Mary J. Blige has announced the dates of an all-encompassing tour of North America this autumn.
She'lll hit the road with Robin Thicke on the Love-Soul enlistment, which kicks off on September 19 in Virginia Beach and stops in cities including Washington DC, Fort Lauderdale, Atlanta and Los Angeles.
The excursion concludes in Oahu on October 22 and includes two nights at New York's Radio City Music Hall on October 2 and 3.
The multi-Grammy-winning isaac Merrit Singer is encouraging her virtually recent album 'Growing Pains'.
The tour dates are:
Virginia Beach, VA Virginia Beach Pavilion (September 19)
Washington, DC DC/Nissan Pavilion (20)
Raleigh, NC Time Warner Music Cable Pavilion (21)
Camden, NJ Susquehanna Bank Center (26)
Charlotte, NC Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre (27)
Detroit, MI DTE Energy Music Theatre (28)
New York City Radio City Music Hall (October 2, 3)
Baltimore, MD 1st Mariner Arena (8)
Ft. Lauderdale, FL Bank Atlantic Center (10)
Tampa, FL Ford Amphitheater (11)
Atlanta, GA Hi-Fi Amphitheatre (12)
Chicago, IL Arie Crown Theater (14)
Omaha, NE Qwest Convention Center (15)
Las Vegas, NV Pearl Theatre (17)
Oakland, CA Sleep Train Pavilion at Concord (18)
Los Angeles, CA Gibson Amphitheatre (19)
Oahu, HI Blaisdall Arena (22)
--By our Los Angeles staff.
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Sunday 31 August 2008
DMX Pleads For Early Release From Jail
Rapper DMX could be released from jail in just over two weeks after reportedly working out a plea deal on charges of drug possession.
DMX - real identify Earl Simmons - is currently behind bars following his check for lacking a royal court date earlier this month (Aug08), stemming from do drugs charges in Arizona.
The rapper was denied his request for bail on Monday (26Aug08) when he appeared at Miami-Dade Circuit Court in Florida.
But according to celebrity website TMZ.com, the Party Up star has worked out a plea deal which would grant him to leave prison in 15 days time.
Under the terms of the so-called agreement, Simmons will be sentenced to time served and a $483 (GBP261) fine.
Simmons is due back in court on 2 October (08).
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Thursday 21 August 2008
Download Ulrich Schnauss mp3
 Artist: Ulrich Schnauss: mp3 download Genre(s): Electronic Dance Other Ambient Discography:  Quicksand Memory Ep Year: 2007 Tracks: 4  Goodbye Year: 2007 Tracks: 10  Remixcollection Year: 2004 Tracks: 18  A Strangely Isolated Place Year: 2004 Tracks: 8  Far Away Trains Passing By Year: 2001 Tracks: 6 A more than or less secret producer from Berlin, Germany, Ulrich Schnauss debuted under his have learn in 2001 with Far Away Trains Passing By. Released by City Centre Offices, the album seemingly came from nowhere and wound up on several journalists' year-end favorites lists, impressing many with a beguiling report of magical spell that referenced the shimmer of the Cocteau Twins and the ticktack minelaying of the Black Dog. A Strangely Isolated Place followed in 2003, which was much closer to shoegaze than U.K. techno. Schnauss has besides had his work force in a number of other projects, including Hexaquart (minimum techno-house) and Ethereal 77 (drum'n'bass), in addition to technology work for a number of other artists. |
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Monday 11 August 2008
Male Mexican Migrant Workers Have Increased Risk For HIV After Arrival In U.S. Because Of Changes In Sex Habits, Study Finds
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Mexican migrant workers significantly change their sex habits and step-up their risk for HIV after they arrive in the U.S., according to a study conducted by the Pilot Program of California-Mexico Epidemiology Vigilance and released on Tuesday at the XVII International AIDS Conference in Mexico City, AFP/Google.com reports. The subject field involved 458 male Mexican migrant workers ages 18 to 69 who arrived in the U.S. during the past tense five years. Researchers conducted the study in California, where about 40% of Mexican immigrants live, in conjunction with state and Mexican authorities and social groups.
According to the study, the percentage of male Mexican migrant workers who had sexual relations with commercial sex workers increased from 18.1% to 29.4% later they arrived in the U.S. The study besides found that the percentage of male Mexican migrant workers world Health Organization had intimate relations under the influence of alcoholic drink increased from 24.6% to 41.3% afterwards they arrived in the U.S. However, the work found that 81.4% of male person Mexican migrant workers regularly used condoms before they arrived in the U.S., compared with 65.1% after they arrived.
