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...road." Also trying to move into the space created by the demise of the P-I is SeattleCourant.com, launched by University of Washington journalism student Keith Vance. "My guiding principle is to do traditional print journalism that is simply published on a computer," he says. Vance believes mom-and-pop Web operations are the future of journalism. (Read "This Journalist Is Brought...
...rhetoric. "We'll stick it out," she said of Britain's current economic difficulties, "if we have a picture that is so strong we can smell it." Mixed metaphors aside, pollsters shouldn't write her off just yet. In an age when people will pay to vote for aspiring pop stars more readily than they'll travel to the voting booths, the jury on the Jury Team is still...
Eurovision, which most famously gave the world ABBA, is a much-anticipated annual pop music competition with contestants representing countries from Iceland to Turkey, from Morocco to Israel. No one takes the contest more seriously than the Russians. Last year, for example, they sneered when Ireland's representative in the Eurovision finals was a hand puppet named Dustin the Turkey. Russia's own contestant was Dima Bilan, a star so established that a BBC commentator sniped that it was as if Britain had sent Amy Winehouse to the competition (well, if she was allowed to travel). Bilan...
...Europe are allowed to phone or text in their rankings of the contestants, with the proviso that a country's voters cannot vote for their own country's representative. Yet this has led controversial bloc voting in an effort to prevent others from winning. Says Alexander Panaiotov, a Russian pop star: "It's the biggest musical event of the year. Of course it's politicized." A case in point, he says, is Russia and Ukraine. "Russia doesn't care if, say, Bosnia wins, but if Ukraine wins, it's a scandal." Ukraine and Russia have been scrapping ferociously over...
...agonizing wait is finally over. Last week, the College Events Board announced that pop singer-songwriter Sarah Bareilles and electronic group Ratatat will be performing at Yardfest this year on April 19. Whether the event will be successful has yet to be seen. We hope, however, that the CEB has learned its lesson from the disastrous Girl Talk pep rally this fall. Bareilles and Ratatat are a departure from the series of outdated artists that the CEB has booked over the past couple of years. With Gavin DeGraw and Wu Tang Clan on stage last year, and Third Eye Blind...