Madden's ex wishes him well with Hilton & other: June 2008

Wednesday, 25 June 2008

Black Attack

Artist: Black Attack

   Genre(s):
Other

Discography:

On the Edge

Year: 1999
Tracks: 12

Born and embossed in Manhattan, Black Attack (real diagnose Sean Boston) knew at 13 age of age that he was going to be an MC. He started kayoed in a local crew named Smoked Out Productions, simply ventured out on his have in the mid-'90s, crossing paths with former Beatnuts phallus Al Tariq, world Health Organization was running on his solo debut, Supreme Being Connections (1996), for Correct Records. In 1997, Black Attack released the tube stumble 12" "Holdin' It Down" b/w "Verbal Attack," featuring mate MC Problemz, on the Correct label. The up-and-comer quickly established a diagnose for himself with that record, only the business closing of things ne'er could match up to the assure of his skills. Black Attack was always spirited from label to label on the independent circuit, with only a few recordings (like the My Crown 12") to demonstrate for it. However, advent into contact with Japanese turntablist DJ Honda, world Health Organization was based in Manhattan at the sentence, aegir some positive results. Black Attack recorded many songs with Honda for his self-titled debut, DJ Honda (1996), as well as HII (1998) and HIII (2001). Work on Honda's irregular album had reunited Black Attack with Al Tariq and Problemz. The trey toured Europe with Honda as well as doing their have gigs. Since the chemistry was there and they were well-received, the trey of them founded Missin' Linx, unfortunately a transitory endeavour. Black Attack was on the verge of calling it quits, simply he resurfaced in 2007 with some other independent individual, "Black Man."

Monday, 16 June 2008

James Dean Gallery moves back to original home in Fairmount, Indiana

FAIRMOUNT, Ind. - The James Dean Gallery is back where the 1950s Hollywood icon grew up.

Owner David Loehr has moved the gallery back to its original spot in Fairmount, Indiana, about 80 kilometres northeast of Indianapolis. He had moved everything out in 2002, after a small electrical fire in the original house. The risk of another fire prompted Loehr to think about getting some of his rare Dean collectibles out of the structure.

The gallery moved to a custom-built, state-of-the-art museum at Gas City's Interstate 69 interchange for two years.

But Loehr says that place was too big and became "unsustainable."

"It got so big, so grand, that it didn't work," Loehr said.

He said he sold some of his memorabilia just to get out of the hole he was in because of the building. Needing a place to house his wares and regroup, Loehr moved the display to the Kruse Automobile Museum in Auburn.

But he decided to move back to the building where he started the gallery in 1988. It features a collection of Dean portraits and rare memorabilia, including hometown artifacts, collectibles, magazines and more.

Dean hit it big with starring roles in "East of Eden," "Rebel" and "Giant," which had just wrapped filming when a station wagon collided with Dean's new silver Porsche Spyder near rural Cholame, Calif., on Sept. 30, 1955. He died instantly.

Loehr is planning new brochures and hopes to market the gallery, which has no admission charge, to Midwestern families looking for a short, affordable day trip.

"James Dean will never die culturally," Loehr said. "There will always be fans."

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Tuesday, 10 June 2008

Garden Tribute For Late Beatle Harrison

Late BEATLE GEORGE HARRISON's widow OLIVIA has created a floral tribute for the legendary musician - by designing a garden in his honour for an English flower show.

The garden will feature as part of England's Chelsea Flower Show, and is entitled Life To Life after a line in the Beatle's hit It's All Too Much.

The tribute will depict Harrison's humble beginnings growing up in Liverpool, England to his post-Beatle life of luxury - all through the medium of plants and flowers.

The garden - which is sponsored by Harrison's own Material World Charitable Foundation - is a fitting tribute for the musician who often frequented the Chelsea Flower Show before he died from lung cancer in 2001.

Olivia tells Britain's Radio Times magazine, "Each year we used to go to Chelsea and George would take copious notes and come home with a list of plants he wanted to buy.

"My hope is that this project will be a tribute to the horticultural side of his personality that relatively few people knew about."

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Spears Loses Place In Hollywood's Top Female Earners

Britney Spears is determined to get her career back on track - after losing her place in a select group of Hollywood's richest women. The pop superstar has been nudged from the top 10 celebrity female earners in a new rich list compiled by Forbes magazine. Spears made the top 10 last year in a similar study by the publication, but just missed out in the 2008 poll ? she was placed 11th on the list with an estimated fortune of $102 million (?51 million). The biggest earner on the Forbes list was chatshow queen Oprah Winfrey, who tops the poll with a massive $1.5 billion (?750 million) fortune. Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling is second after amassing a $1.1 billion (?550 million) fortune thanks to phenomenal global sales of her beloved books and its movie adaptations. Other top earners include Madonna with $325 million (?162 million), Celine Dion with $250 million (?125 million) and singer Mariah Carey, who has earned $226 million (?113 million).

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Seattle Shakes' "All's Well That Ends Well" has a few bright moments

Theater Review |

Even playwrights of genius have their off days. And on one such a day, William Shakespeare completed his stage comedy "All's Well That Ends Well," which Seattle Shakespeare Company is now bravely undertaking at Center House Theatre.

Wedged between the far superior "Twelfth Night" and "Measure for Measure" on the Shakespeare timeline, "All's Well That Ends Well" is verbose, heavily contrived and introduces us to a couple of fairly unsympathetic romancers.

Helena (portrayed by Sarah Harlett) is a "poor physician's daughter" intent on marrying the higher-born Bertram (Connor Toms) — despite the class gap, and Bertram's total resistance.

One of the more conniving yet emotionally tone-deaf leading ladies in the Bard's canon, Helena sweetly but shamelessly ropes in her mark with various subterfuges over the course of the play. Bertram, meanwhile, abandons his bride on their wedding night to soldier and seduce in sunny Italy.

