August, 2010
New Video Shows Haiti Earthquake
By John Doe at August 23, 2010 | 11:02 am | 0 Comment
The river was not high, so there was not more than a two or three mile current. Hardly a word was said during the next three-quarters of an hour. Now the raft was passing before the distant town. Two or three glimmering lights showed where it lay, peacefully sleeping, beyond the vague vast sweep of star-gemmed water, unconscious of the tremendous event that was more...
Top 10 quirky science tricks for parties
By John Doe at August 23, 2010 | 11:02 am | 0 Comment
Presently she stepped into the kitchen, and Sid, happy in his immunity, reached for the more...
Auto-Tune the News
By John Doe at August 23, 2010 | 11:02 am | 0 Comment
The raft drew beyond the middle of the river; the boys pointed her head right, and then lay on their oars. The river was not high, so there was not more than a two or three mile current. Hardly a word was said during the next three-quarters of an hour. Now the raft was passing before the distant town. Two or three glimmering lights showed where it lay, peacefully more...
BP debt rating is cut as gulf oil leak costs mount
By John Doe at August 23, 2010 | 11:02 am | 0 Comment
Moodys Investors Service and Fitch Ratings reduce their credit ratings for the oil giant, which estimates the cleanup and containment could cost it $3 billion.Some oil industry analysts say BP might have to sell assets to pay for efforts to stop the Gulf of Mexico oil leak, including the drilling of a relief well, above, and clean up the mess. Others say the company has more...
Where Bands Jam, but Traffic Flows
By John Doe at August 23, 2010 | 11:02 am | 1 Comments
MANCHESTER, Tenn. - In a warehouse next to his home, David Pennington, the mayor of Coffee County, stores enough pop-culture memorabilia to make a lesser collector gasp. There are entire walls of Gene Autry items, faded Coca-Cola signs hanging from the ceilings and rare baseball cards in a glass display case. Stashed throughout are reams of posters, tickets and magazine more...
The Sounds and Songs of Stanley Cup Rivals
By John Doe at August 23, 2010 | 11:02 am | 2 Comments
Here at the Wachovia Center, "God Bless America" is performed live by Lauren Hart or with her accompanying a videotape by Kate Smith, who died in 1986. "It´s just so much fun for me," Hart, wearing her lucky outfit - a black leather jacket, a Flyers T-shirt from 1974, their first Stanley Cup year, and other items - said before Game 6 on more...
Songs That Rock the Boat, With Heart and Soul, Too
By John Doe at August 23, 2010 | 11:02 am | 0 Comment
On the face of it, Frank Loesser, one of Broadway´s all-time great wielders of urban slang, and Karen Oberlin, a demure pop-jazz singer who radiates a subdued glamour, are not a natural fit. Had he lived in a later time, Loesser, who died in 1969, might have turned a Martin Scorsese movie like "Raging Bull" into a hard-boiled pop opera. Nothing about Ms. more...
Tapping the Roots of American Music
By John Doe at August 23, 2010 | 11:02 am | 1 Comments
The closing concert of the enterprising Riverside Symphony´s 29th season, on Wednesday evening at Alice Tully Hall, was a thematic program that pulled together 20th-century works with roots in American vernacular music. It was, in a way, the perfect program for our eclectic, genre-hopping time, not only because it illustrated the porousness between formal and more...
On the Horns of Abundance: Jazz Festivals Resound
By John Doe at August 23, 2010 | 11:02 am | 1 Comments
N extraordinary amount of jazz hits New York over the next two weeks: four festivals, about 150 sets, and much of it extracurricular to the usual riches at the clubs. It´s a time of marathons and breadth and goes in heavy for the new: not just youth, but also new aesthetic combinations, new attitudes toward repertory, new influences and paradigms, new clubs and more...
Lady Madonna? Gaga Channels Madge in Video
By John Doe at August 23, 2010 | 11:02 am | 1 Comments
Is Lady Gagas Alejandro Video a Rip-Off or Homage to Madonna? Gagas most-recent single, Alejandro,premiered, fans and music writers have been divided over whether Gaga was trying to flatter the Material Girl or rip-off her best-known videos.Madge has yet to weigh in on the debate. Her rep did not respond to ABCNews.com request for comment. But if her remarks at last more...
