Have you ever found yourself wondering what a statistical breakdown of all the songs in Rock Band 2 might look like while in the midst of one of the game's heavy metal power solos? Admittedly, that's not the most hard rockingest thing we've ever heard -- still, you may want to point your mathematica...

Last week, I reviewed a Christmas comp that was the last present I received last December. This CD was the very first present I received. Back in November, my good friend Martin Johns sent me his annual Christmas comps (which I'll be reviewing some time down the road). Inside the box was a wrapped C...

Explode Into Colors is a band out of Olympia featuring “three weird aunts”– one of which is Lisa of longtime Catbird favorite Kickball (the other members are Claudia Meza of Japanther and Heather Treadway of Tender Forever). Kill Rock Stars will be putting out a single later this s...

Written by Darrell Etherington. Lately I’ve been on a bit of a streamlining kick. That is, I’ve been trying to find simple, elegant solutions to multiple problems in one convenient package. Easier said than done, unfortunately. The problem is getting everything you need in one place, in ...

In our continued effort to understand the American moviegoer’s psyche, we uncover a diamond of truth revealed to us this weekend during the Watchmen premiere. At the expense of throwing away originality, we love stories that we already know. Zack Snyder’s adaptation of the greatest graph...

Today, I learned some sad news .  I found out this morning from Polevault Power that Trackshark - a web site that has had a dominating presence in covering collegiate track and field for the past seven years - will no longer be online. Photographer Kirby Lee with Trackshark Editor and Founder Tom B...

Research 2000 for Daily Kos. 3/2-5. All adults. MoE 2% (2/23-6 results): FAVORABLE UNFAVORABLE NET CHANGE PRESIDENT OBAMA 69 (71) 26 (25) -3 PELOSI: 41 (42) 38 (37) -2 REID: 35 (34) 43 (43) +1 McCONNELL: 21 (22) 51 (50) -2 BOEHNER: 15 (16) 53 (53) -1 CONGRESSIONAL DEMS: 45 (46) 46 (45) -2 CONGRESSIO...

This is the very last Christmas CD I received as a present last December. It came from my best friend Joel who took a brief moment from his Indianapolis holiday getaway with his charming wife Samantha to check out a used CD store to see if there was something inside that I didn't have. Joel actually...

You may wonder why any story we grab from UK’s The Sun is automatically taken with a shovel of salt over the right shoulder, but I’ve got a fairly reasonable explanation. The most obvious reason is that they are known rumor-mongers. The second most obvious reason is that whenever I go to...

It's been just over two months since the CTA finished it's "three-tracking" project at Fullerton and Belmont on the Red, Brown and Purple lines. On Dec. 20, the CTA opened the fourth track at Belmont, signaling the official end of the three-track project. To its credit, the CTA fin...