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What is a billboard? If you said something along the lines of large commercial signs for which businesses or groups pay to place advertisements, you would be wrong, at least…
At Yahoo!Sport, Ben Rohrbach reports on the current status of, “The most outrageous streak in American sports.”: After former San Jose Mercury News reporter Mike Rosenberg professed on Twitter … that September marked…
Was rummaging around Wikipedia when I came across something that sums up exactly how nichified and disposable our popular culture has become. In 1971, B.B. King put out his landmark…
Because it’s Tuesday and the latest class for the hall was announced last week. First, the Winston-Salem Journal has a nice write-up on the “5” Royales, which will enter the…
At best, in music sales it seems. It use to be that a band had a hit album if it went platinum — shipped 1,000,000 copies. As Billboard points out,…
CNN is claiming Congressman Mark Meadows deserves all the credit for stalling Obamacare. I thank the Mountain Xpress for linking to this article.
The Watauga County Commissioners have decided large billboards are not so evil after all. Individuals and organizations are once again liberated to use them to express themselves. That is not…
Just came across this fascinating look at the music business in Charlotte (yes, Charlotte) and various other cities in Billboard. There’s more to the article, as Billboard apparently only gives…
Why is there no great stir about the billboard that reads, “Asheville progressives are coming to get you . . .”? In the background is a menacing blaze, so it…
Moog Music, Inc. has decorated its downtown Asheville building with a second mural. The first, of which I am not so keen, displays a cartoon of a synthesizer (maybe a…
The Swain County Commissioners decided to remove controversial language from a billboard. They did not think it was tasteful for the county to be pushing birth control for youth. The…
If you want a discount abortion, Swain County taxpayers are helping you learn where to get it by buying billboard space. Evidently, insufficient numbers of people are dependent on government,…