Archive: 2003

After 30 years in the entertainment business, Ira Opper is finally seeing his life

Two young college grads, Mike and Nathan, decided to put off starting careers and take a cross-country road trip to discover if there truly was “more to life.” Only instead of driving around waiting for the great epiphany, they decided to seek out people from all walks of life and ask them how they got to where they were today.

Director of NPR

With a recent record release and a new band

Writing songs that explore the back roads of American music, and launching these traditions in adventurous new directions, Jay Farrar continues to reinvent his own sound with his latest release – Terroir Blues. With the launch of his own record label, Act/Resist Records, and the reissue of Uncle Tupelo

Buena Vista Games is bringing back the sci-fi cult classic “TRON” August 26 as an interactive adventure for Windows-based computers. “TRON 2.0” is an immersive first-person action game that includes elements of racing and role-playing game genres.
The game’s story takes place roughly 20 years after the events from the film, where the talented young programmer Jet Bradley is zapped into a computer mainframe to search for his missing father, Alan, creator of the TRON program. In this high-tech world, Jet finds an evil entity determined to infect Earth’s computer systems by using his father’s technology.
At various points in the story, or as stand-alone multiplayer or solo game modes, players can climb into the sleek light cycles introduced in the “TRON” and race in the Game Grid. As in the film, players must force opposing light cyclists to crash into walls or their light cycle’s ever-increasing snake like tail. Syd Mead, renowned conceptual artist who worked on the original “TRON” films, designed the updated light cycles in the game.
Multiplayer options include challenging up to 16 players across the Internet in disc combat or light cycle races. For a free taste, you can download a 160-megabyte demonstration of the game at www.tron20.net.
Source cnn.com.

Extreme skydiver Felix Baumgartner became the first person to glide unassisted across the English Channel on Thursday, plummeting 30,000 feet while traveling the 21 ground miles between Dover, England, and Calais, France.
The 34-year-old Austrian was armed with just a six-foot carbon-fiber wing, a parachute, and oxygen when he floated into a crowd of reporters, cameramen, about ten minutes after jumping out of an airplane.
Source Outsideonline.com.

As the former vocalist for the 1990s Burlington, Vermont band The Pants, Tom Lawson is no stranger to pushing his creative endeavors on stage front and center. After viewing his “Autommatics, Semi-Automatics, Re-Dos and Hard Labor,” painting exhibit at the Firehouse Gallery in Burlington, Vermont, you get an immediate sense that Lawson thrives on creativity, as his new stage transforms to an array of plywood, canvas, and paints into an improvised array of energy.

This month I brewed my annual holiday batch for my, well, holiday enjoyment. Although this was my sixth holiday batch, it

There are all sorts of ways to get the adrenaline pumping – rafting, climbing, downhill single track, but there