Nearly 90 people were arrested at Phish [ tickets ]'s concert at Blossom Music Center in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, the Akron Beacon Journal reported. The charges included the usual drug-related ones, as well as an assault on a police officer.

Some of the police officers reportedly tried to dress up as Phish fans. The officers realized that they had failed when they heard "the slang term used by Phish fans to identify police." The article curiously didn't say what that term was. ("Narc," we assume, is printable.) Anyone who knows what the term is, please email us at james@livedaily.com.

The Pullman Group, known for creating bonds for such musicians as David Bowie and James Brown, has entered into a similar arrangement with the estate of Marvin Gaye [ tickets ]. Traditionally, such a bond is issued to raise capital, and is backed by the musician's future royalties--Bowie, for instance, reportedly claimed that he was going to use the money to gain full rights to his back catalog.

The Associated Press reported that the House of Representatives passed a bill that would once again allow musicians to gain rights to their work from record companies after a 35-year period. An amendment to a recently passed appropriations bill said allowed record companies to treat musicians' work as "work for hire."

The Pittsburgh City Council has named Oct. 1 "Boy George Tribute Day." According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Councilman Jim Ferlo proposed the measure "to celebrate the anti-drug message of Boy George, a former heroin addict, and to please Boy George's fans." Ferlo reportedly also sang the opening bars to the Culture Club [ tickets ] song "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?"

Future legislators take note: You can get any measure passed as long as you make your colleagues really, really uncomfortable.

And history bears this out. For example, the Smoot-Hawley tariff was passed only after Senators Smoot and Hawley stood in the middle of the Senate floor and gently played with each other's hair.

From staff reports, compiled by James Woster.