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There may be radio listeners who think all disk jockeys ought to be in jail. But in Angola, La., two DJs have started their careers behind bars. Big Brother Amin and the Duke of L.A., who broadcast five days a week from Station KLSP, are both armed-robbery convicts. Their target audience is also captive: the 4,645 inmates of Angola's 18,000-acre prison farm. The call letters for KLSP stand for Louisiana State Penitentiary, the "incarceration station" that is the only prisoner-run radio...
...American sculptor who tried to make metaphors of technology, not even Calder, came up with an object as striking as Walter Teague's "Bluebird" radio, 1937-40, whose integration of a spartan constructivist design ethic into an American sense of technology as spectacle -- the big blue glass disk suggesting the ether from which broadcast signals were gathered -- shows how little truth there is in the idea that design is condemned to lag behind "high" art in expressive clarity. We certainly need more shows as thorough and intelligent as this one, to counteract the vulgar mania for "art stars" and remind...
...disk drive awhirring...
...purveyors of this serpentine plot, the cast of Pirates really does have something to sing about. Particularly good are Zeidenberg, who has a voice which sounds like something off a compact disk, and the darkly cherubic David Schrag as the Pirate King...
Sixth Gift Idea: Disk Storage Boxes...