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EMI and Virgin Classics, one of the oldest and two of the most respected names in classical music, have undertaken a series of audiophile-friendly initiatives designed to strengthen their online presence. At the start of September, the labels together launched the EMI and Virgin Classics Listening Club. Open to music lovers who purchase new EMI or Virgin Classics discs marked with the Opendisc logo, the club's "exclusive" online environment offers participants the opportunity to build relationships with some of the labels' top artists.

Bagheera is a past mistress at the art of <I>cat fu</I>, the ability to comfortably inhabit spaces too small for her to fit into.

Huckleberry, on the other hand, practices his <I>cat fu</I> mind-tricks out in the open&mdash;where they aren't at all effective.

Making <I>Blonde on Blonde</I>.

Sometimes it is. "In theory, the planet has 24 time zones. Actually, there are about 39, and they are still hotly debated. Within the past month, President Hugo Chavez has talked of moving Venezuela’s clocks forward half an hour, and Indian scientists have urged their government to do the same."

<I>The Guardian</I> has published some of the greatest interviews of the 20<SUP>th</SUP> century on its site. Do <I>not</I> miss Frost/Nixon&mdash;and see the play, as well, if you get a chance. I saw it on Broadway with Frank Langella and Michael Sheen and it was one of those moments of theatrical greatness you'll remember in your dotage.

I haven’t watched all seven of Naxos’ <I>Jazz Icons</I> discs—a DVD box-set of televised European concerts by great jazz musicians in the 1960s—but one of them, <I>Charles Mingus: Live in ’64</I>, is a must-have: two hours of music, videotaped in Belgium, Norway, and Sweden in April 1964, featuring one of Mingus’ most electrifying sextets, including Eric Dolphy, Clifford Jordan, Johnny Coles, Dannie Richmond, and Jaki Byard.