- After I posted a few glowing thoughts about The Beatles: Rock Band, The New York Times reports today that the game has been outsold nearly three times over by Halo 3. I can only hope that this is because the game inspired more people to pick up actual guitars…
- Artist Warren Craghead checked in via e-mail this morning. Tonight, he and a few comic-making students will release a book called The Tell-Tale Mark at Ruffin Gallery. Check out a preview of the work here, or swing by Ruffin tonight around 8:30pm. Or, ahem, free book free book free book.
- Corey Harris’ latest album, blu.black, is out now via Telarc. According to his publicist, Harris will perform a record release show on November 4 at The Southern. When I spoke with Harris a year after his MacArthur "Genius" Grant, he said his next album would be an acoustic album; it’s not, but I just started listening. More soon.
- This Saturday marks the start of the Gordon Avenue Library’s second best time of the year to make friends and enemies alike while hunting for cheap copies of Janet Fitch’s White Oleander. (Seriously, it’s the kudzu of used books.) I speak, of course, of the annual Holiday Sale. I’ll say this, people—I’m not afraid to spill fresh blood on barely used books.
- More, you say? Check out this piece on coercion tactics in public radio fundraising, and Daniel Nester’s amazing piece for The Morning News on the 10th anniversary of The Rock Critical List. Kind of an anti-Jerry Maguire story.
