A Dead Man, Buried Treasure, and the Ghost That Haunts Robert Lang Studio From the outside, the house doesn't look haunted. Robert Lang's whitewashed, concrete and brick villa seems more suited for the Spanish coast than the Seattle suburb of Richmond Beach....

A Review of I, Robot Ghosts in the Machine Going to the movies nowadays is like watching TV in a great big living room full of garrulous family members, except you can't channel-surf during the commercials. The crowd gathered with me to...

Ghost in the Machine feels unsettlingly crowded. Which is as it should be, since that's what the album is about: overload, media explosion, the global village, the behavioral sink. The Police's platform, a spinoff from Marshall McLuhan, Alvin Toffler, et al., is hardly news …, yet it's strongly stated, consistent and compelling. The thrashing, denatured funk of "Too Much Information," the whirlpool riff that punctuates "Omegaman" and the oppressive, hy...

The Police is a group, like Steely Dan, whose music makes you change speeds when one of their songs comes on your car radio. Clean, direct choruses that keep your ears blinking to attention, emotional hooks every 30 seconds, and lushly produced melodies make both groups irresistible. With the release of Ghost In The Machine, their fourth album, the Police prove they're able to merge diverse pop idioms into complex music that will carry a mass audience where the group wants to take them…. Sting...