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In Slate, Drew Clark takes a position contrary to intuition regarding the “clean” film debate: Cutting sex, violence, and profanity from movies is normally considered censorship. But if studios and directors like Steven Spielberg and Steven Soderbergh win a copyright suit against 11 small companies that permit consumers to avoid …

The big-eyed heroine of Ted Naifeh’s Courtney Crumrin and the Night Things (Oni Press) looks like she wouldn’t be out of place in Edward Gorey’s fog-shrouded neighborhood. A newcomer to Hillsborough Junior High, Courtney & her worthless parents have moved in to sponge off her Uncle Aloysius, a cadaverous Victorian …

The Golden Globes were announced last night, officially beginning the stretch run to the Academy Awards: HOLLYWOOD FOREIGN PRESS ASSOCIATION Golden Globe Awards 2003 BEST MOTION PICTURE – DRAMA Winner: THE HOURS Paramount Pictures/Miramax Films; Paramount Pictures Other nominees: ABOUT SCHMIDT Michael Besman/Harry Gittes Prod.; New Line Cinema GANGS OF …

600 songs and a genome: Life science technology is about as cutting-edge as it gets, but now it’s apparently also hip. At least that’s the image projected by University of New Hampshire researcher Will Gilbert, who has taken to carrying around the human genome on his Apple Computer iPod. Gilbert, …

Although it gets very technical and boring and rife with legalese, the issue of copyright has very real ramifications for every one of us: the further copyright is extended, the smaller becomes the public domain, the open repository of our public culture. Here’s a specific example for MLK Jr. day. …

ARTISTdirect announces SnoCore 2003, “America’s first and only winter-season, road-show celebration of cutting-edge rock and the snow-sports lifestyle.” The tour begins February 11 in Albuquerque, NM, and will play at least thirty-one dates before it winds up on the east coast in late March. “We’ll be doing the same show …

After years of being better in theory than in execution, Nick Cave executes.

One of the best ways to honor the spirit of the day is to spend some time listening to his words. The Seattle Times has three excerpts from King’s most famous speeches. The first two are from the “I have a dream” speech; the last is from the speech King …

We mentioned a few days ago that Stevie Wonder and India.Arie had the first Grammy nomination ever for a song specifically recorded as a commercial. Here’s the next step: ALANA DAVIS is a sort of alternative singer who left her contract with a major record company last summer. The other …

I have little doubt that the vast majority of those who demonstrated yesterday against possible war with Iraq, did so for commendable reasons of conscience and principle. I think they are wrong, but that is not the point at the moment: no one who is opposed to war with Iraq …