The Ten Best Classical Music Recordings of 2008

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Alex Ross, the New Yorker music critic who recently won a MacArthur Genius grant and published The Rest is Noise, a widely praised work that makes sense of 20th century classical music, lists his favorite classical music recordings of 2008.

Steven Spielberg Admits Swallowing a Transistor to Andy Warhol and Bianca Jagger

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In 1979, Andy Warhol spent $40,000 on a broadcast-quality camera and started dabbling in creating television programs that he aired on Manhattan public access cable channels. (Get more on the story here.) One episode featured Warhol, Bianca Jagger and Steven Spielberg simply hanging out on a bed. And here’s how their conversation went down: via BoingBoing

Top 10 Blog Posts of 2008

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Here they go, the most popular posts of 2008: 10. Free Stanford Computer Science & Engineering Courses Now Online 9.) The Old Man and the Sea Animated 8.) Teaching on YouTube 7.) Turn Your iPod into a Travel Guide: 20 Travel Podcasts 7.) Listening to Famous Poets Reading Their Own Work 6. This American Life Demystifies the Housing/Credit Crisis 5.) Understanding [...]

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