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As Lenny Kravitz once averred, it isn’t over until it’s over, but after beating the formerly mighty Yankees four straight to overcome a 3-games-to-none deficit for the first time in MLB playoff history, and now winning handily the first two World Series games against the dangerous Cardinals while MAKING FOUR …

After listening to this album, I am curious to hear the rest of their collection.

“I guess I’d most like Bomp to be remembered as a label utterly dedicated to the people who care most about music: the fans and collectors.” Very sad news, Greg Shaw, fanzine publisher, magazine editor, band manager, author, indie label owner (Bomp), and rock historian, died on Tuesday, October 19 …

The grim video footage is here. Like Al says, part of the appeal of SNL is that, in the Eastern Time Zone at least, it really is live and things can and do go wrong. Take Ashleee Simpson’s second song Saturday night. NBC’s SNL board has been burning up since …

If you were around twenty years ago, I am sure you vividly remember the video where a roomful of UK stars sang “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” line-by-line individually, collectively on the choruses: first George Michael, then Boy George, Bono, Simon LeBon, Sting, Phil Collins, Bananarama, etc. It was the …

I just mentioned yesterday Lessig and company’s p2p Politics.org site which is gathering election-related video, primarily ads of one kind or another. Well the Internet Archive: Election 2004 site, with 462 movie files (as of the moment), is on another scale entirely. With debate footage, candidate ads, interest group ads, …

I love El Greco, and the Cleveland Museum of Art houses one of his greatest, “Christ on the Cross,” an epic, vastly empathetic thrust into the gaping maw of a damaged universe, where Bosch meets Van Gogh, Christ’s very human figure pitted against palpably hostile clouds of hatred and despair. …

The single most catastrophic collapse in major league sports playoff history (it’s happened twice in the NHL, but they they have more rounds of playoffs than teams) now sits squarely at the feet of the New York Yankees of song and lore, forever changing the physical molecules and numenous spirits …

Sinclair Broadcast Group (which includes FOX, WB, ABC, CBS, NBC, and UPN affiliates and reaches approximately 24% of all U.S. television households) — looking down the barrel of advertiser defections, a viewer boycott, a stock price heading south pronto, and strong opposition from Democrats — retreated from its plan to …

I’ve seen previews now for Robert Zemeckis’s $165M The Polar Express (coming November 10) at the movie theater, on DVDs, and on TV – it’s everywhere (and check out the merchandising tie-ins below). It looks like an amazing CGI ride, based upon the classic Chris Van Allsburg children’s book about …