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Huckleberry, on the other hand, has mastered the air of angelic innocence.

Daniel J. Levitin, author of <I>This Is Your Brain on Music</I>, has a website with a bunch of interesting music-related material, as well as a nifty little animated feature on his book.

Watched James Brown's widow Tomi (not Tammy, she’s touchy), on <I>Larry King</I> last nite. Larry, who was at low ebb last nite and looked real bored by being used as a platform in a marriage dispute, wasn't buying any of it. Larry, bad manicure and all, looks like he's interviewed enough grieving, flaky&ndash;as&ndash;hell rock star widows.

Year's best sports-related story&mdash;2007 is going to have to really be wild to better this one.

As we <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/news/032706ces">reported last March</A>, the Consumer Electronics Association decided to move the "high-performance audio" and "high-performance home theater" exhibits of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) to Las Vegas' Venetian Hotel in 2007. Here, then, in a blatant attempt to scoop my show-reporting <I>Stereophile</I> colleagues, is my picture of the new CES venue. I actually took this picture last year, not in anticipation of the change in show venue, but simply because I’m a sucker for the ersatz-European ambience of Las Vegas hotel-casinos like the Venetian. And whatever the advantages/disadvantages of the Venetian for demonstrating audio equipment, you have to admit that it’s picturesque!

It's a sensory-motor memory thing.

"Stuff that behaves a little bit outside the norm . . . ." Sounds like a pretty good description of my friends.