogcritics in voting for your favorite books, films, TV shows and DVD’s of 2002. The categories are below – you can vote in the comments section or send me an email at [email protected] Have fun! …

Finally after an outlandishly long time we are back to being tbomedia.co.uk. We are also Blogcritics.com but I don’t want to confuse anyone. What happened was that we changed hosts a couple of months ago through the good graces of the lovely, charming and talented Stacy Tabb. We were happy …

Music video channel encouraging real interactivity between TV screen, computer, and viewers: For most music fans, deciding whether to buy Mariah Carey or Ashanti is a matter of musical taste. But for fans of “IMX,” the “interactive music exchange” on the digital cable channel MuchMusic USA, choosing between Ms. Carey …

Producer-songwriter Antonio “L.A.” Reid doing well as head of Arista: When Mr. Reid succeeded Arista’s founder, Clive Davis, in July 2000, becoming one of the most powerful blacks in the music industry, questions almost immediately began swirling about him in the press. Though he had had success with his own …

Here’s the deal: for any kind of true morality to exist we need to recognize the indivisible and unique sacredness of every human life, not every life period, every HUMAN life. This is what drives me insane about animal rights zealots – they don’t see humans as unique, and this …

Other than addiction – and ANYTHING can be addicting – there are very few downsides to blogging: it sharpens the mind, forces one to evaluate his/her opinions and assumptions based upon fact, improves writing skills, forces you to stay informed, encourages interaction with people from all over the country and …

Can you name an airline after a euphemism for breasts? Do the virtues of a sports bar apply to an airline? Will they have bouncers? Will women fly it? Does it matter? Hooters Air begins flying Thursday, when it will make its inaugural flight from Atlanta to Myrtle Beach, S.C. …

Bo Diddley told a high school crowd that rap is disrespectful toward women: The 74-year-old bluesman says rap “is not a thing that’s going to last as long as I have.” “First of all, you can’t understand what it is and it has no meaning,” Diddley told an audience Thursday …

Michael Moore has thrown down the gauntlet to the media: Filmmaker Michael Moore says journalists are missing the real story on Iraq. Journalists should look into a possible deal between the Bush administration and Russia to carve up Iraq’s oil fields after ousting Saddam Hussein, he said. “People in the …

Victor Davis Hanson is not subtle, his words a balm to my weary ears: Western Europe has almost gone the way of Weimar. Amoral, disarmed, and socialist, it seeks ephemeral peace at all costs, never long-term security, much less justice. Furious that history has not ended in perpetual peace and …