Tag Archives: Administrative

Cryin’ won’t help you, prayin’ won’t do you no good, Now, cryin’ won’t help you, prayin’ won’t do you no good, When the levee breaks, mama, you got to move. (“When the Levee Breaks” Led Zeppelin) Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast on the morning of August 29 – there …

Seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong continues to attack reports in the French media that he used a banned blood booster in his first tour victory in 1999. The French sports daily L’Equipe reported Tuesday that new exams on six urine samples Armstrong provided during the 1999 tour resulted …

On Monday’s broadcast of The 700 Club, Christian Coalition founder, televangelist, ’88 presidential candidate, and friend-o-Bush Pat Robertson unloaded on Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, saying, “We have the ability to take him out, and I think the time has come that we exercise that ability,” and accusing Chavez of intending …

Every person living in North America, even some Native Nations, is an immigrant from another country.

Cindy Sheehan – one woman, many questions: Is she an unreasonable, malignant gadfly? Righteously indignant grieving mother? Is it anti-American to protest ongoing American military action, or the most American expression of all? Do her efforts undermine the war effort? Should the war effort be undermined? Would quitting Iraq now …

So You Think You Can Dance, Fox’s summer reality competition that marries American Idol and Dance Fever is underway. Our Regina Avalos is covering all the gyrations and undulations: TV Review: So You Think You Can Dance – The Finale The winner is announced! Posted to Video by Regina Avalos …

About a week before our third anniversary (August 12), tbomedia.co.uk — our little “sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, technology, and politics” — has hit the 10 million unique visitors mark. This is a nice big fat round number that speaks volumes toward the talents …

MTV’s venerable Real World, the paterfamilias of all U.S. reality shows, is still going strong. We, and in particular Regina Avalos, are all over it: TV Review: Real World Austin 10/25/05 An initial cut of the fifteen-minute documentary is put together by Nehemiah, and shown to their three bosses. Posted …

On July 16, ’05 millions of books were snapped up worldwide as J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, number 6 in the young wizard’s saga of good, evil, friendship, magic and funny names, went on sale. Preince makes a triumphant return in paperback form in July, ’06, with …

Despite, or because of, their ultimate subjectivity and sand castle substantiality, rankings of such musical units as albums, guitar players, songs and album covers draw a vast amount of attention and heated debate: one man’s meat is another’s poison. In response to the outrage and disbelief over Spin magazine’s list …