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...That's where I feel the situation with Verizon and its media partner Microsoft make things a little bit rocky. Don't get me wrong - it was very easy for me to preview and download a new Tom Petty song right over the air, and even move it to the removable MicroSD card. However, when I went to install the V Cast Music software on my PC, in order to load songs to the phone, the software refused to install. It turns out I had Windows Media Player 11, but the V Cast Music software can only run on Windows...
...last week's preview performances of Love - the new Beatles show staged by the Montreal theater troupe Cirque du Soleil at the Mirage resort in Las Vegas - a distinguished-looking gent with an elegant manner and Toscanini mane gazed raptly at the proceedings. He swayed his long frame to the songs, clapped along with "Hey Jude" and, when a huge bed sheet whooshed up from the stage to eventually cover most of the 2,000 spectators, lifted his arms with an eager reverence to touch the fabric, as if it were a gigantic Shroud of Turin...
...book tour for Crashing the Gate kicked off in Los Angeles with a cocktail party co-hosted by liberal luminary Norman Lear and bloggeress to the stars Arianna Huffington - a preview of the landscape inside the gate, perhaps. Boston is his second-to-last stop, and the bar where Moulitsas and Armstrong will speak is filled to capacity - at least a hundred people are there, an organizer tells me. Even Moulitsas can't get in. He and Armstrong stand on the sidewalk while admirers push copies of the book at him and ask him to pose for snapshots. Moulitsas...
...well-attended BookExpo buzz panel, Vikram Chandra's massive debut novel (1,000-plus pages) was championed by HarperCollins' publisher, who promised that the book will "do for Indian literature what 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' did for South American literature." Amazon.co.uk gives a preview of the tome: "This epic novel draws the reader deep into the life of detective Sartaj Singh and into the criminal underworld of Ganesh Gaitonde, the most wanted gangster in India...
...nervous center at the moment," jokes Australian architect Peter Lonergan, the commission's project manager, who for the past year has employed up to 10 scenic painters, enamel firers and glass cutters to bring the artists' dreams to reality. Late last month, Time was given an exclusive preview of the work in its final stages before being freighted off to Paris for installation. With 2,500 sq m of public art, "every square millimeter involves a number of really intense processes that have to be perfect," says Lonergan. Just as fine have been the cultural calibrations of the project...