For far longer than I've been attending the January Consumer Electronics Show (CES), it has overlapped with the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo. Indeed, in the old days when the high-end portion of CES was housed in the Sahara hotel and casino, the two shows shared the same venue, leading to one of the more bizarre culture collisions known to modern man (one was certainly never in doubt as to who was there for which show).
Bill Greene's photo of a curator examining Whistler's Mother is one of the <I>Boston Globe</I>'s best photographs of 2006. See the shot and listen to Greene tell how he got it.
The 2007 Consumer Electronics Show may be officially over, but you can still read our on-going coverage at our <A HREF="http://blog.stereophile.com/ces2007/">show blog</A>.
For a cat with an absolutely empty head, Huckleberry sure can <I>look</I> contemplative when the camera comes out.
Bagheera is really a sweet-natured kitty, but she does get irritated with me and my camera.
Conductor Kenneth Woods guides us through Mahler's <I>Kindertotenleider</I>. Articles like this 'un are why the web was invented.
According to www.after50health.com "The classic part of a classical music is that it will not distract the attention of the listener and at the same time be able to instill relaxed feeling in the minds of listener."
No, that's a $2900 <I>painting</I> of an extension cord—and, God help me, I <I>want</I> it.
I'm covering CES in Las Vegas this week, so posting will be sporadic. Check out <I>Stereophile</I>'s <A HREF="http://blog.stereophile.com/ces2007/">2007 CES Report</A> blog for the latest on high-end audio and the people who make it.
On December 13, 2006, the US Federal Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the August 8, 2005 grant of summary judgment in favor of AudioQuest, finding that the district court had correctly terminated Monster Cable's January 5, 2004 assertion that AudioQuest's Dielectric-Bias System (DBS) willfully infringed upon Monster's Bias Circuit System (BCS) patent (US Patent No.5,307,416 for Audio Interconnect & Speaker Cable, "Bias Circuit System").