Dan Hicks

NBC Drops 'Under God' From Pledge, Apologizes

Posted 08.19.2011

Read More: NBC Apologizes, Under God, Dan Hicks, Pledge of Allegiance, U.S. Open, Golf, NBC Coverage, U.S. Open 2011, Under God Controversy, Nbc, Video, Media News

NBC apologized after the network twice omitted the words "under God" from a clip of students reciting the Pledge of Allegiance as part of its coverage...

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TED, Solar Power, Windpower, and All Things Amerikana: A Conversation with Thomas Dolby

Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pacifica, Van Morrison, Al Gore, Natalie MacMaster, Houdini, Paul Simon, An Inconvenient Truth, Grace Jones, Trever Horn, Dolby's Cube, Bruce Wooley & the Camera Club, Gordon Brown, Stevie Wonder, Lene Lovich, Ted, Technology Education & Design, Mtv, Tracy Chapman, Frank Zappa, Bill Clinton, Dan Hicks, Guy Ritchie, Mike Shipley, Nokia, The Buggles, Theremin, George Clinton, Mark Knopfler, Grammy Awards, Roger Dean, Prefab Sprout, Regina Spektor, They Might Be Giants, Herbie Hancock, Danny Kleinman, Larry Klein, Dire Straits, Howard Jones, Natalie Merchant, Quentin Tarantino, Joni Mitchell, Def Leppard, Blade Runner, James Bond, Thomas Dolby, Silicon Valley, Foreignor, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

"Among other things I do," says the British musician, "I'm the music director of an organization called TED or Technology, Education and Design. That's an annual get together of people sort of figuring out how to save the planet."

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Thank God It's Thursday: Book Expo '09 & The 27s plus The Singular Thomas Dolby

Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nikola Tesla, Italian, Brian Jones, Catholicism, Josh Hunter, New Wave, Eric Segalstad, Dolby's Cube, Who, The Magic Show, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Stevie Wonder, Lene Lovich, Dynasty, Margaret Thatcher, Burt Bacharach, Albert Einstein, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Dan Hicks, Peter Ham, The Kushans, Albert Schatz, Jesus, Wicked, Stephen Schwartz, Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, Mario Puzo, Depeche Mode, Poughkeepsie, Rose Bowl, Prefab Sprout, Thompson Twins, Roger Waters, Foreigner, Entertainment News, Carol De Gierer, Doug Henning, Pink Floyd, Enchanted, Joni Mitchell, Chris Bell, India, Unplugged, Promises in the Dark, Thomas Dolby, Poughkeepsie Journal, Live Aid, Jim Morrison, The Wall, Ronald Reagan, Mephisto on Wing, Latin, Broadway, Neil Young, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Issa, The 27 Club, Janis Joplin, Grand Theft Auto, Yellow Magic Orchestra, Antoinette Pannard, David Bowie, Mtv, MTV Unplugged, Amazon, Kathleen Beller, Bill Clinton, Angels & Demons, Pocahontas, Albert Schweitzer, Kurt Cobain, George Clinton, Bookexpo, Robert Johnson, Grammy Awards, Best Buy, Lois Drake, Pop Music, The Godfather, Jazz, Indiana Jones, Howard Jones, The Betsy, New Age, Def Leppard, Jimi Hendrix, Robyn Hitchcock, Dan Brown, Pippin, Godspell, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

This year's BookExpo in New York City had its usual small arena of publishers at gussied-up kiosks hawking the latest and greatest by writers known and unknown.

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