Melissa Sanchez, who presented the study, said that male Mexican migrant workers ages 18 to 29 are at the highest risk for HIV as a resultant of their sexual practices (AFP/Google.com, 8/5).
Kaisernetwork.org is the official webcaster of the XVII International AIDS Conference in Mexico City. Click here to sign up for your Daily Update e-mail during the conference. A webcast of a conference sitting on Latin America is available online.
Reprinted with genial permission from http://www.kaisernetwork.org. You commode view the entire Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report, search the archives, or sign up for email delivery at http://www.kaisernetwork.
Mexican migrant workers significantly change their sex habits and step-up their risk for HIV after they arrive in the U.S., according to a study conducted by the Pilot Program of California-Mexico Epidemiology Vigilance and released on Tuesday at the XVII International AIDS Conference in Mexico City, AFP/Google.com reports. The subject field involved 458 male Mexican migrant workers ages 18 to 69 who arrived in the U.S. during the past tense five years. Researchers conducted the study in California, where about 40% of Mexican immigrants live, in conjunction with state and Mexican authorities and social groups.
According to the study, the percentage of male Mexican migrant workers who had sexual relations with commercial sex workers increased from 18.1% to 29.4% later they arrived in the U.S. The study besides found that the percentage of male Mexican migrant workers world Health Organization had intimate relations under the influence of alcoholic drink increased from 24.6% to 41.3% afterwards they arrived in the U.S. However, the work found that 81.4% of male person Mexican migrant workers regularly used condoms before they arrived in the U.S., compared with 65.1% after they arrived.
Melissa Sanchez, who presented the study, said that male Mexican migrant workers ages 18 to 29 are at the highest risk for HIV as a resultant of their sexual practices (AFP/Google.com, 8/5).
Kaisernetwork.org is the official webcaster of the XVII International AIDS Conference in Mexico City. Click here to sign up for your Daily Update e-mail during the conference. A webcast of a conference sitting on Latin America is available online.
Reprinted with genial permission from http://www.kaisernetwork.org. You commode view the entire Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report, search the archives, or sign up for email delivery at http://www.kaisernetwork.
Wednesday 6 August 2008
Taylor's Publicist Plays Down Health Scare
Hollywood star Dame Elizabeth Taylor's publicist has denied reports the actress is on death's door - insisting she's waiting to be laid-off from hospital. The 76-year-old is aforementioned to birth been admitted to a medical centre on 15 July after being diagnosed with pneumonia, but her condition reportedly worsened in the undermentioned days. Taylor then suffered congestive heart failure on Wednesday night and was placed on a respiration machine, according to yellow journalism, the National Enquirer. But the star's spokesperson insists her health problems have been overdone - and that the actress' hospital stint was a bare precaution. The rep says, "Ms. Taylor is fine. The rumours which began in England about her health ar dramatic, overdone and false. Her hospital visit was precautionary. She will be returning home shortly. At present, she is surrounded by category, friends and fabulous jewels." Taylor - who suffers from diabetes and osteoporosis - has been plagued with health problems over the final few long time. She was first diagnosed with congestive heart failure in 2004 and has endured two hip replacement operations and the removal of a benign genius tumour in 1997.
Thursday 19 June 2008
Artist Cameron Hayes Paints Missing Link Between Sugarhill Gang and Hieronymus Bosch
Cameron Hayes’s By the time they opened the first Museum of Rap in Fatehpur Sikri no-one could taste, smell, feel, hear or remember it anyway (2006).Click to open a larger version in a new window.Courtesy of Ronald Feldman Fine Arts
Aussie artist Cameron Hayes paints vast, intricate works derived equally from the pages of the Bible as from the weird visionary ramblings your college roommate might have had on peyote and painted while snacked out in front of MTV. Here he replaces Hieronymus Bosch's licentious biblical characters lounging around fountains with shriveled rappers in an overcrowded cityscape. See more works jam-packed with historical oddities at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts through June 28. —Emma Pearse
Aussie artist Cameron Hayes paints vast, intricate works derived equally from the pages of the Bible as from the weird visionary ramblings your college roommate might have had on peyote and painted while snacked out in front of MTV. Here he replaces Hieronymus Bosch's licentious biblical characters lounging around fountains with shriveled rappers in an overcrowded cityscape. See more works jam-packed with historical oddities at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts through June 28. —Emma Pearse
Friday 13 June 2008
TV3 anchor still squirming at VC controversy
John Campbell is sitting in the studio explaining the "splendid unreality of television".
