Science Times celebrates the 50th anniversary of Sputnik, which changed everything - history, geopolitics, the scientific world. The US dollar hit to new record low against the euro as investors fretted about a world credit crunch. The Democratic chairman of a House committee complained Tuesday that the State Department was blocking his panel’s efforts to investigate the private security firm Blackwater USA and its operations in Iraq. How To Lose All Your Friends Immediately,......

Since unleashing the Peter Gabriel-like "Staring At The Sun" in 2003, TV On The Radio has done just about everything an indie band can hope for. They've released two lauded albums, made the major label jump, opened for the Pixies, recorded with David Bowie, and won the Shortlist Prize. And while The Arcade Fire may be the most blogged about band of the last two years, one could argue that TVOTR may be the......

Big Brother really will be watching soon enough. In one of the more disgusting turn of Pentagon-related paranoia events, the Department of Defense (under the auspice of the US command in Baghdad) announced yesterday that it will be putting out a contract on the media. Well, to be more precise, it will be spending $20 million to hire a public relations firm to monitor the media's coverage on the quagmire in Iraq. The AP reports......

A true benchmark of our time is the shortened distance that exists between real events in our world and their rebirth as silver screen dramas. An example of this is writer/director Peter Greengrass’ (The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum) United 93, an accounting based on documented facts of what transpired aboard the fated aircraft on September 11, 2001. Playing out in real time, cross cutting between stories, we get a glimpse of the shock and......

It is not too-terribly-often that we get a really big name in comedy here in Austin. Maybe half-a-dozen shows a year. This is one of them. Paul F. Tompkins, of Mr. Show fame, is at our favorite comedy venue in town, the Cap City Comedy Club, through Saturday night. And his dry and acerbic wit will leave you howling. Don't let the feaux-smug and buttoned-down demeanor fool you, this guy is wild and not......

For those of you who have missed our RW recaps, you can rest easy, they are back, well...kind of. As our expert on all-things-RW recuperates from a month-long battle with his Tivo, another of us has decided to take a swing for him, which is kinda like having to pinch hit for Barry Bonds. And for those of us who do not have a television-recording device and must rely on transcribing the events in......