The Anchorage Press
Yeah Yeah Yeah
July 10 - 16, 2003 (Vol. 12, Ed. 28)
By: John M. James
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Blues Clues rocks the Shack

Almost as iconic as Mr. Rogers' trademark cardigan is the green striped rugby shirt worn by Steve on Nickelodeon TV's "Blue's Clues." After six years as the show's original host, and now replaced by another soft-spoken actor, it felt unsettling to deflect "Steve is dead" rumors from my seven-year-old and find Steve Burns the post-blue dog serious actor portraying a creepy killer on "Law and Order." Burns' resume is getting a little thicker next month when Pias America Records releases his debut CD, Songs For Dust Mites. Self-described as an album about science and love, this is no children's record despite the album's playful collaboration with Steven Drozd of the Flaming Lips and producer David Fridmann, knob-twiddling master of records by the Flaming Lips, Mercury Rev, Sparklehorse and Weezer. In other Flaming Lips new of note, Burns has reveled that - shhh - he's in the Flaming Lips' long anticipated Christmas On Mars motion picture.