entertainment - "music"

In the grand showbiz tradition, the producers of the MTV music Awards decided the show must go on, in spite of a serious fire in a nearby studio lot.

The Lincoln Theatre Mount Vernon, Washington May 29, 2008 I do not know why it was not front page news that internationally renowned Sitarists--father and son duo, Pandit Shivath and Deobrat Mishra were making a special appearance in town. Certainly folks here could get an eyeful of positive news, of a music that spreads peace and love instead of fear, but sadly, even with the wonderful efforts of the concert promoters, Elfa Gisla and Diane Light, this concert did not receive the fanfare it so deserved. Imagine playing second fiddle to rising gas prices and other gloom. However, for those who did attend the concert held at the historic Lincoln Theatre in Old Town, Mount Vernon, there was plenty of fanfare in the guise of fiery rhythms, and melodic phrases that...

Hey folks, I signed up at Simon Says to get my free $20. Got installed, got the cash, everything's good. Except the program is ANNOYING.1. It starts up with loud music.2. It changes my screen resolution without my permission.3. I tried to load a game and it took like 15 more minutes to d/l one silly game. I needed the computer for work, so I shut down the casino, and my screen resolution didn't go back. They may be honest, but how annoying can your software be?!

This is something different. It is not quite fantasy and not quite science fiction. Not quite a quest epic and not quite a character study. But it is, for the most part, a good read. There are pleasures to be found in its pages that comprise the story of Leodora, a shadow puppeteer, and Diverus, a god-touched musician, and their performances across the interlinking, innumerous bridge-cities that stretch across the fathomless oceans of Shadowbridge.

A pre-Lincoln Center premiere of a new hip-hop musical, a political story that could be ripped from the headlines of today's newspapers and a mesmerizing staging of a classic piece of world literature: these are but a few of the stories Eric Rosen, artistic director of Kansas City Repertory Theatre, will explore on stage in 2008-09, his inaugural season as the Rep's artistic leader.

Cult director Guy Maddin (THE SADDEST music IN THE WORLD) revisits his boyhood in Winnipeg, casting 1940s femme fatale Ann Savage in the role of his mother. The reality-bending doesn't end there. Creative interpretations of local lore, reenactments of childhood traumas, and a quasi-documentary style make MY WINNIPEG a surreal reinvention of childhood.

Futureworld, the latest CD from Miles MacMillan, features melodic synth music in the tradition of Jean-Michel Jarre and early eighties Tangerine Dream.

Music News: Film takes best picture at Movie Awards show -- 'Transformers' is the winner of best movie at the 2008 MTV Movie Awards.

Music News: Worked in the entertainment biz for six decades -- Adman and composer Farlan I. Myers died in Los Angeles on May 27. He was 89.

Music News: Entertainer selling out Caesars Palace -- Any concerns that Celine Dion couldn't be replaced as a marquee Las Vegas attraction have disappeared.