Late Night Wallflower (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Everyone’s favorite Brooklynites TV On The Radio have put up a brand new song off their upcoming album Dear Science. Check out the funkalicious track “Golden Age” over at the band’s website and check out their fall tour dates after the jump. 9/5: Roseland Theater; Portland, Oregon+ 9/6: Showbox; Seattle, Washington+ 9/12: Knitting Factory Concert House; Boise, Idaho+ 9/13: [...]
News1130 - All News Radio (Free subscription) | 21 hours ago
Vic Waters, a member of the B.C Entertainment Hall of Fame, has passed away at age 89. Waters started in radio in 1938 at CJOR. It was the only station he ever worked for, as a studio operator, announcer ...
Towleroad (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008
A petition calling for Prime Minister Gordon Brown to reprimand Ulster Democratic Unionist Party MP Iris Robinson, whose remarks that gays should seek therapy to be cured were met by outrage earlier this year (she also compared gays to murderers)...
BizzyBlog (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
From Beijing (link requires free registration): August 10, 2008 Twenty-four years after Dara Torres first dived into an Olympic pool for a freestyle relay, she took the plunge again. There would be no gold medal Sunday morning to match the one she won with the American team as a teenager, but Torres, now 41, would have no problem [...]
Freakonomics (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
Bruce Silverglade at Gleason's Gym, Brooklyn, NY Sports fan or not, chances are you've heard of Sugar Ray Robinson, George Foreman, and Rocky Marciano. But unless you follow boxing, you probably haven't heard of Antonio Margarito, who recently beat Miguel Cotto to become a three-time welterweight champion. This disparity may explain why boxing isn't as [...]
Darwiniana (Free subscription) | 08/09/2008
The origin of theories By Andrew Robinson Published: August 9 2008 03:00 | Last updated: August 9 2008 03:00 O n the Origin of Species shook Victorian Britain in 1859 - and has today made Darwin more famous than even Newton and Einstein. But it has never been a work of popular science: long, difficult and poorly [...]
Talking Points Memo (Free subscription) | 08/03/2008 | Politics
TPM Reader RY keeps us posted ... Disquieting Rasmussen numbers this morning--McCain's crying racism worked. 53% of Americans, including the same % of whites and half of all Democrats, thing that Obama's "dollar bill" remark was "racist." Only 22% think...
Yeeeah! (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
Kate Hudson made it four days after getting dumped by Lance Armstrong before being photographed sucking face with another man — ex-husband Chris Robinson. Yep, four whole days! This has to be some kind of new record. A source told OK! Magazine “They were really affectionate with each other and gave [...]
Kevin Smokler (Free subscription) | 07/26/2008
Title: Box Office Poison Author: Alex Robinson Origins: I hadn't heard of Robinson until I spent the day in Ann Arbor with my friend Carla Borsoi. In late afternoon, we visited the Vault of Midnight comic book store where Ms....
Red State (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008 | Politics
One of these two does not compute, unless we can count Junior High now. Here is the Rocky Mountain News's profile of Andrea Robinson, the first Director of Sustainability & Greening for the DNC. In it, they note On a sweltering Wednesday in June, Robinson, a thirtysomething who's worked on environmental initiatives for the Clintons and Al Gore, already has switched off the power strips in her Denver...
Balloon Juice (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008 | Politics
I predict right now that this piece will create a major-league hissy fit: A string of erroneous word choices is helping opponents make his 71 years a matter of age, not experience. Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.) said “Iraq” when he apparently meant “Afghanistan” on Monday, adding to a string of mixed-up word choices that is giving ammunition [...]
Confessions of a Political Junkie (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
One of the two does not compute. Here is the Rocky Mountain News’s profile of Andrea Robinson, the first Director of Sustainability & Greening for the DNC. In it, they note On a sweltering Wednesday in June, Robinson, a thirtysomething who’s worked on environmental initiatives for the Clintons and Al Gore, already has switched off the [...]
Busted Coverage (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
It’s Monday. The sports world can’t get much more boring and the big news is some aged defensive end being traded is huge news. The ‘Skins continue to add 30+ football players and still won’t win a Super Bowl. Congrats. In other news, it was tryouts weekend in Los Angeles (thanks to Adam Rose at the [...]
Technology & Marketing Law Blog (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008 | Technology
By Eric Goldman Windsor Auctions, Inc. v. eBay, Inc., 2008 WL 2622791 (N.D. Cal. July 1, 2008) The Robinson-Patman Act...
