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Interviews with execs from EMI and Unversal: EMI Group was once hailed as the music company that brought the world the Beatles, Frank Sinatra and Nat King Cole. But by the time record veterans Alain Levy and David Munns took over the British company’s struggling music operations last October, employees …

Though the home team bias is obvious, this SF Gate bio of Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren is instructive: In Silicon Valley, where crack computer programmers and networking aces are now competing for jobs waiting tables and tending bar, the connection between government policies that are hurting the digital economy and skyrocketing …

Ron Rosenbaum laments the departure of Christopher Hitchens from the Nation magazine. He rather neatly summarizes my own concerns regarding the influence of Chomsky, and others on the far left: It’s sad, though, because one senses that Mr. Hitchens forced a lot of people on the Left to confront their …

This Weekend on Book TV: National Book Festival Focusing on serious nonfiction and the publishing industry, Book TV airs continuously each weekend from Saturday at 8 a.m. to Monday at 8 a.m. on C-SPAN2. Highlights and featured authors for this coming weekend: Saturday, October 12 (All times Eastern) 8:30 a.m. …

The Comics Journal has an excellent audio archive up for Halloween, an interview from ’83 with William Gaines, the late publisher of Tales From the Crypt and Mad Magazine. Dirk Deppey writes in: Along with editor Al Feldstein, Gaines was the publisher responsible for perhaps the first genuine Renaissance in …

And some thoughts on John Lennon's birthday.

It had to happen: On Tuesday, Macrovision, a maker of digital copyright protection technology and Websense, a maker of employee Internet management software, announced a strategic partnership to develop tools for locating pirated files on corporate and government networks, according to a statement released by the two companies. The partnership …

With just over two weeks left to make its last payment, the Bill Monroe Foundation still owes $965,000 for the bluegrass star’s famed mandolin: The Rosine-based organization has until Oct. 26 to make a payment of $965,000 for Monroe’s 1923 Gibson F-5 mandolin, which is stored in a Hendersonville, Tenn., …

Who would have thought Rikki Rockett would be out front, leading the zeitgeist? Rikki just decorates them, but in Japan the toilets do everything but make your lunch: Japan’s toilet wars started in February, when Matsushita engineers here unveiled a toilet seat equipped with electrodes that send a mild electric …

The American Music Center to offer free contemporary classical music on the web: the American Music Center, an organization to aid in the distribution of music and serve as an information clearinghouse. When the center opened an office on West 42nd Street later that year, it quickly became a command …