| New Spielberg interview in Rolling Stone
Steven Spielberg is featured in a new interview with Rolling Stone on the event of the magazine's 40th anniversary. Founded in 1967, the periodical is celebrating its four decades in rock and pop culture journalism through chats with baby boomer luminaries and notables including Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger, Bob Dylan, Jack Nicholson, Jane Fonda, and many more musicians, writers, and artists.The Spielberg interview is a terrific read, as he touches on his life in the late 1960s (making films, avoiding the Vietnam draft), the influence of music and Rolling Stone in his life and work, his generation's influence on cinema (in which Spielberg respectfully puts the late Pauline Kael in her place for accusing Spielberg and George Lucas for infantilizing American film), politics in the 1960s and today, and the future of film production and presentation.The 40th anniversary issue of Rolling Stone is now available at local booksellers everywhere.
Review: Symphony blends pop, classical styles well (1:02 pm)
Thursday night at Atherton Auditorium, the Stockton Symphony presented the final Classics concert of their 80th anniversary season in celebratory style, with what Christopher Brubeck called a glorious collision of two cultures. Both works on the program the premiere of Brubecks Music Is the Power, and Beethovens Ninth Symphony blend elements of popular culture with established orchestral tradition. Under the baton of Peter Jaffe, the program opened with Brubecks piece, a song suite for chorus, orchestra, jazz combo and vocal soloist. Given its eclectic mix of performing forces and lyrics penned by area high school students, this work had the potential to be either a provocative blend of styles, or an unfortunate mash-up of sound and sentiment. The audience waited expectantly.
Rolling Stone Cover-to-Cover DVD Box Set Available Fall 2007 Will ...
NEW YORK (Bondi Digital Publishing) - Bondi Digital Publishing, the first and only company solely focused on digital magazine archive products, today announced an exclusive publishing and software partnership with Wenner Media, publisher of the world-renowned Rolling Stone magazine. As part of this exclusive deal, New York-based Bondi Digital Publishing will convert the iconic magazine's entire printed history to digital format and use its proprietary digital archiving platform to publish Rolling Stone Cover-to-Cover: The First 40 Years. The unique searchable DVD will contain digital replicas of every article, review, and photograph just as they appeared on the pages of the famed magazine. To be released in the Fall of 2007 in celebration of its 40th anniversary, Rolling Stone Cover-to-Cover will be the first digital archive of the magazine.
Virginia Tech shooting victim known as loving, forgiving Christian ...
BLACKSBURG, VIRGINIA — On her MySpace page, Lauren McCain, aged 20, of Hampton, Virginia, who was an undergraduate majoring in international studies, listed "the love of my life" as Jesus Christ. Her family said McCain, who was among those killed in the Virginia Tech school shootings earlier this week, became a Christian some time ago. "Her life since that time has been filled with His love that continued to overflow to touch everyone who knew her," the family said in a statement. Her uncle Jeff Elliott told The Oklahoman newspaper that she was an avid reader, was learning German and had almost mastered Latin. She was home-schooled, he said, and had worked at a department store for about a year to save money for college. She spent several years of her childhood in Oklahoma, but her father's Navy career also took the family to Florida, Texas and then to Virginia.
Who can you trust? Wiki-truth a tricky subject
One of the last remaining virtues of newsprint is that once I attribute that quote to Jack Nicholson in "A Few Good Men" (the greatest bad movie of all time), no one can alter that statement after black ink meets white paper. If this were a Wikipedia entry, any jerk could type a rebuttal that would have you believe Jack Nicklaus said that during a few good Masters' rounds. Welcome to Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia that evidently is devoted to being the world's most detailed and exhaustive rumor mill. Go to Wikipedia.com if you want to read their defense on how standards of fairness and accuracy are maintained. But the truth is that any journalist who uses "I double-checked it on Wikipedia" as a defense will soon be selling scented candles at the strip mall. Still, Wikipedia is an entertaining and not entirely unreliable source for pop culture minutiae.
Beethoven's beloved Fifth transcends pop culture
The opening four notes of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony have to be the best known four notes in all of music. Like the Mona Lisa or "To be or not to be," they have descended from the upper reaches of high art to become a permanent fixture in popular culture. .
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