In your blustery Wednesday media column: the newspaper industry burns, News Corp can't handle hardcore music, NPR needs more black people, and the NYT sells a jet: What is happening in the land of dying newspapers today? Only the usual tragedy and grief. The Miami Herald is laying off a fifth of its...

Filed under: Wings The parent company of Gulfsteam jets, General Dynamics announced this week that it would be laying off 1,200 workers nationwide. The workers will be a mix of full-time employees and contractors. More workers will also be put on an unpaid leave for at least a month this summer as G...

Kanye West has lost his damn mind! He must have in trying to suggest we should cut Chris Brown some slack after he beat up Rihanna but he’s not the first black star to suggest that we ease up on Brown. First it was Terrence Howard and his insane comment that beating up women is “ ju...

     Hi, everybody.  Just want you to know that we're back.  We returned last night, Thursday night, around 7:00.  Our flights were hassle-free, and our luggage stayed with us.  About the trip in India itself, I'll be telling you more.  It's early here, jet la...

About 6 months ago, I moved to a region of California referred to as the Inland Empire (or the "IE" if you're really in the know). I'm slowly getting used to West Coast suburbia. It is quite the switch from life north of the 210 in good old Pasadena. I went from knowing everyone in...

Last we saw Mystery Jets , circa 2006 at Mercury Lounge, they were crusty youth who weren't sure whether they wanted to be Dexy's Midnight Runners or King Crimson. Fast forward two years and we're at a mostly packed Bowery Ballroom and a lot has changed for the band. Gone is 50-something...

I’ve noted many times that the NFL Combine is the most overrated event in sports when it comes to gauging talent, yet every year I get caught up in what a guy runs or what a guy jumps or what a guy throws (combine studs that probably went a bit high: JaMarcus Russell, Donte Stallworth, and jus...

I think you should check out Michael Gray new article, Using Directories for Search Engine Reputation Management, because it is a very interesting article — essential reading — I have only excerpted a wee bit of it here because I think you need to go over there and spend some time with t...

Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny Trejo have both been announced as joining Sylvester Stallone’s The Expendables.  To that I can only say… sweet.  And to that I can only add… it’s not too late Jean Claude!  Apologize for your egotistical idiocy and get your ass to South Amer...

The New York Jets' gin-blossomed legend offered some candid thoughts on his old team and, right now, he doesn't like the Jets' quarterback situation at all. Obviously, he was a more interesting interview subject before he befriended Bill W., but he's still got some pluck in him without the booze . T...