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THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE… …WITH NON-BREAKING NEWS ABOUT LONDON: A massive intelligence investigation is under way to find those responsible for the closely co-ordinated bomb attacks in London. The Wall Street Journal…

OBVIOUSLY, THIS SHOULD NOT BE YOUR SITE FOR BREAKING NEWS. But if you want to dive into the details of the despicable terror attacks o­n London, Instapundit is rounding up round-ups. Europhobia…

DUNGEN, everyone's favorite Swedish prog-psych-metal band, is profiled in the San Francisco Bay Guardian.CURE FRONTMAN ROBERT SMITH has seen the future and it ain't pretty! (Link via Sylvia Hauser)ON THE PITCHFORK: Sufjan…

BIG STAR, SQUEEZE, ECHO, CHEAP TRICK and more have been covered live by the Decemberists. My Old Kentucky Blog has the downloads, though I know you won't indulge because home downloading is…

[NOTE: If you're checking in for the first time this week, keep scrolling past today's entry for Fourth of July pics and notes of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's retirement.]THE POSIES ARE NOT…

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY FROM THE CITY OF BIG SHOULDERS!Here are fireworks looking out over Lake Michigan toward Navy Pier……and a view from the ground. A lot of cities have fireworks, but…How many…

SO LONG TO SANDRA D: By now, I'm sure most have heard that Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor is retiring. Those interested in the story will want to monitor the SCOTUS…

THE HOLIDAY WEEKEND STARTS HERE:WHAT WOULD INDEPENDENCE DAY BE without the Declaration of Independence? And movies about alien attacks? Plus, Snopes reviews the fates of the signers of the Declaration.JACK WHITE is…

WAR OF THE WORLDS: Given my daily chronicling of the foibles of Tom Cruise, it's o­nly fair that I report that I thought the movie was a fairly solid popcorn movie. The…

FOUNTAINS OF WAYNE'S Out of State Plates came out yesterday. It's a double-disc of non-album material — two new tracks, live tracks and B-sides (for those who care what's o­n the flip…