CMJ Music and Film Marathon
It happens once a year. You know, that time when starving artists bring their busted equipment to the Big Apple with high hopes of making headlines. When the media straps on their shiny press badges, waving them at anyone who will notice, and when New York City is reeling from the influx of a thousand [...]
Interview: Sander Van Doorn
Sander Van Doorn at the Austin Music Hall October 28, After Release of New Album “Elev11” Dutch DJ Sander Van Doorn, who currently sits at # 16 on this year’s DJ Mag top 100 DJs Poll will perform this Friday at the Austin Music Hall. We had the chance to interview Van Doorn for his [...]
Boyz II Men still making music after 20 years
In 1991, Boyz II Men arrived on the pop music scene with their own brand of R&B that peppered Motown-like harmonies with New Jack Swing, a genre that fused R&B, hip-hop and pop music. The following year their wrenching ballad “End of the Road” sent the Philadelphia natives to international superstardom, and Tuesday, the band [...]
Kim Kardashian signs on for role in Tyler Perry movie
From newlywed to “Marriage Counselor.” Kim Kardashian has signed on to star in Tyler Perry’s new movie, “The Marriage Counselor,” TheWrap has confirmed. The Lionsgate movie is about an accountant and his Ivy League-educated wife — a marriage counselor who is great at dispensing advice, but makes some seriously bad mistakes in her own marriage. [...]
CDC Panel votes to extend HPV Vaccine to young boys
All males starting at age 11 should receive the HPV vaccine Gardasil to protect themselves against sexually transmitted forms of human papillomavirus, the cause of most cervical and anal cancers as well as most mouth and throat cancers, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advisory committee voted today. Thirteen members of the committee [...]
Gas pump handles top study of filthy surfaces
Just when you thought filling up your car could not hurt any more, researchers may have found another reason to avoid touching the gas pump: germs. Gas pump handles turned out to be the filthiest surface that Americans encounter on the way to work, according to a study released on Tuesday by Kimberly-Clark Professional, a [...]
Austin Tequila Fest benefiting the homeless coach
Austin Tequila Society presents “2nd Austin Tequila Fest”: An Evening of Tequila tasting, fun, food and music on November 4th, 2011 from 7pm to 9pm at Casa Chapala (101 San Jacinto, 78701). Guests and members of Casa Chapala’s Austin Tequila Society will vote for their favorite tequilas from among many distilleries represented to challenge the [...]
Big East exit fee up if expansion plan executed
The Big East wants to expand to 12 football teams “the sooner the better.” The problem is the Big East can’t be sure it’s done losing members until Missouri, the Big 12 and the Southeastern Conference figure out what they’re next steps are in the ongoing drama of conference realignment. “The overall landscape is still [...]
Opinion: A.D. 2041 — End of White America?
By Pat Buchanan John Hope Franklin, the famed black historian at Duke University, once told the incoming freshmen, “The new America in the 21st century will be primarily non-white, a place George Washington would not recognize.” In his June 1998 commencement address at Portland State, President Clinton affirmed it: “In a little more than 50 [...]
Users seeing yellow over iPhone 4S
Even as it racks up record sales, Apple’s hot iPhone 4S is getting panned by a few users who report “washed out” or yellow displays on the device’s vaunted 960×640 Retina touchscreen. A thread on Apple’s Support Communities forum titled “iPhone 4S tint” included 32 posts from users discussing the problem as of Tuesday morning, [...]
