75th Anniversary of Gone with the Wind

Today marks the 75th Anniversary of the novel by Margaret Mitchell. Gone With the Wind was published in June 1936. Mitchell was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her sweeping novel the following May. It was made into an equally famous motion picture starring Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable. The movie had its world premiere at […]

Continue reading

DC is now down to one Blockbuster

[This Blockbuster is located at 410 8th Street, SE Washington, DC ] Now that spotting an open Blockbuster location is a novelty that merits a double take, and scores of other video rental chains have vanished, movie fans who want to rent some DVDs for the road have had to change the way they operate. […]

Continue reading

Copyright Settlement of the Day

Back in 2009, Waxy.org’s Andy Baio produced Kind of Bloop, a chiptune tribute to Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue. It was one of the biggest early success stories for crowdfunding platform Kickstarter. Today, Baio announced he had paid $32,000 in a copyright settlement — not over the music, which he licensed from the publisher, but […]

Continue reading

Eva Gabrielsson on the Diane Rehm Show

Eva Gabrielsson: “’There Are Things I Want You to Know’ About Stieg Larsson and Me” Seven years ago, Swedish journalist and author Stieg Larsson suffered a heart attack. He died without ever knowing the success of his Millennium trilogy. The books – “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, “The Girl Who Played With Fire” and […]

Continue reading