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Top Internet Threats: Censorship to Warrantless Surveillance

March 22, 2009

The internet is filled with threats real and imagined, from malicious hackers to government censors. Beyond the hacks and cracks and in celebration of Sunshine Week we've compiled a brief list of some of the biggest public and private threats facing the internet. Warrantless Government Monitoring Following the Sept. 11 terror attacks, the practice ...

Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson to Join Mellencamp Tour

March 22, 2009

It looks like Bob Dylan may be hitting the road with John Mellencamp for a run of minor league ballpark gigs this summer. Nothing has been confirmed, but at a recent Joan Baez concert in Bloomington she let the word slip. After playing “Don’t Think Twice It’s All Right” at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater to a crowd ...

Hollywood's Blog Smog

March 22, 2009

New idiom presents conflict of interest Andrew Sullivan observed recently that “blogging is writing out loud." He continued: “A blog is not so much daily writing as hourly writing. Blogging is therefore to writing what extreme sports is to athletics; more free-form, more accident-prone, more alive." Because of all this, the relationship between blogging and traditional ...

Googles Data Culture Drives Designer Crazy and Out

March 22, 2009

Douglas Bowman, visual design lead at Google, says he’s leaving the company because an obsessive, engineer-heavy, data driven-culture made it impossible for him to work there anymore. After nearly three years at Google, where he built the design team that remains, Bowman admits that he does have something else lined up. But in a candid blog ...

Jonathan Demme Debuts “Neil Young Trunk Show” at SXSW

March 22, 2009

Director Jonathan Demme was on hand at SXSW for the world premiere of his concert film, Neil Young Trunk Show. The film is an intimate look at Young’s stage show, recorded in a small theater in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, on mostly hand-held cameras. “We did a home movie in a way,” said Demme to a Saturday ...

Phil Spector's Second Murder Trial Winds Down as Jurors Allowed to Consider Lesser Charges

March 22, 2009

Six years after actress Lana Clarkson died of a gunshot wound at Phil Spector's hilltop mansion, lawyers will once again deliver final arguments to a jury in the legendary music producer's murder trial. The question hanging over these proceedings is whether this jury, unlike the one at Spector's first trial 18 months ago, will be able ...

David Gilmore Interview

March 22, 2009

Jazz Guitarist Ron Jackson Tours Spain

March 22, 2009

Simon and Garfunkel Reunion Tour to Kick Off in New Zealand

March 21, 2009

Banking off the success of their triumphant three-song return at the Beacon Theatre last month, Simon and Garfunkel may be preparing to kick off a reunion tour New Zealand, CNN reports. Paul Simon’s manager told Rolling Stone following the Beacon shows that “there have been conversations taking place, but nothing has been confirmed” regarding a reunion ...

David Carradine: Still Punchy After All These Years

March 21, 2009

It's still early, but it's pretty safe to say that the award for the “Craziest Post- Screening Panel Discussion of the Year". It has to go to David Carradine and Haskell Wexler, who got to show everyone who stayed after an American Cinematheque screening of Hal Ashby's “Bound for Glory" just what it must've been like ...