His hair, usually a sculpted hedge, is now fluffed up like a rooster's comb: the TV3 star has been running his hands through it in distress. Luckily the cameras are dead and the lights are off.
The set, he explains, is "like a very large garage". It's "weirdly intimate". Each night, while he waits to launch the show, the weather presenter is performing in front of the blue screen beside him. "For four minutes I have to sit here in complete silence." It's a time of agitation and repose.
But at 7pm, when he starts, he has no sense of hundreds of thousands of people watching him. "It's just me, the crew, and Carol [Hirschfeld] in my earpiece." His real audience is the crew, who "laugh or they don't laugh they're just like viewers", he explains. "I take my cue from them about how it is going."
And while he talks, the newsreaders are slipping out the other side of the garage, a downstairs room in a blah building in Auckland's Eden Terrace.
Campbell operates in a strange zone between public and private. He is, of course, a famous face and behind the face is a desperate urge to be left alone. The interviewer hates being interviewed, especially about himself, but that's what's happening now.
And we are discussing the fiasco over his "interview" with the thief who stole the Victoria Crosses: when the private Campbell was publicly humiliated. This open-air bollocking seems to have thrown him.
"There have been moments in this job when I've wanted Scotty to beam me up so much," he says. "Because like anybody in public life like anybody in any life humiliation, public embarrassment, shame, whatever, is exactly the same for me as it is for anyone else. I don't feel it less because I've been on television for so many years."
Campbell says the row over the purported interview actually a reconstruction with an actor playing the thief "knocked me because it was a mistake by us and it was just one of those things... in my experience of being a journalist, for what that's worth, for 20-odd years now, it is that very often disasters are simply mistakes. There aren't conspiracy theories or premeditation, someone just buggers things up, and we did there.
"We got this great get, you know. For whatever reason, this guy he still hasn't been arrested I actually think at some level he hadn't realised the magnitude of what he'd done. I think he actually needed to say to people, `Actually, reeeeaaaaallly stupid thing. I feel really stupid. I've given them back. I want you to know I understand."'
The thief seemed not so much guilty as embarrassed about what he'd done. "I mean, if you steal a bloody widescreen from someone the rest of humanity doesn't give a shit," says Campbell. "But actually he managed to steal something that everybody in the country cared about."
Campbell abruptly changes tack. "Had we just said `reconstruction', then... So afterwards we spent a lot of time saying to ourselves, buuuug-ah, bugger bugger bugger bugger bugger." The TV host seems almost as embarrassed as the thief.
"Highly-strung" is too limp a description for Campbell. The soul of the TV host is constantly twanging, and humiliation seems to have stretched it to new extremes of tautness. He has been in trouble before, of course, most notably with his controversial ambush interview with Helen Clark at the height of the Corngate Affair. Clark called him a little creep, and plenty of pundits took her side.
But in that case Campbell felt he was justified, a vital consideration for a man whose moral tone, and sense of his own moral purpose, is pitched pretty high. "I did that interview, and I don't resile from it," he says. "I think the BSA [the Broadcasting Standards Authority, which criticised him over it] got it wrong."
But this moral comfort is not available over the medal thief, which was just a botch. In this case, the TV host who freely admits he likes to be liked found himself spurned and lacking any excuses. The soul vibrates likes a hummingbird's wings.
A particularly wounding blow came from displaced alpha broadcaster Paul Holmes, who devoted a long newspaper piece to Campbell's "deceitful transgression".
"He didn't simply stuff up. Campbell deceived. It was the most deceitful transgression I have ever seen in television current affairs. It was astoundingly wrong. It was astoundingly stupid... "
Campbell declines to answer Holmes, but he does remark: "He's always nice to my face."
This year Campbell abandoned his trademark tie he now wears it only on special occasions and he misses it. The new look was an attempt to get rid of a possible obstacle to viewers in areas outside the big cities, where the show always rates best. "In the centres where we don't rate so well I think there might be a sense that I'm a bit, you know, a bit up myself or aloof or remote or something."
He loves wearing ties: it helps him feel like a TV host. "My little boy puts on a space suit and genuinely believes he's an astronaut. Well, for me, dressing up to go on television is part of the process of making the transition one is required to go into the studio. You're inventing yourself... So I miss the tie, but I'm getting used to it now."
