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...Snow will work at his Fairfax County home next week, and take over on May 8. One of his first acts was to give an exclusive interview to Fox News on Wednesday night, and Washington managing editor Brit Hume, a former ABC News White House correspondent, asked if he anticipated or hoped to be liked by the press corps...
...common enough story in the music world: an aging artist loudly insults the current style, sending waves through the whole scene. But this time, the feuding parties aren’t Nas and Benzino.Barry Burns, the guitarist for Scottish post-rock band Mogwai, called recent BRIT Award winners James Blunt and Coldplay’s Chris Martin a “twat” and a “fuckface,” respectively. MCs have been capped for much less.But given all the news coverage and corresponding hype—and increased record sales—accompanying even...
...rare but gratifying moment. The arena rammed with music executives momentarily fell into a stunned silence. Then, the words: "And the 1999 Brit Award for best breakthrough act goes to: Belle and Sebastian" percolated through fogged brains, and noiseless shock gave way to intense chatter. Some questioned the result, but most just wanted to know, "Who the hell are Belle and Sebastian?" One exec thought they might be a firm of music lawyers. Pete Waterman, producer of Steps - the chart-topping pop puppets perceived as shoo-ins for the award - demanded an investigation. And so the bookish, reclusive Glasgow group...
...press briefings, Cheney deadpanned, "He looks like he's having fun." Cheney knew what to do, being acquainted, as anyone in his position would be, with that most familiar and degrading of political rituals, the act of public penitence. Once that was accomplished, through the ministry of Fox News' Brit Hume, "the President was satisfied," said someone who was involved in the discussions. "I wouldn't have said that last weekend or Monday." A friend of the Vice President's reports that Cheney "believes that he handled this in an appropriate way. But he recognizes that the rest...
...digital era, says Mike McGuire, research director at Gartner. "They're innovative." Yes, EMI benefited from big-selling albums by artists like the freestyle cartoon band Gorillaz and Coldplay (who nabbed the best album award for X&Y and best single for Speed of Sound at the Brit Awards in London last week). But the digital tide has hit - not only in the form of Apple Computer's iPod, but also through mobile-phone features, including ringtones, ringtunes (the actual songs) and ringbacks. Everyone from mobile-phone operators to supermarket chains like Tesco to coffee purveyors like Starbucks is offering...