Electric Sheep Real

by | Aug 9, 2009 | Mirth

from The Daily Mail Real-life Ram-bo: The sheep who abseiled down electricity cable after snagging his horn By MAIL FOREIGN SERVICE Help? The sheep dangles some 15feet above the ground, its horn caught in the live electrical wire [click to continue reading at The...

Herbie Gets His Due

by | Aug 7, 2009 | Culture Music Art, Los Angeles

from Lee Bailey’s EUR WEB HERBIE HANCOCK JOINS L.A. PHILHARMONIC: Jazz great named creative chair; begins two-year tenure in 2010. The Los Angeles Philharmonic has tapped Herbie Hancock as its new creative chair for jazz, a post that oversees jazz programming at...

Baatin Gone

by | Aug 7, 2009 | Culture Music Art

from The Detroit Free Press Slum Village rapper Baatin dead at 35 Detroit native, known for spiritual lyrics, had recently returned to group BY BRIAN MCCOLLUM • FREE PRESS POP MUSIC WRITER • AUGUST 1, 2009 Titus (Baatin) Glover, the Detroit rapper who co-founded the...

The Art of Harvey Kurtzman

by | Aug 7, 2009 | Culture Music Art

from the New York Times The Art of Rebellion From “The Art of Harvey Kurtzman” More Photos > By STEVEN HELLER If not for Mad magazine, there might never have been (in no particular order) 1960s youth culture, underground comics, Wacky Packs, “Laugh-In,” “Saturday...