We love Neil Young. Great musician. Belongs on the Mt. Rushmore of singer-songwriters. But it seems like Neil has a bee in his bonnet about Apple, the iPod and iTunes. Did they ruin the music business? Is Apple evil? Maybe. Maybe it was the Internet. But Apple didn’t invent MP3 READ MORE >
This is what we’re spinning at the Boathouse this week and it’s a gem. Ray LaMontagne’s third album Gossip in the Grain “touches upon a range of styles and musical settings– spanning pastoral folk, railroad blues, front porch country, and plangent balladry.” One iTunes reviewer says he “writes like Dylan, READ MORE >
Once again the lines between professional athletics, entertainment and celebrity have blurred. Witness the indefinite suspension of Dallas Stars troublemaker Steve Avery. Maybe you heard. Before a game in Canada, Avery walked up to reporters, made sure the cameras were rolling and mics were hot, and offered a crude and READ MORE >
Though it was released in 2006, there isn’t a more relevant movie today than Who Killed the Electric Car? A top screenwriter on his best day couldn’t dream up a story of greed, fear and ineptitude like this one. You’ll laugh. You’ll cry. You’ll mostly cry. Maybe the heads of READ MORE >
Italian furniture company Tumidei Spa has taken the loft concept to elevated levels with its beautiful and ingenious Tiramolla bedroom collection that allows for maximum flexibility, fantasy and fun. They are truly a marvel of modern design. What wouldn’t kids do to get sent to rooms like these?
Give it up to Jenaé of Jackson, Ohio for taking what’s cool about YouTube and BzzAgent and launching Girl in Your Shirt, a site where she pimps your company while wearing your shirt. Will it work? Will she become a media darling? The site is new so the jury is READ MORE >
Stuff a stocking and clog an artery with the yummy goodness that is Baconnaise. That’s right; Justin and Dave think everything should taste like bacon so they’ve added their bacon-flavored mayonnaise to a product line that already includes bacon-flavored salt. You hear that cauliflower! Prepare for a bacon bath! Check READ MORE >
Listen up Rachel Ray. And this goes for you too, Emeril, Giada and Naked Chef. Your cookbooks are fish wrap compared to the culinary wonder that is The Twinkies Cookbook. Any hack can whip up a chicken dish. But could you dream up Twinkie Sushi, Twinkie Burrito, or the unbelievably READ MORE >
Who has time to sit for an oil painting anymore? That’s the question the folks at MyDaVinci.com were answering when they launched this cool site. Just send them a photo and their artists will turn it in anything from pop art or Warhol-style panels, to a sketch or caricatures. There READ MORE >
A fun little site in the spirit of other web curiosities like Twitter, antipodr allows you to locate the opposite point of any other point on the globe. Why? Why not? It’s fun. Check it out.