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...HGTV and more have broadband channels. (On Animal Planet's, you can watch Web-exclusive series Pet Trends for the latest in canine fashion and high-end doggie snacks.) Canceled shows are getting second lives online (CBS's Love Monkey), while new shows pull double duty (NBC's 30 Rock, about a sketch-comedy show, will run webisodes with skits from the show-within-a-show). NBC and CBS are even planning online-only reality shows from, respectively, record producer David Foster and Survivor honcho Mark Burnett...
...help Africa, the results are still in the balance. The deal - a doubling of aid for the continent by 2010 and debt cancellation for eligible, heavily indebted poor countries, most of them African - was hailed as a breakthrough. For a brief moment, to the sounds of a global rock concert and British [an error occurred while processing this directive] Prime Minister Tony Blair's optimism, the world's focus was on Africa and the hope was that the continent was on the verge of turning itself around. But as the problems of Niger show, Africa's struggles did not miraculously...
...stepped outside to watch the spring birds migrating. He identified the blackpoll warblers perched in the elms outside the Oval Office. And he kept a list of his sightings. Anytime he yearned for the strenuous life outside the White House, Roosevelt cheerfully dragged ambassadors and small boys to climb rock faces and ford streams in Rock Creek Park. Few could keep up with...
SONIC YOUTH RATHER RIPPED For almost three decades, no one has exuded so much cool and produced so few melodies as Sonic Youth. It's not that these New Yorkers are incapable--they're just obstreperous, which makes the arrival of their first great rock album such a shock. They haven't rid themselves of their beloved guitar fuzz, but on songs like Reena and the sublime Jams Runs Free, the noise takes a backseat to focused songcraft and real, live hummable riffs. To top it off, Kim Gordon has emerged from her decade-long Nico-soundalike contest...
TAPES 'N TAPES THE LOON If you like indie rock, you probably own a dozen albums just like this Minneapolis, Minn., band's taut, lo-fi debut--and you will want this one too. The lyrics are from the Pavement school of abstraction ("Kelly the insistor/ Your brother is a blister"), and lead singer Josh Grier has the same dry, almost cracking voice as David Byrne. What's original is Tapes 'n Tapes' ability to spin out compelling little mood fantasias, from the spooky isolation of Omaha to the drunken, bluesy instrumental Crazy Eights. The Loon feels eremitic and weird...