Ancient Stone Musical Instrument Discovered in Lam Dong

A collection of lithophones, an ancient musical instrument consisting of 11 slabs (photo), was found by researchers working for the Lam Dong Museum on Thursday. With 30 slabs, this is the largest lithophones find to...

Harder They Come A Theatrical Success

People can be divided into two groups – those who love musicals and those who emphatically don’t. And rarely have the twain met, until now. The stage adaptation of The Harder They Come, based on Perry Henzel’s 1972 “gateway” reggae movie of the same name, makes a...

Bonnaroo Festival 2008

           The Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival was held this past weekend in Manchester, Tennessee. The festival, which featured well over 100 acts...

2008 Tony Award Winners

The 62nd Tony Awards were given out this past Sunday. "Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific" dominated Broadway's top honors, the Tony Awards, with seven prizes on Sunday, followed by the Pulitzer Prize-winning...

David Bowie stage musical in the works

I can't really think of a body of work more suitable for a good musical than that of David Bowie's. There's so many characters to draw from, not to mention opportunities for glammy aliens." If anyone could actually...

Flight Of The Conchords Climb the Charts

UPDATE | April 30 - Conchords Climb the ChartsAnd just like that, the Conchord kids have become an American sensation — though it is strange to see that chart-topping albums barely sell 50,000 copies."A pair of...

Life, death - now it's Diana the musical

The life of Diana, Princess of Wales may be turned into a Broadway musical. I can't imagine having to write that death song..."Former Vanity Fair editor Tina Brown, whose biography of the princess was a bestseller...

Court overturns libel award over restaurant review

A UK court has overturned a €25,000 libel judgement against a newspaper for writing a negative restaurant review." Belfast High Court has ordered a retrial in the case of a newspaper's appeal against a €25,000 libel award over a restaurant review. ...

Bush says "HOWDY DOODY" at journalists' dinner

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorThe President of the United States in preparation of his eventual departure from office next year arrived in style at Washington Journalists Dinner. President Bush donning...

Three music concert committee members declared suspects

""They are guilty under Articles 359 and 360 of the penal code on negligence causing others killed or injured, and may face a jail sentence of five years. We declared the three as suspects after questioning 51 witnesses of the organizing committee, members of the musical...

Ringo Starr Walks Off TV Show

Temper, temper, Mister StarrHow I wonder what you are;Why storm off a tv show?Regis, Kelly, they don't know Temper, temper, Mister Starr,How I wonder what you are...doing to upset folks wherever you go..."Ringo Starr...

GLAAD Award Nominees Announced

It's great to see how far we've come since the days of Ellen DeGeneres' sitcom being the only mainstream television series that promintently featured gay and lesbian characters.  As GLAAD Presiden Neil Giuliano notes, "This year's extraordinary nominees exemplify the...

The Times Starts its Top-50 Lists 11 Months Early

Every year the pundits say, "This'll be the biggest year for blah blah blah..." Inauspicious start, guys and gals, with the ultimate creators of these projects still on strike: anything not already in the can or in...

"Rent" to Shut Down June 1

Can't say I was ever a fan -- it's a bit too Friends-ly for me -- but it is sort of an historical moment. The producers of 12-years-running Broadway play Rent have announced that the final show will be June 1 of this...

For $1,200, Your Band Can Seem 'Popular' on MySpace

Click the link to the full story and read the awesome exchange between Sage Francis' rep and the scammers. I hope that bands don't get suckered into believing a fake number of plays on MySpace will really boost their...

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