Tom Cole archive

September 21, 2009 The Federal Communications Commission should adopt standards that mandate an Internet that is accessible to everyone on the same terms with no legal content blocked, its chairman said. In a speech at the Brookings Institution, Julius Genachowski strongly backed principles of "network neutrality."

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September 1, 2009 Swedish singer Victoria Bergsman, who records as Taken by Trees, went to Pakistan to make her second album, East of Eden. The result does not sound like another ersatz "world-music" collaboration. Instead, she and producer/guitarist/engineer Andreas Soderstrom take melodies and rhythms recorded there and build on them to create their own songs. Hear the album in its entirety, a week before its Sept. 8 release.

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August 13, 2009 The guitarist and inventor who helped bring about the rise of rock 'n' roll and multitrack recording died of complications from pneumonia Thursday at a hospital in White Plains, N.Y. He was 94.

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May 3, 2009 He sang for workers in the '40s, civil rights in the '50s and '60s, and against all the wars since Vietnam. When he performs tonight, with an all-star lineup at Madison Square Garden, the audience will surely sing along.

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April 30, 2009 At the record store, Tom Cole spent most of his time warding off scornful looks as he toted Mothers of Invention LPs around. One day, he decided he needed to learn about jazz. A clerk at Discount Records and Books in Washington, D.C., suggested these five records. No standards; just his absolute favorites.

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March 25, 2009 Archie Green was a blue-collar worker and labor-union activist who became a teacher and helped start the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. The man who established "laborlore" as a field of study died Sunday at the age of 91.

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February 17, 2009 Despite a law delaying the switch to digital television until June, hundreds of TV stations are planning to turn off their analog signals by Tuesday, potentially leaving millions of unprepared viewers in the dark.

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February 14, 2009 In 1959, Robert Frank's The Americans dramatically altered how photographers looked through viewfinders and how Americans saw themselves.

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January 30, 2009 Singer, guitarist and composer John Martyn was a folkie with a jazz soul. The accomplished and innovative guitarist got his start as a teenager in Britain's thriving folk scene and continued to evolve his sound throughout his career. Martyn died Thursday at a hospital in Ireland.

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January 15, 2009 Emmy-award-winning actor Patrick McGoohan died Tuesday in Los Angeles at age 80. McGoohan was best known at the creator and star of the 1967 British series The Prisoner, in which he played "Number Six," a former spy trapped in a mysterious and sinister village.

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October 29, 2008 Consumers Union, the nonprofit publisher of Consumer Reports says Comcast and other cable operators appear to be trying to profit from the upcoming transition from analog broadcast TV to digital, and that Comcast is forcing consumers to upgrade or accept fewer channels for the same price.

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