What I'm about to describe here sounds almost like a parody of suburb street-development-by-plumbers, but this is what's on the table tonight at the Board of Public Works Meeting: *LETTER FOR GREENDALE RELATIVE TO A JOINT APPLICATION FOR S. 51ST STREET – RAWSON AVENUE TO COLLEGE AVENUE FOR...

GoogleMap image uploaded with plasq's Skitch! We have a fairly serious transparency problem here in Franklin. The city website is fairly incomprehensible, and staffing shortages mean that it'll be a long time before resources can be devoted to making it easier for people to know what meeting...

It was bad enough when a Fox News producer was fired for possessing child pornography. But now a former NPR correspondent has been charged in a child porn case. The problem is media-wide! The Department of Justice says that David Malakoff, who resigned last June as a science editor and correspondent...

What. The. Fuck. Wow, 2009 has thus far been a serious, serious, serious kick in the balls to independent music fans. I couldn't find anything about it on the label's site, but Pitchfork seems to have some details here. UPDATE: Greg Kot of the Tribune (and Sound Opinions) clears things up a bit. The...

Apparently now that the LHC has Google doing its bidding, it's taking it easy and won't become operational anytime soon. Unless September is considered soon, in which case, shit, I won't live to see the finale of LOST. The Large Hadron Collider could be switched back on in September - a year after i...

This weekend was *good*, with one notable exception (more on that later). It's been a while since I've been able to say that honestly and really mean good in the true sense of the word, but this one had goodness all over it. For one thing, the weather was finally really nice. It's hard to believe th...

One Of These Days, These Days Will End So, remember how I made the Silver Jews record my album of the year, and talked about what a great, positive, revitalised record it is, looking forward to grand things in store? Well turns out I may have spoken too soon, on the latter point at least. According ...

Just wanted to chime in with my disappointment at the news of the departure of Mick Harvey from Nick Cave's ace backing band, The Bad Seeds. It stung when Blixa Bargeld left in 2003, but this one really hurts. Harvey's been involved since the beginning, and he's always been a stolid live presence in...

Some news from pitchfork.com that bears repeating. Apparently, Mick Harvey has left the Bad Seeds. He and Nick Cave have been making rad music together for well over 20 years now, going back to pre-Bad Seeds, pre-Birthday Party days. This is definitely unfortunate news, but I don't think we should w...

2009? When did that happen? It was 1999 about 5minutes ago. Let me tell you, my absence from this blog is a good indication of just how badly our holiday season went. I can't go into details on the internet, but here are some high level highlights - the poor economy finally hits home, there's a deat...