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...threshold for SINEAD O'CONNOR to make it onto this page is pretty high. When you've enraged Frank Sinatra, defaced a picture of Pope John Paul II on national television and later been "ordained" a Catholic priest, no mere dustup/divorce/nude-photo scandal will cut it. So here it is: O'Connor is coming out of the closet. "I am a lesbian," she declared in a June 8 letter to the British music mag Hot Press. "I love men, but I prefer sex with women and I prefer romantic relationships with women." In an upcoming issue of Curve, the largest-circulation...
...good as the music is, and all three previous records have found their way into year-end critics polls, it's the group's resolve to do things in its own flighty, boho way that has transformed it from a mere band into a cosmology. Growing out of an experiment in a music-business class at Glasgow's Stowe College in 1996, Belle and Sebastian was named after an obscure French children's cartoon. The band turned down major labels and big-money offers to sign with tiny London-based Jeepster (it's distributed in the U.S. by Matador...
...descrying the future TV of 2000, 20 years ago. You might have predicted a remarkable, crisp, high-tech TV display. You might have called it, say, "HDTV." And you would have been right. Except HDTV is probably not in your living room. As with the De Lorean car, the mere existence of a $5,000 or $10,000 TV set isn't sufficient to persuade consumers to go into hock to get a sharper look at Dennis Franz's butt. Instead, people have stuck with pretty much the same box they had in 1980, with less wood paneling but more...
...hate thought ("I hate Jews/ blacks/ gay people/ Catholics/ old people/ Walloons/ Bosnian Muslims/ Italians/ Latinos/ Other") flashed for an instant in the perpetrator's brain, like summer lightning, but no deed was done, then would the mere thought - tagging along as, so to speak, cheerleader in the vivid, if Orwellian, phrase "hate crime" - be worthy, in itself, of 10 to 15 years in jail? If not, then why, under hate crimes law, is this matter of the perpetrator's state of mind taken into consideration...
MOVING PICTURES Next time you're on a plane suffering through Beethoven's Third for the eighth time, think about signing up with a service called InMotion Pictures. InMotion rents portable DVD players (and DVDs) to airline passengers for a mere $10 a day so you can watch whatever you want while you fly. Already in seven airports nationwide, including Philadelphia and Seattle, it's coming soon to a cramped airplane seat near...