| Herren Talks Prefuse, Savath, New LPs, Collaboration
"I play it for people and say, 'What is this shit? How do you interpret it?' And they're like, 'This sounds like some sad-ass soundtrack.' If there's one thing we can count on from Prefuse 73's Scott Herren, (now going by his full name: Guillermo Scott Herren), it's that he always has a ton of collaborations and side projects going almost simultaneously. So far this year, those projects are limited to three: a new Prefuse 73 album, a new Savath & Savalas album, Golden Pollen, scheduled for a June 19 release on Anti-, and a full-length collaboration with Japanese MC Twigy, tentatively due out in May. We caught up with Herren recently to talk about these three projects as well as his relationships with hip hop, his collaborators (including Battles' Tyondai Braxton), and the language barrier.
Funny man kicks off festival
Comedian Dave Coulier and musicians Eddie Money and Foreigner lead the entertainment lineup for the 86th annual Festival of States. Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, a St. Petersburg native, will be the grand marshal for the illuminated night parade, which begins at 8 p.m. April 13 and will feature 10 marching bands. Because of a convergence of public events - the Honda Grand Prix, which ends today, and the last day of Tampa Bay Devil Rays spring training on Saturday - the annual daytime parade took a year off. Otherwise, the number of police required to work all of the venues would have strained city resources, officials have said. Coulier, who is known for his impersonations, performs at 7:30 Friday in the Palladium Theater, 253 Fifth Ave. N. Gates open at 4 p.m.
Billy Payne Interview
Editor's Note: On the eve of the 2007 Masters Tournament, new Augusta National chairman Billy Payne sat down with the media and discussed his role with the year's first major and one of America's most exclusive golf clubs. In this interview, Payne exhibits Southern charm and a fine sense of humor. CHAIRMAN PAYNE: Good afternoon, and welcome once again to the 2007 Masters Tournament. First, I want to say congratulations to the honorees of the inaugural Masters Major Achievement Award which we presented an hour or so ago, and to say once again, their contributions to the Masters have truly been instrumental to our success, and it was our sincere honor and privilege to salute them. After many years here on the stage, I am obviously not accustomed to sitting here in this middle seat, but I promise, today and always, to do my very best to meet the example of integrity, honor, and respect set by my predecessors.
Carlisle neighbors act globally
As a 14-year-old boy, Michael Ansara participated in a boycott of a Wonder Bread factory in Roxbury, helping persuade the company to begin hiring black workers. Later, Ansara protested against the war in Vietnam and was active in the antiapartheid movement, calling for the divestment of American banks from South Africa. Now 60 and the president of a customer service company, Ansara has three children and lives in Carlisle. And he's still an activist. In the spring of 2005, Ansara networked with parents on his son's soccer team and acquaintances on town committees and formed a group of 20 Carlisle couples who wanted to lend money to black people in South Africa. First there was a potluck dinner in the Ansara home. And last October, the group made its first contribution -- a total of $29,000 in loan guarantees to help South Africans start their own businesses.
John Lanchester: Who owns what in the digital age?
Many of us take it for granted that we can download films or music without paying. Now, new projects such as Google Book Search will make millions of books available too. What will this mean for authors and the publishing industry? John Lanchester asks who owns what in the digital age
Saturday April 7, 2007
The Guardian
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Viacom Sues YouTube, Google for $1 Billion
In a landmark faceoff between programming owners and Web sites purporting to comprise user generated content and social networking capabilities, media giant Viacom Inc. said Tuesday it is suing YouTube and Google for more than $1 billion because of unauthorized use of its assets. Specifically, Viacom filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York for massive intentional copyright infringement of its entertainment properties. The suit seeks the damages as well as an injunction prohibiting Google and YouTube from further copyright infringement. The Viacom complaint contends that almost 160,000 unauthorized clips of its programming have been available on YouTube and that these clips had been viewed more than 1.5 billion times.
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