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The Hunt For New Music: Van Morrison does very few live concerts as all true Van Morrison fans know. And that’s precisely why this Memorial Day Weekend we’re putting up a selection of live Van Morrison Performances. This one is from a live concert at the BBC. It’s long–over 50 minutes–but superb, from BBC Four in …
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Paying Attention: There is a lot of news (from every possible corner of the globe) along with a massive number of people, companies, causes, and products vying for your attention on the internet. Here’s a list of some sites that you really should have at the top of your bookmark file. BBC Great source for …
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Paying Attention: The big news in tech (besides the coming Alibaba IPO) is the sudden, out-of-nowhere deal that involves Apple (flush with cash) buying the headphone/streaming music company Beats (a venture of Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine). Dre and Iovine will do very, very well in the transaction–not that they weren’t doing well already–but as always …
Press Clippings: In the pre-digital age, the primary method for marketing films was the film poster. As with all things creative in Hollywood, there were masters of the art of producing the film poster. Two of the very best who ever worked in the medium were Drew Struzan and Bob Peak. I never had the chance to …
Paying Attention: A modern F1 car is amazingly intricate, advanced, and complicated. Designed to a specification (a “formula”) dictated by the F.I.A., (Fédération Internationale de L’Automobile, the ruling/sanctioning body for most international racing) that all who hope to participate in the F1 series have to adhere to (and…it’s not easy to have your team/entry accepted…the …
Press Clippings: The biggest tech IPO of the year is coming–maybe the biggest tech IPO of all time. Best to be informed now, because there may not be a chance to buy on the dip as with Facebook and Twitter. Below, required background reading on a new-to-America company that you may not have heard of …
Press Clippings: Unless you are paying zero attention to the stock market, technology, the internet, massive merchandising trends, and the coming showdown between Amazon dot com and Alibaba dot com (and if you’re reading this piece, you are not in the zero attention category), you know two things: Alibaba, China’s online shopping behemoth is going …
Press Clippings: Ferrari has followed it’s very successful California model–the Company’s first front-engine, V8, retractable hard top, convertible–with a new model, the Ferrari California T which features the same, proven architecture but with new technology on everything from the suspension to the infotainment system. The car was revealed on 12 February 2014 and was being …
Press Clippings: Updates from the world’s press on Malaysia Airlines Flt. 370. Another Sound in the Ocean (Source: CBS News) Robots Search for Missing Airliner (Source: The Guardian) Malaysia Airlines Lost Black Box Data Once Before (Source: NBC News) How Far Down Can It Be ? (Source: CNN) Malaysia Airlines Zeroing In After Latest Pings …
Press Clippings: David Letterman’s announcement last week that he would retire in 2015 brings an end to era of late night television. Leno went first, in the early part of 2014, and now Letterman will leave CBS–a network which had no late night presence until Dave joined it–in 2015. The old guard will be …