The News Review:

- Bolan lives on in Spirit rights deal.
- TRIB IN THE BLGSPHERE*
- Rufus Wainwright: The little drama boy
- Fairtrade hotels in South Africa | Travel | The Guardian

Bolan lives on in Spirit rights deal.
Free with registration – Music Week – AccessMyLibrary.com – Feb 23, 2008
Rex and Bolan revival as indie music publisher Spirit buys 300 songs audio and video rights and rare interview footage Marc Bolan is being readied to become a global 21st-century boy with indie music publisher Spirit Music Group snapping up nearly 300 songs by the T. Rex frontman alongside his audio and visual rights. New York-based Spirit – in partnership with finance house.

TRIB IN THE BLGSPHERE*
Albuquerque Tribune – Feb 23, 2008
‘s portable music players will find the new video-capable models of the iPod and its miniature counterpart the Nano clearly worth the wait. As with previous iPods the Nano now comes in a variety of storage capacities and colors not just silver and black. There’s green blue pink and red each holding 4 gigabytes of music or about 1000 songs. Silver is available in 2 GB and 4 GB configurations and the black model holds 8 GB… 4 ounces it’s even tinier than the first-generation models. Apple has done away with the device’s shiny metal backing often scratched on earlier models. Now an elegant seamless aluminum enclosure wraps around the Nano. The battery life of the Nano is impressive. Apple rates it at 24 hours and my own testing of an 8 GB model supported that. It charges quickly too powering up to 80 percent capacity in 90 minutes while hooked to your computer using a USB cable.

Rufus Wainwright: The little drama boy
Daily Mail – Feb 23, 2008
Now the decadence is over: he's ready to saveBritney hire Elton as his accountant – and win the Best Male BritAward The rain in Los Angeles is unseasonably heavy and the longdrive to meet one of the music industry's most colourfulfigures Rufus Wainwright is getting bleaker and bleaker bydegrees. Miles out of town we pull up in the car lot of a giantindustrial complex and are directed to a vast anonymousstainless-steel aircraft hanger. The metal door cranks open and reveals a scene straight out of aHollywood movie. Scroll down for more… "I'd change that to the most?"Described by Robbie Williams as "the talent I want to turninto" he comes from a royal family of folk musicians (hismother is Kate McGarrigle and his father is Loudon WainwrightIII). He has been befriended by artists from Elton John to DebbieHarry and Neil Tennant but his career almost ended because of hisaddiction to class-A drugs which led to rehab in 2002. He has recorded music for a slew of movies including MoulinRouge Brokeback Mountain and Shrek as well as appearing in theBBC sitcom Absolutely Fabulous. Last year he embarked on a series of concerts paying tribute toJudy Garland. "Judy appeared to me to give me her blessing forthe show" he says. "When I had just started doing rehearsals for Rufus DoesJudy I came out of the first big orchestra session in New York andI went home on my own. "As I was sitting relaxing I suddenly experienced thishorrific feeling of loneliness and exhaustion.

Fairtrade hotels in South Africa | Travel | The Guardian
Guardian Unlimited – Feb 23, 2008
Xolani the hotel’s resident fount of local knowledge took me to the Plettenberg townships instead – a personal alternative to some of the larger township tours more commercially available. We took no time in hitting a tavern – a focal point for what looked set to be a very long weekend. Unfathomable queues formed for games of pool cold beers flew from behind the metal grille covering the bar and music pumped. An early drink required lunch pronto so we headed to the outskirts of Plettenberg for Enrico’s. The pizzeria hovers above a spectacular beach misty with windblown sand and iced like a gateau with massive rollers – surfers can hire boards on arrival. Lunch at Enrico’s is as popular with the local trendies as it is with tourists and will set you back a bargain fiver. In the same neighbourhood is a drive that should be made compulsory.