I have never been able to get my head around architecture: sure I like nice buildings and I am fairly interested in interior design, but the actual work of summoning buildings forth from the mind has never been something I have much understood. So that’s my excuse why I have …

With add-ons iPod can be played over a radio receiver: Getting an iPod or other digital music player is great fun for the first few months that you own it. But after a while of carrying around a good chunk of your musical collection in your pocket, the novelty does …

Is CMJ rigging the charts? Being music director at KALX is a coveted and important job. Ian Hetzner shares that job with Paul Koehler. Among their duties is to compile a weekly list of the station’s top thirty albums and send it to hundreds of other stations, record labels, music …

Yesterday we reported that intelligence analyst George Friedman predicted the war with Iraq could begin as soon as this weekend: On timing, Friedman says an attack is probably imminent. This weekend offers a moonless night over Iraq’s desert sands. U.S. Gen. Tommy Franks, who will have responsibility for an invasion …

The Cure have signed a three-record deal with Artist Direct: Ross Robinson had the fever; now he’s got The Cure. Known for his production wizardry on projects with KoRn, Slipknot, Limp Bizkit, Sepultura, At The Drive-In, and the red-hot punksters The Blood Brothers, Robinson fulfills a lifelong ambition to work …

My bud and producer/musician extraordinaire Don Fleming (profiled in The Encyclopedia below) is now the Director of Licensing and in charge of artist-estate relations for the Alan Lomax Archive, a very cool position for a very cool guy. He had a big hand in selecting two critical pieces of music …

I am a huge fan of Dionne Warwick: her Bacharach-David hits from the ’60s are among the classiest pop of the last 50 years. I also like her just fine personally, having DJ’d a children’s party at her house in Beverly Hills in the ’80s. It doesn’t change my opinion …

Anti-war phone and fax campaign today: Hundreds of thousands of opponents of a U.S. war against Iraq called and faxed their senators and the White House on Wednesday in a “virtual march on Washington,” jamming many congressional telephone lines for several hours. Coordinated by the Win Without War Coalition, an …

The U.S. Justice Department seized the Iso News site , which features info on bootlegged video games and movies, but it is still up right now. I am looking at it. Reuters reports: The Justice Department said it had taken over the Web site (http://www.isonews.com) after its owner pleaded guilty …

Forbes interviews Spielberg, Katzenberg, and Geffenberg, I mean Geffen. Spielberg: Forbes interviewed Steven Spielberg, DreamWorks’ de facto chief creative officer, at Amblin, the mini-studio that Universal Studios built for him on the corner of its Burbank lot, and discussed his work and the future of the company. The following is …