The 23-pound lobster was estimated to have been old enough to have survived two world wars and Prohibition, not to mention the supper table. He was pulled from the waters off Nantucket, Mass., and shipped to a Pittsburgh fish market. Based on how long it typically takes a lobster to reach eating size -- about five to seven years per pound -- Bubba may have been 100 years old.

"[I]nterested parties...to edit archival NASA footage of plane test crashes by setting the destruction to music - in essence creating art (a music video) from otherwise soulless, scientific film reels of burning crash test dummies and falling planes. The contest lasted only one day, and a person by the name of Ethan Mitchell won by making an edit that used the Interpol song 'Untitled.' Haunting is a word that I feel is often too carelessly used in describing a work of art, but the final product of this contest [.mov, QuickTime req.] is actually worthy of being described as 'haunting.'"

"Pair to Explore the Topics of Copyright, Downloading and File-Sharing in 'Who Owns Culture?'"

Jeff Tweedy, whose band Wilco recently earned two Grammy awards for their current Nonesuch Records release A ghost is born has openly embraced the culture of digital downloading and file-sharing by routinely offering free downloads of live music and new music on the Wilco Web site wilcoworld.net. "A piece of art is not a loaf of bread," explains Tweedy. "When someone steals a loaf of bread from the store, that's it. The loaf of bread is gone. When someone downloads a piece of music, it's just data until the listener puts that music back together with their own ears, their mind, their subjective experience."

Kevin Young talks about his new book, Black Maria. The poems in the collection tell the story of a private detective and femme fatale. The action takes place on the wet, neon-lit streets of a place called Shadowtown, a "gritty cross between Hollywood and Chicago...."