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TV

If you're watching The Apprentice, you know that Chris being arrested for disorderly conduct couldn't be scripted more perfectly.

Big (and by big I mean bad) day in DVD TV releases today, with all of these first seasons coming out: Knight Rider, The A-Team, Magnum, P.I., and The Bob Newhart Show.

C|Net has a three-day future of tv series.

GAMES

New Xbox to debut on MTV next month.

ECON BOOKS

Kottke has an interview with Steven Levitt, the author of Freakonomics, which comes out today.

MEDIA

According to NYT, the Spy-ish Radar Magazine is making a comeback next month in the form of a website. Although the site has some interesting ideas (such as a 15-minutes-of-fame image uploader), I have a bigger question: will my subscription from two years ago finally be validated?

FILM

Out on DVD today: Almodóvar's Bad Education and Hotel Rwanda.

MUSIC

NYT: What's on President Bush's iPod? Everything from Alejandro Escovedo to Kenny Loggins.

And what's new in music releases today? The only noteworthy item this week is the new Garbage album.

BLOGS

I seem to be trading nicely on Blogshares.

LOCAL

Sarah Vowell is reading tonight.

Greil Marcus and Crooked Fingers and Ben Lee (all audio links) did in-studio's on The Current.