Eric Parke

A Marin County man filed a class-action lawsuit against the Recording Industry Assn. of America, claiming the group's new amnesty program for file sharers misleads the public. Eric Parke, a mortgage lending executive, asked a Superior Court judge in San Rafael, Calif., to order RIAA to shut down the Clean Slate amnesty program and inform the public that its offer was "false and misleading."

First of all, Black Hogg, the name of the new Silver Lake gastropub, doesn't refer to a heritage pig or even a plain old hog or wild boar. According to the staff, it takes its name from the alternative definition of hogg, which the Oxford English Dictionary says refers to a young sheep, especially "one from the time it ceases to be a lamb until its first shearing"). And there that hogg is, ambiguous in neon outline at the very top of the restaurant's understated sign. A subliminal suggestion to order the buttery lamb burger?

First of all, Black Hogg, the name of the new Silver Lake gastropub, doesn't refer to a heritage pig or even a plain old hog or wild boar. According to the staff, it takes its name from the alternative definition of hogg, which the Oxford English Dictionary says refers to a young sheep, especially "one from the time it ceases to be a lamb until its first shearing"). And there that hogg is, ambiguous in neon outline at the very top of the restaurant's understated sign. A subliminal suggestion to order the buttery lamb burger?

A Marin County man filed a class-action lawsuit against the Recording Industry Assn. of America, claiming the group's new amnesty program for file sharers misleads the public. Eric Parke, a mortgage lending executive, asked a Superior Court judge in San Rafael, Calif., to order RIAA to shut down the Clean Slate amnesty program and inform the public that its offer was "false and misleading."