By Martin Bosworth The L.A. Times had an interesting article today about the creators of online newsmagazine Pasadena Now, and their move to outsource city council coverage to reporters based in Bangalore, […]
The Qube boob tube, or remaking reality the Republican way
By Martin Bosworth So apparently some conservatives, unsatisfied with the “well-known liberal bias” of YouTube, have created their own conservative alternative (“conservalternative”?) called QubeTV. Now, if YouTube has a bias towards anything, […]
Save Internet Radio!
By Martin Bosworth Following on Sam’s post from earlier in the week, the Copyright Royalty Board has agreed to extend the deadline of the new fees from May 15 to July 15. […]
The majesty of rock
One of the reasons our mission here at S&R is as broad as it is – our writers address cultural forms like literature and popular music as well as the hardball political […]
A Tale Of Two Web Media Wars
By Martin Bosworth There were two interesting stories today that involve the confluence between media, people, technology, and the ability of these three to influence each other.
Old Men Admiring Themselves…
HEARD the old, old men say, “Everything alters, And one by one we drop away.” They had hands like claws, and their knees Were twisted like the old thorn-trees By the waters. […]
Putting paid to pernicious pundits
By Martin Bosworth A favorite hobby of mine (one which many in the blogosphere share) is bashing on overpaid, overprivileged “culture keepers” that somehow feel they have earned the right to dictate […]
Well, here’s one way of dealing with a rock legend’s legacy…
Courtney Love is selling Kurt Cobain’s things. “My daughter doesn’t need to inherit a giant…bag full of flannel shirts.” Frances Bean, the daughter, will get a sweater, a guitar and – the […]
Scholar/Rogue of the week: Kurt Vonnegut
Note our new masthead. Our newest scholar rogue is Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007). Hi Ho. Most of you know Vonnegut as the author of the beloved counter culture sort of sci-fi/sort of philosophical/sort […]
The Paris Review Vonnegut Interviews
Kurt Vonnegut’s dead, in case you hadn’t heard…. So it goes. Vonnegut, the author of counter culture classics such as Slaughterhouse-Five, Cat’s Cradle, and Breakfast of Champions, books which were considered required […]
