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Zooey & Ben, Twin Cities rock, The Earles, Wunder Boner   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Tuesday, December 30, 2008 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

ZOOEY DESCHANEL is reportedly engaged to Death Cab for Cutie's Ben Gibbard.  To celebrate, here's a snippet of the couple dueting on the Everly Brothers' "(All I Have To Do Is) Dream."

NEW RELEASES: Christmas offerings from The Raveonettes, Rosie Thomas and more are still inexplicably streaming via Spinner.

MAKING THE SCENE: The Current streams an oral history of Twin Cities rock from the mid-1960s through the '90s, through the eyes and ears of key figures from each decade.

STEVE & JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE were featured on NPR's Morning Edition.

BEN LEE is getting married to Ione Skye and getting a grip on his place in the pop world.

BOTH SIDES NOW: Joni Mitchell performs her 1968 song in 1970 and in 2000, for a reflective, final Twofer Tuesday of 2008.

WHITHER POP MUSIC? Brian McCollum writes in the Detroit Free Press: "If there's any defining question to the era's popular music, it's the very definition of "popular." In a sense, we live in an age of two separate but equal music worlds: the old mainstream -- found on radio, TV and magazine covers -- and the new one, which flourishes on the Internet..."

SONGS FROM THE HEART OF A MARKETING PLAN: The NYT's Jon Pareles asks, "What happens to the music itself when the way to build a career shifts from recording songs that ordinary listeners want to buy to making music that marketers can use?"

THE SHORT TAIL: More than 10 million of the 13 million music tracks available on the internet failed to sell a single copy last year, a study has found.

AND YET: Major record labels are hoping to revive the music video business online by creating a single digital destination for their artists' output.

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HEATHER MILLS is being taken to court by her nanny over allegations of sex discrimination and intimidation.

JENNIFER LOPEZ & MARC ANTHONY:  Their reportedly rocky marriage will likely bite the dust right after Valentine's Day, says an insider.

MADONNA & GUY RITCHIE apparently put aside their differences as they visited a Kabbalah Center over the weekend. But Madge ain't looking so good recently.

TOM-KAT UPDATE: Cruise reportedly tells The Sun he wants ten kids.

EMMA WATSON says she is "uncertain" that her future lies in acting and is uncomfortable with her £10 million fortune.

BLACK DYNAMITE: "When 'the man' kills his brother, pumps heroin into the local orphanage, and floods the ghetto with a secret weapon disguised as Anaconda Malt Liquor, there is only one brother bad enough, strong enough, and brave enough to take them on: the legendary Black Dynamite." Here's the trailer.

MICKEY ROURKE is allegedly trash-texting his likely toughest Oscar competitor, Sean Penn.  He apparently hasn't quite worked his role in The Wrestler out of his system.

SALMA HAYEK is the latest closet celebrity smoker to be exposed.

IRAN: Rising numbers of Iranians are spurning marriage and having sex illegally outside wedlock, Iran's state-run body for youth affairs has said.

IRAQ: Brookings Institute analysts find that the Iraqi government has met 7 of the 11 "Iraq index" benchmarks they previously laid out.

IRAQ and the MEDIA: The NYT reports that America's three broadcast network news divisions have stopped sending full-time correspondents to Iraq, and that many newspapers and magazines have also curtailed their presence in Baghdad. What the NYT fails to report is that this hardly qualifies as news.  The number of embedded reporters plunged from somewhere between 570 and 750 when the invasion began in March 2003 to roughly 100 by that Fall to as few as nine by October 2006. "Hotel journalism" was so endemic that In early 2004, an AP reporter told Rolling Stone, "If we know one percent of what's going on in Iraq, we're lucky."  Television airtime devoted to coverage of Iraq plunged dramatically every year, as the daily death tolls consumed an ever-larger share of this dwindling coverage.  As a result, the establishment media blew the story of the Anbar Awakening, and missed major battles during the "surge."  The Baghdad bureau of the NYT was its own soap opera, complete with allegations of rampant infidelity and lead stories being cobbled together from secondary sources of dubious relaibility.  By August 2007, most Americans had more confidence in the US military than the media when it came to Iraq war news. Given this track record, the missing reporters may hardly be missed.  Will they do any better in Afghanistan?

AND NOW A WORD FROM OUR SPONSOR: The Wunder Boner: "My wife would like that..."

CUTTHROAT LAKE TROUT in Yellowstone National Park may be eliminated with Jell-O.

A DENVER DOG is trained as a bed bug inspector. Video at the link.

A GOLDFISH survived for 13 hours on the floor after apparently leaping from its bowl, according to its owner.

BABY BOLIVIAN TITI MONKEYS debut at the Bronx Zoo.  Aww..some pics at the link.

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