The Limbaugh media empire has spread to the Web - Marta Limbaugh, wife of Rush, has launched the Web component of her upcoming print magazine for 18 to 29 year olds called Vent. The magazine itself will be distributed by Hearst this spring.
The Web site will primarily be a community tool as well as a farming ground for reader-submitted magazine material. Besides hard-hitting features like "Mutant Celebrity Offspring Island," the Web site encourages those young slackers to rant about the news, music, and other "profound issues."
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Video artist wins big Brit prize: One of Britain's most-watched art awards, the Turner Prize, has been given to Gillian Wearing, a 34-year old video artist whose works were praised for emotional force and "complexity beneath an apparently simple surface."
The most recent winners of the controversial £20,000 (US$33,700) prize have included Douglas Gordon and Damien Hirst. (3.Dec.97)
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No cooking music please: PBS has decided to get in on the music business, and will soon create its own record label. The public broadcaster hopes to lure audiences with the strength of its name and reputation. Major record labels, which often distribute smaller labels to remain fresh and agile, are aggressively competing for the rights to distribute the new label, reports Variety. (3.Dec.97)
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Antonioni back in action: Famed Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni is set to begin shooting his first American film since 1970's trouble-plagued Zabriskie Point. Canadian wunderkind Atom Egoyan has been signed as backup director for the film, Just to Be Together. A backup is necessary, Variety says, due to the 85-year old director's poor health. (3.Dec.97)
