Blogumentary debuts tonight at the City Pages Documentary Film Festival in Minneapolis: Chuck Olsen [no relation], director. 70 minutes. A message from the blogosphere: “Hi there. My name is Chuck Olsen, and I’m producing an independent documentary about blogs. Blogs empower us to tell our story, to spout and debate …

I can resist it geographically, but if you’re in SoCal your excuse isn’t nearly as good as mine. LA Freewaves presents How Can You Resist? its 9th biennial festival of film, video and new media. The festival will present works exploring the struggles between protest and desire — touching upon …

One of the alternate angles the music biz is pursuing to deal with new market realities is corporate sponsorships. Jessica Simpson has paired up with 7-Eleven to market a new holiday collection exclusively through their stores and website. The collection features six holiday tunes including the first recorded duet between …

While this is no Jam Cruise 3, you could do worse than to lounge about a Caribbean cruise ship and listen to tunes next fall: The Rock Boat, the country’s original music festival at sea, is proud to announce its fifth annual excursion, which will feature more than 30 artists, …

The Islamic radical accused of killing Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh [story here], THEN slitting his throat before leaving two knives in his body, one pinning a note to his chest (symbolism is everything to these sick scum – note beheadings in Iraq), will be tried as a terrorist, putting …

We already know SubPop is the coolest, but how about this bribe, I mean photo contest, as a reminder? Do you like to take photos? Do you love Sub Pop bands? Well then, this contest is for you! We’re giving away a FujiFilm Finepix E510 digital camera and a copy …

Hopeful and strangely revealing concession speech by John Kerry. Here are some highlights and thoughts. John Edwards went first: “We will fight for every vote, even though the outcome won’t change.” “John Kerry is a great American” “Your cause will always be our cause” “10’s of millions will be disappointed …

Interesting responses from around the world on the Bush victory. The positive: Russian President Vladimir Putin and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi saw Bush’s victory as bolstering the U.S.-declared “war on terror.” ….Putin said victory for Bush meant the United States had not allowed itself to be cowed by terrorists. …

Kerry concedes, Bush wins, the next four years begins: Kerry’s decision was relayed to NBC News by a senior adviser, who said the senator had phoned Bush to concede and would make a concession speech at 1 p.m. Wednesday. According to two officials familiar with the situation interviewed by the …

Okay, so Bush wins. What should have been a cakewalk — a sitting president mid-war — was very close because no weapons of mass destruction were found in Iraq, because the insurgency has been more potent than we had hoped, because the administration didn’t plan very well for the “peace” …