Tag Archives: Television

Rob Lowe does earnest. . .

I am really enjoying Martin Scorsese’s blues series on PBS. Sunday night’s debut was a journey, directed by Scorsese himself, from the Mississippi Delta to Mali in West Africa with young bluesman Corey Harris, going farther and farther back in time until all black music conjoined in the primordial, wildly …

Our “boots on the ground” correspondent Stephen, traveling the Middle East on a musical performance tour, reports from Kuwait. His first two reports are here and here. Thanks again for getting the view out there– I feel so frustrated watching this going on and then seeing the way it is …

Not much defense for this: In what prosecutors say was the first jury conviction ever under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, a Florida man was convicted in Los Angeles of selling hardware used to pirate DirecTV broadcasts. Thomas Michael Whitehead, 38, of Boca Raton, was found guilty of one count …

TechTV is looking for “people of various opinions and from various demographics” for a televised debate September 12. Does this mean mixed-race schizophrenics are most likely to get in? From the rise of Napster and the hottest P2P apps to the Recording Industry Association of America’s subpoenas, TechTV brings you …

GE’s NBC snags the bride Universal in deal with Vivendi: NBC and Vivendi said they intend to combine the assets into a new company, which would most likely be called NBC Universal, though a final deal has yet to be worked out. The companies expect to complete the last phase …

Today marks the 40th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, where Martin Luther King Jr. and so many other great orators and civil rights leader spoke of the desire for true equality. I have been listening to NPR’s Tavis Smiley show the past few days as …

Anna is pretty hot and all, modeling her new sports bra on Amazon. But Anna is no longer in the same league with Serena Williams, who is not only the top women’s player in the world, but has begun an acting career and is every bit as hot as Anna, …

We dig TechTV, with all kinds of useful, entertaining and strange information on matters tech (especially since they picked us as a favorite blog – thanks Sarah!) Now it’s for sale: Paul Allen, the entrepreneur and co-founder of software maker Microsoft Corp. is looking to sell his technology-related cable channel …

Remember all that cool news I mentioned about the Willie Nelson-Ani DiFRanco concert to benefit Dennis Kucinich’s presidential campaign scheduled for September 6 in Cleveland? It was all a lie: Concerts Being Rescheduled In order to better fit the Kucinich campaign’s schedule, the Willie Nelson concerts set for in September …