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Roughly 12,000 albums are released in an average year, so the announcement late Sunday night that the new Radiohead record, In Rainbows, will be out Oct. 10 is not itself big news. Sure, Radiohead is on a sustained run as the most interesting and innovative band in rock, but what makes In Rainbows important - easily the most important release in the recent history of the music business - are its record label and its retail price: there is none, and there is none...
...dramatically on top of a sharp rock in the forested Carpathian mountains not far from the picturesque medieval Romanian town of Brasov, Bran Castle looks straight out of a fairy tale. But its beauty alone does not explain the fervor of the debate over its ownership. The myth-shrouded castle is also known as Dracula's Castle: according to legend, Vlad "The Impaler" Draculae, a local ruler known for his cruel torture methods (the story goes he liked to have his dinner while watching his opponents painfully die on a stake) used to inhabit Bran Castle. This, however, is merely...
...LITTLE ROCK...
...Before televangelism got so complicated--before Jim Bakker had sex with a church clerk and Jerry Falwell entered politics--there was Rex Humbard, a wide-eyed guitar-playing, TV-loving revival preacher from Little Rock, Ark. In the early '50s, the self-described "electronic evangelist," who helped eulogize fan Elvis Presley, began to develop a following with TV broadcasts that for a time reached more parts of the globe than any other religious show and claimed 20 million viewers. Among the hallmarks of his 5,400-seat, marble-and-glass Cathedral of Tomorrow, a onetime movie theater near Akron, Ohio...
...have to dumb yourself down for the seemingly corny plot threads of the early episodes, as the show handles well-worn set-ups like a great jazz musician taking on the standards. With a brilliant cast of virtual unknowns, stunning cinematography, and a surprisingly appropriate instrumental-rock soundtrack, this little-show-that-could is set to really come into its own. As the Dillon Panthers say before each game, “Clear eyes, full hearts, can’t lose.”PUBLIC SCORN INDEX: 72%“Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great...