Fight For Your Rights

from The Los Angeles Times via MSN Editorial: A Hollywood mess: Writers are striking, and actors may too, over the future of the industry Opinion by The Times Editorial Board Screen Actors Guild members take part in a Writers Guild rally May 22 outside Warner Bros....

Vanishing Victor

from The New York Times Don’t Kill ‘Frankenstein’ With Real Frankensteins at Large by Maureen Dowd By the time I took off my mortarboard two weeks ago, my degree in English literature was de trop. Instead of a Master of Arts, I should have gotten a Master of...

Loopin’ Alive

from Sound on Sound Classic Tracks: The Bee Gees ‘Stayin’ Alive’ Producers: The Bee Gees, Albhy Galuten, Karl Richardson • Engineer: Karl Richardson By Richard Buskin Disco was an American phenomenon, but its greatest hits were recorded in France by...

Return of the Ham

from The Guardian No cellphone? No problem! The vintage radio enthusiasts prepping for disaster Ham radio users, from teenagers to eightysomethings, are ready to communicate in the next crisis – be it a wildfire, pandemic or ‘the big one’ by Amanda Ulrich in Palm...