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28 Aug 2009 20:33

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Music: RIP DJ AM, a.k.a. Adam Goldstein, dead at 36 of a drug overdose

DJ AM
  • Dead too soon. Fought off death already. 11 months ago, DJ AM would have been one of the luckiest men alive. Today, he’s a man who couldn’t cheat death twice. Adam Goldstein, initially a member of Crazy Town and later a disc jockey to the stars who played numerous private events, was found dead in his New York apartment of a drug overdose today. It wasn’t supposed to happen this way. Goldstein (and Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker) miraculously survived a plane crash in September in which everyone else died. A shocking and sad story for sure. source
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28 Aug 2009 20:20

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Music: BREAKING: RIP DJ AM, celebrity disc-scratcher. Twitter’s shocked

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28 Aug 2009 18:49

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Music: Oasis revisited: Here’s five of Noel Gallagher’s best tunes

  • We admit it. Oasis was pretty much our favorite band between about 1995 and 1998 (when we switched over to Radiohead). Noel Gallagher, who just left the band, is a huge reason for that, of course. His songwriting – with just as much T. Rex in the mix as there was Lennon/McCartney – killed on the first two albums. Here’s five of our favorite Noel vocal tracks. Two are B-sides (including “Acquiesce,” which he sang the chorus on), one is a Noel-sung Chemical Brothers single from the era, one is a lean-era tune we’ll actually defend, and of course, this list wouldn’t be complete without “Don’t Look Back in Anger.” source
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28 Aug 2009 18:25

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Music: Noel leaves Oasis. We’re sure he’s gonna look back in anger.

  • It’s with some sadness and great relief to tell you that I quit Oasis tonight. People will write and say what they like, but I simply could not go on working with Liam a day longer. Apologies to all the people who bought tickets for the shows in Paris, Konstanz and Milan.
  • Oasis guitarist Noel Gallagher • On quitting the band his songwriting made famous. Holy crap. This is a big deal. Oasis holds a special, drunken fighting-with-siblings place in our hearts. We’ll miss them greatly. (Rejected headlines: “Oasis doesn’t live forever”; “Liam wasn’t Noel’s Wonderwall after all”; “Oasis explodes like a champagne supernova in the sky”) • source
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28 Aug 2009 17:46

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Offbeat: Mythical Creatures deserve their own awesome chart

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28 Aug 2009 17:07

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Politics: Huckabee drags Ted Kennedy’s dead body into health care debate

  • It was just laying there in Boston! Huckabee, who is a smart, funny guy whether or not you like his politics, said on his radio show Thursday that Kennedy would have died sooner under Obamacare. “When Sen. Kennedy was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer at 77, did he give up on life and go home to take pain pills and die? Of course not.” We’re not gonna vouch for this, but we are gonna say that now may not be the best time to make this argument. source
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28 Aug 2009 16:51

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Culture: Daily Poll: Will you miss LeVar Burton’s “Reading Rainbow”?

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28 Aug 2009 10:50

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Music: That Bob Dylan Christmas album now has a cover

Bacon in a can

This cover looks like the kind of cover Bob Dylan would use for a Christmas album – traditional, with the air of a tongue implanted firmly in cheek. May we just say that we're actually excited about the prospect of "Christmas of the Heart" (which hits in October)? It has that appeal that the Scarlett Johansson album of Tom Waits covers did for us. source

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28 Aug 2009 10:29

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U.S.: Operation Rescue shakes off George Tiller, protesting abortions again

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    murder     of a abortion-specializing doctor has been notched off by the anti-abortion movement – the May 31 death of George Tiller
  • 60,000 abortions have been performed by LeRoy Carhart over the last two decades; his Bellevue, Nebraska clinic will be targeted for protests Saturday source
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28 Aug 2009 10:12

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Biz: IKEA’s Verdana backlash: The Swedes didn’t see it coming

  • It’s more efficient and cost-effective. Plus, it’s a simple, modern-looking typeface. … I think it’s safe to say we were surprised by the response.
  • IKEA spokeswoman Monika Gocic • On the unthinkable change in font from IKEA’s iconic Futura variant to Verdana. The story’s starting to pick up some (trendy but cheap and wobbly) legs in the mainstream press, with Time now giving the story a little more exposure. Time did a good job covering the angles as to why Verdana sucks – it’s overused, it was designed for small sizes on the Web, and it’s way too associated with Microsoft. Hopefully the nudge in the press might help the company reconsider. • source
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