"A man noble without generosity, and young without truth," is how 18th-century Shakespeare critic Samuel Johnson described Bertrand. But Helena is no prize either.

Director Stephanie Shine has her work cut out for her, given the queasy morality on display here. And then there's the plot (inspired by a story from Giovanni Boccaccio's compendium of bawdy tales, "The Decameron"), which plods along, then gets hyperactive.

As the would-be lovers, the fresh-faced Toms and game Harlett (a top-notch comic actor, strapped into a drab ingénue role here) connive and lie — albeit with incongruous sincerity.

Two pleasant musical interludes frame the play's early scenes in France, and its latter segments in Tuscany.

And Seattle Shakes regular Paul Morgan Stetler scampers about adorned with bright silk scarves (as the text suggests), and scares up a few laughs as the foppish fool and cowardly braggart Parolles.

Not all the actors in the ensemble deliver the dialogue's couplets crisply, but Marianne Owen's wise, maternal countess is a model of lucidity — as are Stetler, Toms and Harlett.

And Stetler is adept at the verbal jousting required of Parolles ("words," in French) — as when he expounds on virginity, as "peevish, proud, idle, made of self-love, which is the most inhibited sin."

But "All's Well That Ends Well" needs a bolder, more illuminating approach than the straightforward style Seattle Shakes adopts.

Sludgy with repetition, light on character development, the play relies on sudden turnabouts of fate and affection to further its ends. And it leans on creaky devices like the "bed trick" — a fanciful act of sexual entrapment in Boccaccio's repertoire and Shakespeare's. (The latter also used it in "Measure for Measure.")

"All's Well" does get an attractive physical setting from designer Kurt D. Walls, with green faux marble floors and sienna-toned architecture. Tiana Covolos is responsible for the pleasing, Regency Era-style costumes.

Misha Berson: mberson@seattletimes.com

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Echoes of Nature

Artist: Echoes of Nature

   Genre(s):
kategorien
   Jazz
   Miscellaneous

Discography:

Wilderness River

Year: 2006
Tracks: 4

Sampler

Year: 2006
Tracks: 9

Morning Songbirds

Year: 2006
Tracks: 7

Jungle Talk

Year: 2006
Tracks: 4

Thunderstorm

Year: 2005
Tracks: 3

Ocean Waves

Year: 2005
Tracks: 4

Frog Chorus

Year: 2005
Tracks: 3

American Wilds

Year: 2005
Tracks: 7

Rainforest

Year: 1995
Tracks: 3

Bayou

Year: 1995
Tracks: 3

Cloverfield (2008) [Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller]

James Yorkston

Artist: James Yorkston

   Genre(s):
Rock

Discography:

The Year of the Leopard

Year: 2007
Tracks: 10

Roaring the Gospel

Year: 2007
Tracks: 12

James Yorkston was natural in Kingsbarns, a small small town in Fife, Scotland. At the long time of octonary, Yorkston started playing music and fell in love with the craft. At the long time of 17, he affected from Fife to the larger metropolis of Edinburgh with his girlfriend. It was at the same time that he became involved with a garage rock 'n' roll and kindling band called Huckleberry, with Yorkston being the group's bass player. In 1996, he performed his first acoustic establish afterwards a ally working in a record shop picked Yorkston as an gap act for Bert Jansch in Edinburgh. The acoustic and hoodlum rock candy genres were something the player loved evenly, simply he chose the acoustic phratry route. In 2000, under the name "J. Wright Presents," Yorkston recorded a demo tape at base, sending it to John Peel, wHO played the song dynasty on his program immediately. Yorkston as well sent a tape to John Martyn, requesting an chess opening slot on his Edinburgh depict. Martyn invited Yorkston to be his chess opening dissemble on his intact 30-date tour. "Moving Up Country" was released as a single in October 2000 on Bad Jazz Records. In January 2001, the song was released as a 7" single. Exactly a year later, Yorkston released a split single with the Lone Pigeon. In May 2002 Yorkston and his supporting stray the Athletes released an EP called St. Patrick. In June Yorkston released his debut record album, Moving Up Country. Citing Anna Briggs, Lal Waterson, Nick Drake, and Malagasy guitar player D'Gary as musical influences, Yorkston as well has opened for Lambchop, Turin Brakes, the Divine Comedy, and Gemma Hayes. The Someplace Simple EP appeared in December 2003. In February 2004 Yorkston and his group hit the studio with producer Kieran Hebden of Four Tet. The results of the session were released in late 2004 as Just Beyond the River on Domino. The undermentioned year the Spanish label Houston Records issued the EP Hoopoo, which included five new songs, among other things, and in 2007 Yorkston's third full-length, The Year of the Leopard, came out in the U.S. (it had already hit British shelves that former fall).

Vaya Con Dios

Artist: Vaya Con Dios

   Genre(s):
Pop
   Pop: Latin
   Easy Listening

Discography:

The Promise

Year: 2004
Tracks: 12

Yeware

Year: 2002
Tracks: 12

Golden Collection

Year: 2000
Tracks: 22

The Best Of

Year: 1999
Tracks: 16

Songs By Purple Prose

Year: 1999
Tracks: 13

What's a Woman CDS

Year: 1998
Tracks: 2

What's a Woman

Year: 1998
Tracks: 17

Roots and Wings

Year: 1995
Tracks: 12

Time Flies

Year: 1993
Tracks: 13

Night Owls

Year: 1990
Tracks: 12

Con Dios (Limited Edition)

Year: 1988
Tracks: 12

Latin ring Vaya sting Dios released several albums for Ariola Records during the eighties and '90s. Some of the material is poised on Charles Herbert Best Of, released in late 1996.

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