A new book says 007's cultural relevance as the savior of the British Empire and the world is over. But one lifelong fan will never say never again...

Blues legend BB King is to be awarded America's highest civilian honour by President George W Bush...

March 20, 2007, 10:50 AM ET The Rolling Stones will return to live duty with a June 10 headlining appearance at the Isle of Wight Festival, according to U.K. reports. The Stones have not played a U.K. festival since the Knebworth Fair in 1976...

In the news Bob Dylan, Bjork, Wilco, the White Stripes, the Killers, My Morning Jacket, Muse, Queens Of The Stone Age and the Arcade Fire lead the lineup for the sixth Austin City Limits Music Festival, to be held Sept...

Ramblings on politics, film, music, literature, current events, pop culture, lists, dirty words, trapezoids, birds, cartoons and any other damned thing that strikes my synapses...

This weekend. I will catch up with emails this weekend. I promise. Class today - it was Friday, wasn t it? - and the course was Operations Analysis/Research, OR. Which as I might have mentioned is a kind of cult at the Naval Postgraduate School...

Fast, slow, somber, fun - the Bay Concert Band has music to fit all moods during its annual Christmas concert. ''It has very difficult music,'' said 'Christmas Variants.' It turned out to be a very Variants'' is Jeannine Coughlin, a former student School...