Posts Tagged ‘house’

Paris Hilton Says “I Feel Like a Grown Up Now”

Sunday, July 27th, 2008

Paris Hilton may have been surrounded by adults dressed as superheroes and Star Wars characters at San Deigo’s Comic-Con International, but the heiress-turned-actress says “I just feel like a grown-up now,” thanks to her current romance with musician Benji Madden and their more low-key lifestyle.

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8 Songs Inspired By Real Women

Monday, April 14th, 2008

Songwriters have found inspiration in all sorts of places, from transvestites to team tennis titans. Maggie Koerth-Baker has read between the liner notes to find out for whom 8 famous songs were written.

Written for: Afeni Shakur, who is, obviously, Tupacs mama. A fascinating character in her own right, Afeni Shakur was born Alice Fay Williams, but changed her name while working with the Black Panthers in the 1960s. In fact, Tupac (named…

More Publishers Phase Out DRM on Audio Books

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

The trend will allow consumers who download audio books to freely transfer these digital files between devices like their computers, iPods and cellphones ? and conceivably share them with others. Dropping copying restrictions could also allow a variety of online retailers to start to sell audio book downloads.

Publishers, like the music labels and movie studios, stuck to D.R.M. out of fear that pirated copies would diminish revenue. Random House tested the justification for this fear when it introduced the D.R.M.-less concept with eMusic last fall….