When the music’s over: Voodoo Fest founder Stephen Rehage isn’t commenting on a Billboard magazine report that he has sold the festival he launched in New Orleans City Park in 1999, according to The Times-Picayune. The festival, formally known as the Voodoo Music + Arts Experience, was reportedly purchased by media mogul Robert F. X. Sillerman’s SFX Entertainment.
Standing up for science: Zack Kopplin, a Rice University student who graduated from Baton Rouge Magnet High, has won the “Troublemaker Award” for his fight to repeal the Louisiana Science Education Act, according to a press release. The award, which comes with a $10,000 cash prize, was founded by a Russian-born American angel investor and entrepreneur.
Drastic measures: Having failed to carve out a place for itself in the post-PC era, Hewlett-Packard is throwing a “Hail Mary pass” by adopting Google’s Android operating system to run a series of upcoming mobile devices, readwrite reports. HP’s first Android device will be a high-end tablet that is powered by NVIDIA’s Tegra 4 chip, and it could be announced soon, according to two sources familiar with the matter.
Today’s poll: Do you think former Baltimore Ravens offensive coordinator Cam Cameron is a good choice for the same position at LSU?
Editor’s note: John Maginnis is on vacation today. LaPolitics will return next week.
