Live from ComiCon San Diego

A look at CominCon San Diego, a multi-day event for fans of comic books, movie memorabilia, action figures, and all things that celebrate the historic and ongoing contribution of comics to art and culture.

Fireworks — Backyard in Upstate New York

This family’s backyard offers a view of two shows in town.

Liberty Park in Salt Lake City

A day of family fun in Salt Lake City, Utah…and we got us a corn roaster too!

Killer Whales at SeaWorld

A fun way to spend the Fourth with the family.

Kerry’s Kat

From Australia: I think Kerry’s black cat is actually trying to tell her that the litter box needs changing . . .

Bonnaroo: Willie Nelson

You can hardly see him, but the voice of the Red-Headed Stranger is unmistakable . . .

Barcelona: Daydream Music Festival

Did she say Radiohead? Let’s see who else is playing?

Spore “Tribal Phase” Preview

A sneak preview of Electronic Arts’ Spore: Tribal Phase, due for introduction in early September

Sunset over Maui

Watch and weep, cubicle slaves. . .

Watching the Giants blow out the Mets

Scoble’s at AT&T/PacBell/Whatever Park watching (from a luxury box, no less) the Giants blow out the Mets. Final score 10-2. Not bad for a team without any power in its line-up . . .

Hasid Hip-Hop

Hasidic hip-hop dancing front of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City during the Israel Day Parade.

Rage Against the Machine in Concert

Even with the weak audio you can still hear Tom Morello’s guitar wizardry. . .

Tekzilla Prep

Veronica shoots the chaos — and discusses earwax — before a “Tekzilla” segment shoot.

Nashua Pride baseball

Autograph table for the Nashua Pride, minor league team of the Can-Am League. The team is famous for its Negro Leagues history — it gave a start to Jackie Robinson, Roy Campanella and Don Newcombe. Video courtesy of Nashua Telegraph

Frontier Street, Las Vegas

“Ooh, Las Vegas, ain’t no place for a poor boy like me
Every time I hit your crystal city
You know you’re gonna make a wreck out of me . . .”
— Gram Parsons

Polynesian Dancing

No caption from Qikker23641, but it appears to be on Maui.

The Woody Show: Live 105

Inside the San Francisco studios of the morning program, The Woody Show.

The Shocker

Live from some New Jersey No-Tell Motel. Do you get the feeling that these guys have been drinking?

La filipina

Robin Good: vocals and percussion. Does this guy always seem to be having a good time, or what?

Behind the Scenes at Live 105 San Francisco

Justin takes us behind the scenes of The Woody Show, a popular morning drive time radio show in San Francisco.

Calacanis in Sydney

Our friend Jason Calacanis is down under, and manages to describe one of the world’s architectural wonders — the Sydney Opera House — as something out of the Planet of the Apes . . .

Radiohead Live in Dallas

One of six videos.  Here, yahoos shout while Thom Yorke sings the saddest song in the Radiohead oeuvre, “Fake Plastic Trees”.

Cannes: Indiana Jones press conference

Variety attends the Indian Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull press conference at the Cannes Film Festival.  On the rostrum are Steven Spielberg, Harrison Ford, Shia LeBoeuf, George Lucas, Karen Allen and Cate Blanchett.

Bay to Breakers II

aka “More naked dudes.”

The run/parade looks bigger than ever this year.  Must be the heat wave. . .

Variety: Woody Allen at Cannes

From Variety magazine, another great close-up look at life at the Cannes Film Festival.  The audio is a little muffled, but hey, it’s Woody Allen.  He’s at the festival to promote his new movie, Vicky Christina Barcelona.

Runway Too Concert at mync

Okay, we’ve got the bad Michael Jackson cover band, the bikini model who takes off her top . . .but what are those things flying over the runway?  oh, BMX riders . . .check. 

Morgan Spurlock at Cannes 2008

Morgan Spurlock (Super Size Me, Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden) is interviewed by Variety at the Cannes Film Festival about his new film “The Third Wave”, a documentary he produced about volunteers helping tsunami victims.

Karen Allen at Cannes Film Festival

Variety interviews Karen Allen at the Indiana Jones 4 cocktail party at the Cannes Film Festival.  She may be complaining about being tired, but you gotta figure she loves being back in the limelight.

Steven Spielberg

Variety films Steven Spielberg at the cocktail reception for “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” at the Cannes Film Festival. No flop sweat visible.

Bishop Allen in Concert

The Brooklyn indie band Bishop Allen performs in Williamsburg.

Finnish Clubbing

Late Friday night.  Out clubbin’ and drinkin’ in Tampere, Finland . . .

Interview with Michael Moore

Anne Thompson of Variety Magazine talks with Michael Moore at the Cannes Film Festival about his yet untitled new film, a sequel to “Fahrenheit 9/11.”

Jonathon Coulton

Geek folk/rock singer Jonathon Coulton in concert in Phoenix, Arizona

Memphis music

Lacey Winters, who hosts a webcast with the Memphis Commercial Appeal, attends a festival (barbecue?) and a concert under gloomy skies.  Check out the other CommercialAppeal postings today for more.