Archive for 2009
Thursday, December 31st, 2009
The fight is on to see who foots the bill for the bankers who caused the biggest crash since 1929. As social worker and unionist Shamus Cooke points out, the political instability that is currently engulfing Europe will soon be exported to the United States, and Americans must not be ...
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Monday, December 28th, 2009
English singer-songwriter Jamie Cullum has admitted that, like many of his fellow Brits, he is an avid downloader of music. While noting that as many copies of his album have been downloaded as bought officially, Cullum says that punishing file-sharers is out of the question. Only cutting-edge legal services have ...
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Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
After almost one year in office, Barack Obama is well on the way to be America's greatest Republican president. Commentator and author Saul Landau helps you count the ways...
"He gave billions to Wall Street, cracked down on illegal immigrants getting health care, and he's sending 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan... ...
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Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009
The 3-D effects can be quite startling and Jim Carrey is fairly well restrained in Robert Zemeckis' A Christmas Carol but about the time when Marley's ghost appears the animation starts going wrong. As Critic After Dark Noel Vera says, perhaps it's time for Hideo [Ringu] Nakata to helm this ...
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Saturday, December 19th, 2009
Golfer Tiger Woods - good on the green, good for the advertising industry and perhaps, more importantly, as his mistresses say, good in the sack. While there are many successful “family men” with conservative reputations who lead complicated double lives, as sex therapist Dr Susan Block sees it, on some ...
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Thursday, December 17th, 2009
So here is Tiger Woods in 2010: no tour, a busted marriage, and alone with nothing but his sweatshops to keep him warm. By sports commentator Dave Zirin.
Tiger Woods's self-imposed exile from golf is the most stunning - and stunningly rapid - fall from grace in the history of sports. ...
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Thursday, December 17th, 2009
There was a time when roots rock ruled, where bands such as the Long Ryders and Green On Red (remember No Free Lunch and Gee Ain't It Funny How Time Slips Away?) outplayed most things in the record stores. And for Live! Music Review editor Bill Glahn, there's just no ...
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Saturday, December 12th, 2009
After years of claiming consumers disrespect copyright, the major music labels in Canada are facing a massive lawsuit for copyright infringement; and where the infringer has effectively already admitted owing at least US$50 million and the full claim could exceed $6 billion. By internet law columnist Michael Geist.
Chet Baker was ...
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Thursday, December 10th, 2009
It is a huge pleasure for me to share with you the transcript of a Q&A by email which I did recently with Gilad Atzmon. I first discovered Gilad the jazz musician years ago when I myself was still playing jazz guitar, and only later did I learn of his ...
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Thursday, December 10th, 2009
A look at Deep Purple, through the pages of Live! Music Review, edited by Bill Glahn... from Richie Blackmore's beautiful, quiet, Hendrix-like intro to Smoke on the Water to Into the Fire which Ian Gillan introduces as “Rock 'n' roll with its trousers down...”
No MAFIAA Needed: Independent Artist Download of ...
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