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‘My Sharona’, Composer And Singer, Doug Fieger Dies
Douglas Lars Fieger, 57, lead singer of the rock group The Knack and composer of the 1979 #1 hit My Sharona passed away at his home in Woodland Hills, California on February 14, 2010–Valentine’s Day. Doug had battled lung cancer for six years....
The Loudest Voice Strikes Again
As the San Francisco Chronicle gets thinner and thinner, I find that I spend more time with its RSS feeds than I do with the print edition. Furthermore, I realize that, where local news is concerned (which is the only news I now get from the Chronicle),...
Sticking It to the Poor As Annual Ritual
With all due respect to Karl Marx, there is one situation in which the tragic history of the past does not repeat itself as farce; and that is in the annual cycle of meetings of the World Economic Forum. Every year there are a few voices that try...
Divided We Fall
It is hard to imagine there being much joy in the White House this morning. The Associated Press headline writer applied the adjective “epic” to the Democratic defeat in the Massachusetts Senate election. The lead paragraphs, in the ...
Simon Cowell And Sony Music Entertainment Launch New Global Venture: ‘Syco’
Simon Cowell and Sony Music Entertainment have announced the creation of a new long-term global venture to focus on the production and exploitation of music, television, film and digital content. GD Star Ratingloading...
The Violence of Crowds
Perhaps the most compelling reason for skepticism concerning the “wisdom of crowds” is the strong case of historical evidence that, with the reinforcement of a crowd, the individual is more inclined towards violent action than towards considered...
Making Our Own Listening History
I just finished reading Chloe Veltman’s latest post to her lies like truth blog under the title “Should Composers Conduct Their Own Works?” The claim she was trying to warrant was that, over the course of the two Project San Francisco...
Enlarging the Courtroom
There is a very strong chance that Protect Marriage, the campaign committee behind the Proposition 8 ballot initiative, whose outcome led to a ban on same-sex marriage in California, wanted their efforts to have national impact. Regardless of their...