Some wonder whether the tie is a prop to hide behind and that Campbell's elaborate courtesy is a defence mechanism to keep the world at bay. It's true, he says, that his politeness can be like that, especially when people see him out in the world and want to talk. "What you want to do is not offend them or be rude, and you also have to remember that that's probably the only encounter they're going to have with this chap who's been coming into their living rooms five nights a week. But equally I have to survive and move on, particularly when I live my life as middle-aged father of two."
But when he relaxes with friends, he says, his manners aren't a shield. Campbell's commitment to good manners is a passion.
"The real me is an extremely formal chap, you know, I believe strongly in manners and I believe strongly in do unto others and all of that kind of stuff...
"When I see somebody being rude to a waitress or an air hostess or whatever it reaaaaallly upsets me. Where is their mandate from? Who mandates them to talk to somebody like this? We should always leave people at least as well as we found them. I mean, that's the very least we owe them as citizens in the same community.
"I feel that really strongly and I find it odd that we live in a world where one has to justify that! I mean it seems to me that if one is an arsehole or if you're cynical or rude that somehow is seen as legitimate and real and honest and therefore in some respects meritorious. Well, as far as I'm concerned, that's a pile of steaming turd!"
There is too much cynicism in journalism. "One, it's lazy and it's a default setting. Two, it offers heat but no light. Oh, there's too much of it. Scepticism is a different thing entirely. Scepticism is entirely reasonable and legitimate and should be required of us."
But what irritates people about Campbell is gush. His enthusiasms are torrential and sudden, and cooler viewers think Campbell gets carried away. Some think it's a pose, but that seems to be wrong.
Today, for instance, he is interviewing Scott Dixon, the Manurewa lad who has just won the richest sporting event in the world, the Indianapolis 500. Campbell is thrilled at his victory, and when he finally gets through on the phone the joy overflows.
"Scott! Everyone is so proud of you!... Everyone is just stoked, it's just great news! Ohhhhh, congratulations!"
When he comes off the phone, Campbell is glowing and fizzing. It's "a wonderful moment for me because how can you not be happy for that guy? Even though I'm not a petrolhead motor racing fan, I don't follow it in the least, how can you not like the bugger?"
All journalists have felt this thrill of course, and they are as liable to nationalist pride as the next person. What is so striking about Campbell, though, is the extremity of the enthusiasm. His affection bursts out in great purple blobs, sometimes in strange places. Introducing the Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz at Wellington Readers and Writers' week this year, Campbell said he had been so pleased at Stiglitz's defence of American monetary policy the US Federal Reserve targets not just low inflation but full employment "that I wanted to ask you to marry me!"
Campbell's politics also annoy some viewers: he doesn't keep them a secret, as most broadcasters do, and he once notoriously revealed that he had voted Alliance. Now he seems to want to change his image as a left-winger.
"I don't know where people get the idea that I'm a socialist... People have got it into their heads that because I like the arts and because I like music that I am some kind of parody of a white liberal," he says. "In fact I have a profoundly idealistic attitude towards just about every political persuasion as long as there's no bigotry there."
He was not party-political left, and he had voted for the Alliance's Laila Harre because "she was doing fantastic work on paid parental leave, she was a bright really impressive dedicated MP who even her opponents I think begrudgingly admired...
"And, in good faith, I believe it's inappropriate for me to support either of the two major parties. No, I just don't think that's right, because I interview them both. I feel very strongly about that.
"But I also feel passionately about democracy, so people who don't vote piss me off. So I've just got to cast my vote around the fringes really. And the people who criticised me and many of them were other journalists what, do they not vote? Do they abrogate their democratic right? I mean, you know, it was like people discovering that their parents have sex. It was!
"And some people who criticised me have media-trained senior politicians, which I would not do but I regard as a total betrayal of journalism."
Campbell says he is socially liberal and supported the civil union legislation, homosexual law reform "and all the isms or phobias or whatever I actively dislike. [But] my first job out of university was as a sharebroker, for God's sake. Many of my mates, people I love and adore, are right of Genghis Khan".
Those who accuse him of being too gushy forget about his interviews with politicians. "I've done some of the toughest, most robust, most controversial interviews on New Zealand television in the last decade." The Corngate interview with Clark was nothing if not tough. His Budget-night interviews with Clark and Key were Campbell at his best: sharp, hard, and fast.
When Key wobbled on how he was going to pay for National's tax cuts, Campbell barked and leaped, accusing him of being "as slippery as a snake in wet grass on this subject". When Clark waffled about Labour's tax cuts as being a response to economic hard times and high dairy and petrol prices, Campbell asked: "And polls?"
