It has a fan, it won't work without a monitor, and it contains a 750GB hard drive&mdash;for some audiophiles, that's a trifecta of reasons <I>not</I> to buy the McIntosh MS750 music server ($6000).

It has a fan, it won't work without a monitor, and it contains a 750GB hard drive&mdash;for some audiophiles, that's a trifecta of reasons <I>not</I> to buy the McIntosh MS750 music server ($6000).

It has a fan, it won't work without a monitor, and it contains a 750GB hard drive&mdash;for some audiophiles, that's a trifecta of reasons <I>not</I> to buy the McIntosh MS750 music server ($6000).

It has a fan, it won't work without a monitor, and it contains a 750GB hard drive&mdash;for some audiophiles, that's a trifecta of reasons <I>not</I> to buy the McIntosh MS750 music server ($6000).

Who knows? <A HREF="http://www.shinealightmovie.com/">This</A&gt; might be good.

Lawrence Lanaham <A HREF="http://www.cjr.org/cover_story/secrets_of_the_city.php">goes to Baltimore, Maryland</A>, as well as <I>Bodymore, Murdaland</I> to discover if David Simon's dyspeptic portrait of newspapers in crisis in this season's <I>The Wire</I> is realistic.

I was listening to Radiohead’s new album, <I>In Rainbows</I>. It’s really as great as all the rock critics say. More than that (from this blog’s angle), it’s as harmonically and rhythmically sophisticated as just about any work of modern jazz. (I’m not saying it’s <I>like</I> jazz; rather, that on any musical level, the purest jazz purist has no grounds for looking down on it.) The album sent me to my music closet to take another listen to Brad Mehldau’s cover of Radiohead’s “Knives Out,” from his trio’s 2005 CD on the Nonesuch label, <I>Day Is Done</I>. I listened through all 10 tracks—which include, besides two Mehldau compositions, Lennon & McCartney’s “Martha My Dear” and “She’s Leaving Home,” Burt Bacharach’s “Alfie,” Paul Simon’s “50 Ways to Leave Your Lover,” and the title tune by Nick Drake.