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IFixit Gets iPhone 4 Prior to Release, Publishes 'Teardown'
IFixit, the San Luis Obispo outfit known for prying open and analyzing high-profile gadgets the day they hit stores, has bested its usual schedule. The electronic parts reseller acquired an iPhone 4 on Tuesday night, two days before its planned launch, and began posting a teardown, as they call the gadget examinations. We published a profile ...
Viacom Lawsuit Against YouTube Dismissed
Viacom's $1-billion lawsuit against YouTube for copyright infringement has been dismissed. In a decision issued Wednesday, United States District Court Judge Louis L. Stanton granted YouTube owner Google's motion for summary judgment that it qualifies for “safe harbor" protection under the law. The provision of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act says that Internet companies are not ...
Pearl Jam to Join Van Morrison and Aretha Franklin at New Orleans
They may call it the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, but a lineup of pop and rock performers including Pearl Jam, Drake and My Morning Jacket will be making their debuts at that annual Louisiana music series next year. On Tuesday, organizers of the 41st edition of Jazz Fest said that Aretha Franklin, Van Morrison, ...
Gregg Allman Recovering After Liver Transplant
Gregg Allman, the guitarist in the Allman Brothers Band who has had chronic health problems related to Hepatitis C, had liver transplant surgery on Wednesday morning at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Fla. “ I feel pretty good, considering everything that's happened," he said in a statement. Mr. Allman, 62, had been on a waiting ...
Free-Jazz Manifestoes Declared Nightly
Nate Wooley, sitting and aiming his trumpet toward a microphone about four feet in front of him, played free improvisation almost without affect. On Monday, at the Lower East Side bar Local 269, he was a third of the band Crackleknob, the guitarist Mary Halvorson, the bassist Reuben Radding. Mr. Wooley used a lot of extended ...
Kid Millions a Percussion Obsessive Adds Even More Drums
Kid Millions, the anchor of the band Oneida, is a mild-mannered 37-year-old by day. He has built a career on percussive longevity, bashing away at his instrument for hours on end with fury and expert precision. For 13 years he has been the anchor of the Brooklyn band Oneida, whose songs mix hypnotic Minimalism with skull-rattling ...
National Recording Registry Adds 25
Recordings ranging from a 1913 klezmer band performance to a 1995 rap by Tupac Shakur have been selected by James H. Billington, Librarian of Congress, for preservation in the National Recording Registry. The 25 selections for the eighth annual registry, picked with advice from the Library of Congress' National Recording Preservation Board, are deemed “culturally, historically, ...
UCLA Live Abandons What Set It Apart
Feeling a touch more provincial lately? You should. With the cancellation of UCLA Lives International Theatre Festival, Los Angeles status as a cultural world capital has suffered a serious blow. The fall program that brought cutting-edge theater from across the globe to the Westwood campus has been officially put on ice. It's a depressing though not ...
Google Voice Officially Launches to the Public
Google Voice is arguably one of Google's most ambitious services. The platform allows users to have a single number that will ring all of the user's many land line and mobile phone numbers at once. If a caller leaves a voicemail, Google Voice creates an e-mail-like transcript to be viewed at another time. All calls placed ...
Jazz Lives as UCLA Live Eliminates International Theater Festival
UCLA Live has officially extinguished the house lights on its signature international theater festival, eliminating theater from its 2010-11 schedule, announced Tuesday. The series will offer a reduced number of individual performances in dance, jazz, world music and more 47 this season, down from 85 performances last year. But the entire theater festival was a casualty ...
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