To those who say his show has turned soft, Campbell says: hang around for the next five months of the election campaign and see. He is also eager to scotch the rumour that his show is failing in the ratings. While it rated poorly at the start of the year, it has since lifted, according to figures from AGB Nielsen. It is closer to its TV1 rival Close Up than it was two years ago.
Campbell Live's ratings usually dive in summer, he says, because the show's audience is younger "and the problem with young people in urban centres over January is that they do stuff. They might be staying after work for a drink or having barbecues or playing tennis or going to the beach... We really don't see our audience returning in any numbers till daylight saving ends."
Campbell is an extreme example of what might be called the Actor's Paradox: a retiring and private man by nature, his job is to perform each day in front of a national audience. This courtly fellow must do what most people never do: his job is "to stab politicians in the front, not the back".
During the weekends, all he wants to do is take his daughter to the ballet and his lad to rugby and hang out with friends. "I'm not a gregarious person. I don't go to parties, so it suits me to be at home."
He can't explain these contradictions. "I haven't a clue."
His politeness comes from his family, he says, who "by the time I was sentient was truly middle-class and then became upper middle-class as I grew older". They lived in a beautiful home in the very expensive suburb of Oriental Bay in Wellington.
His father was a businessman who ended up as business manager for the 1987 Rugby World Cup. His mother a political liberal trained in France to become a chef and now runs a successful French bistro in Martinborough ("an epiphany", raved the New York Times).
The teenaged Campbell opposed the 1981 Springbok Tour, and his father was for it. But there were never any screaming matches in this family.
"Losing my temper's not really ever been a habit of mine. I find it very, very unattractive, deeply unattractive."
The family wasn't into "tantrum-throwing either". The worse things got, it seems, was that "Dad and I, during my adolescence, we on occasions took our own counsel."
So how did this shy and genteel chap cope with the hatred, such as the time a woman leaned into the pram he was pushing in Ponsonby Rd and told his daughter, "I pity you having him as a father"?
"You just have to let it not upset you too much, otherwise I shouldn't be doing this job," he says. He ignores the insane ones. But typically, if he thinks the person is right, even if they're vicious, "I often write back to them and say, `Actually, that's a good point."'
John Campbell always tries to be fair.
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Friday 6 June 2008
Amy Winehouse - Winehouse Wants To Renew Wedding Vows
Troubled soul star AMY WINEHOUSE is planning to renew her wedding vows with husband BLAKE FIELDER-CIVIL once he is released from jail.
The Rehab hitmaker recently slammed reports her marriage is in trouble after she had allegedly fallen for her manager's assistant Alex Haynes.
Meanwhile, Fielder-Civil, who is currently behind bars in London's Pentonville Prison, was also said to have developed a close relationship with friend Sarah Thomas, after receiving frequent visits from his close pal.
However, the couple is allegedly keen to prove critics wrong, and want to reaffirm their love and dedication to one another in an intimate ceremony in East London as soon as Fielder-Civil is free.
A source tells Britain's Sunday Mirror, "Amy and Blake are more determined than ever to show the world they are together.
"As soon as he is out they will be renewing their wedding vows... They want another wedding, a family and are even planning to set up a business together."
Winehouse wed the music industry assistant, 25, in an unannounced ceremony in Miami, Florida last May (07) - less than a month after he proposed to her.
Fielder-Civil is currently waiting to stand trial against allegations of perverting the course of justice in relation to an earlier charge of grievous bodily harm.
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Saturday 31 May 2008
Matmos, Supreme Balloon
Reducing synthesisers to little more than electronic whoopee cushions may be a laugh but having to listen to it is another matter altogether.
Sunday 11 May 2008
Atonement
Atonement
On a sultry summer day in 1935, an upper crust Brits family prepares for a dinner
Will Smith Plugs Into Online Music Site
Will Smith Plugs Into Online Music Site
Will Smith's company, Overbrook Amusement, has announced a strategic partnership with a freshly music video website called Pluggedin.com.The freshly situation features over 10,000 major label music videos streaming disembarrass online, and offers over unity one thousand thousand creative person profils.According to a press passing, Smith's company is "investing both its capital and resources into Pluggedin's groundbreaking consumer experience." Jeff Somers, the CEO of pluggedin.com, explains, "We're building a unique experience for fans - a place where they can meet and interact with from each one other, and where they can bask, fall upon and share premium character telecasting content."Exposure courtesy of Overbrook Entertainment.
DJ Quest And Sonz Of Mecha
Artist: DJ Quest And Sonz Of Mecha
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Crowd Rocka And I Got Style (DC001) Vinyl
Year: 2004
Tracks: 2
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