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EMI Takes Classical Music Online
Jason Victor Serinus  |  Sep 30, 2007  |  0 comments
EMI and Virgin Classics, one of the oldest and two of the most respected names in classical music, have undertaken a series of audiophile-friendly initiatives designed to strengthen their online presence. At the start of September, the labels together launched the EMI and Virgin Classics Listening Club. Open to music lovers who purchase new EMI or Virgin Classics discs marked with the Opendisc logo, the club's "exclusive" online environment offers participants the opportunity to build relationships with some of the labels' top artists.
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Wes Phillips
Nothing to Look at Here!
Wes Phillips  |  Sep 28, 2007  |  0 comments
Bagheera is a past mistress at the art of cat fu, the ability to comfortably inhabit spaces too small for her to fit into.
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Ostentatious Camouflage
Wes Phillips  |  Sep 28, 2007  |  0 comments
Huckleberry, on the other hand, practices his cat fu mind-tricks out in the open—where they aren't at all effective.
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Once More With Feeling—Or Else!
Wes Phillips  |  Sep 28, 2007  |  0 comments
Rupert Christiansen sings the praises of hymns.
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Nashville Katz
Wes Phillips  |  Sep 27, 2007  |  2 comments
Making Blonde on Blonde.
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Is Time a Political Concept?
Wes Phillips  |  Sep 27, 2007  |  0 comments
Sometimes it is. "In theory, the planet has 24 time zones. Actually, there are about 39, and they are still hotly debated. Within the past month, President Hugo Chavez has talked of moving Venezuela’s clocks forward half an hour, and Indian scientists have urged their government to do the same."
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Neil Gaiman is an Otter
Wes Phillips  |  Sep 27, 2007  |  0 comments
The Guardian interviews Gaiman for no reason other than that he's Neil freaking Gaiman. Works for me.
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Weird Scenes Inside the Goldmine
Wes Phillips  |  Sep 27, 2007  |  0 comments
The Guardian has published some of the greatest interviews of the 20th century on its site. Do not miss Frost/Nixon—and see the play, as well, if you get a chance. I saw it on Broadway with Frank Langella and Michael Sheen and it was one of those moments of theatrical greatness you'll remember in your dotage.
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Fred Kaplan
Mingus on DVD
Fred Kaplan  |  Sep 26, 2007  |  3 comments
I haven’t watched all seven of Naxos’ Jazz Icons discs—a DVD box-set of televised European concerts by great jazz musicians in the 1960s—but one of them, Charles Mingus: Live in ’64, is a must-have: two hours of music, videotaped in Belgium, Norway, and Sweden in April 1964, featuring one of Mingus’ most electrifying sextets, including Eric Dolphy, Clifford Jordan, Johnny Coles, Dannie Richmond, and Jaki Byard.
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Stephen Mejias
Polk I-Sonic
Stephen Mejias  |  Sep 26, 2007  |  5 comments
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