Archive for October 2nd, 2008
Music News You Can Use: Detour Fest, Crazy Comebacks, and Mixtape Madness
LA’s third annual Detour Festival is this Saturday, and the lineup looks delish! Come downtown to see a hodgepodge of over thirty indie and electro artists, including The Mars Volta, Gogol Bordello, Shiny Toy Guns and Cut Copy. The fest is from noon to midnight, best believe I’ll be there the whole time! For set [...]
Amuse Bouche: Is Palin a Figment of Walt Disney’s Imagination?
When Matt Damon compared the vice-presidential candidacy of Alaska governor Sarah Palin to something out of “a really bad Disney movie,” he got the jokesters over at College Humor to thinking. Would we? Could we? Should we? . . .They did, and it’s pretty much the “wackiest family comedy of the year!” My two [...]
Classic Journalism: Martha Gellhorn’s “Dachau”
In our new series on classic pieces of journalism, Emily Henry pulls Martha Gellhorn’s “Dachau” out of the chest for your reading pleasure.
Palin and Couric: The Missing Transcript
CBS has been running Katie Couric’s interviews with vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin throughout the week. We just learned the network has one final interview it has declined to air. Fortunately, we have the transcript.
In Arizona preparing for her debate Thursday, Palin needed to do some last-minute grocery shopping at the local Safeway. Couric accompanied the [...]
Daily News Roundup: Republicans, Let’s Get Ready to Crumble!
Letterman: Top ten things overheard at Palin’s debate camp. Letterman is obviously still livid about McCain’s cancellation last week. So when the going gets bitter, the bitter get—an easy target. Oh, Sarah Palin . . .
If only those darn podiums didn’t get in the way of the main event: Biden versus Barracuda. Watch the two [...]
Obama’s Next Labor Secretary?
I’ll freely admit that I don’t have a hint of blue in my collar. You’d have to go back to Grandpa Nelson before you could find someone in my lineage who has any legitimate claim to really understanding the mentality of labor forces such as steel workers. But I’d say there’s a tendency among good [...]
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