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...Though gloriously jarring in its time, the Sex Pistols' lone studio album, 1977's Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols, sounds relatively conventional today in comparison to the countless legions of acolytes. Rife with Steve Jones' signature beefy guitar riffs and Rotten's venomous social commentary, Never Mind The Bollocks is rightly hailed as a classic that helped shake rock'n'roll out of its shaggy doldrums, re-inserting a palpable whiff of danger and defiance into an art-form grown shallow and pompous. Never mind the narrow mores of tongue-clicking punk rock purists...
...GLASS Collectible glass is on the rise. And some of the best pieces are made from recycled bottles. Los Angeles design studio Artecnica has introduced tranSglass, an environmentally conscious line of glassware that has landed in MOMA's tabletop collection. London-based artisans Tord Boontje and Emma Woffenden have molded and handcrafted the hard, sharp, clean forms that retain the original colors of the shards fished from the Dumpster...
...rooms. From wacky comical styles and fantastical street art to Japanese manga and simply spaced-out fantasies, each residence is an individual work of art. Madrid's Hotel Puerta América has also gone eclectic. The boutique's 12 floors have been transformed by 19 architecture studios from 13 countries. Each level showcases a different avant-garde interior-design concept, from Zaha Hadid's sinuous lines and fluid spaces on the first floor to an exercise in geometry and light by London-based Plasma Studio's Eva Castro and Holger Kehne on the fourth. Other designs include Teresa Sapey...
...earth-shattering. They will sell only shows produced by their parent companies (including, for NBC, shows on sister cable channels USA and Sci Fi), because negotiations with outside producers would require haggling over fees. (Thus no My Name Is Earl for NBC, which buys it from Fox's production studio.) But the deals may multiply quickly. DirecTV has said it is pursuing deals with other networks, and Fox, its sister company in News Corp., is experimenting with distributing shows online. NBC and others are exploring an arrangement like ABC'S with iTunes. And while the networks are selling the same...
FOUND LIABLE. ROBERT BLAKE, 72, irascible TV actor of Baretta fame; in the wrongful-death civil suit filed by relatives of his wife Bonny Lee Bakley, 44, who in 2001 was shot to death outside a restaurant in Studio City, Calif.; eight months after being acquitted of murder charges in a criminal trial; by a jury in Burbank, Calif. Blake was ordered to pay Bakley's four children $30 million...