Black List Blackout

from Deadline Black List Suspends Studio Memberships, Lowers Scribes’ Fees In Support Of WGA Strike By Dominic Patten WGA, The Black List EXCLUSIVE: The skies are cloudy over LA and still thick over NYC today, but for over 1,000 studio and “struck companies”...

The Iron Sheik Gone

from Deadline The Iron Sheik Dies: Wrestling Star Hossein Khosrow Ali Vaziri Was 81 By Greg Evans The man born Hossein Khosrow Ali Vaziri but known to millions of pre wrestling fans as The Iron Sheik has died. He was 81. His death was announced on his official...

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....

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...