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Songwriter Makes $1.25m Bail in NY Sex Case

Source: All About Jazz
February 3, 2010

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Ask Aretha Franklin

Source: All About Jazz
February 3, 2010

She hardly needs an introduction -- in fact, she doesn't even really need a last name.

Aretha -- also known as the Queen of Soul -- burst onto the scene in the 1960s, when she signed on with Atlantic Records to release hits like Chain of Fools, “Respect" and “Natural Woman." In 1987, she became the first woman to ever be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. She has won 18 Grammy awards and performed at three ...

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Skype New 3G iPhone App Coming Soon CD-Quality Sound

Source: Michael Ricci
February 3, 2010

After the news last week that Apple and AT&T are now allowing VoIP apps to make phone calls over the 3G network, Skype said it's still waiting to release a new 3G-ready version of its software for the iPhone. Today the company offered a few updates on the progress of the app, which it is apparently putting the finishes touches on and which Skype says will be available “really soon." In a YouTube video, David Ponsford, the leader of Skype's ...

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Twitter Speaks out About Hack Attacks, Tells Users to Beware

Source: Michael Ricci
February 3, 2010

In an attempt to protect users that it feared were subject to a malicious hacker attack, Twitter has issued password-reset requests to all possibly affected accounts, the company wrote in a blog post Tuesday night. Over the last five days, Twitter noticed a few accounts had a “sudden surge in followers." Believing the activity was odd, the company decided to push out password resets to all accounts that were following the suspicious users. But after investigating the activities of those ...

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The Hypochondriacs

Source: Michael Ricci
February 3, 2010

Brian Dillon's book takes a look at nine famous people and their real and perceived ailments.

One of the gags in Woody Allen's “Whatever Works" involves Allen's neurotic alter ego (Larry David) bemoaning an ulcer. When his ridiculously young girlfriend (Evan Rachel Wood) reminds him that he doesn't have an ulcer, he retorts, “I didn't say I don't have an ulcer -- I said they haven't found one yet." That, in a nutshell, is hypochondria today: health anxiety, inflamed by ...

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Los Angeles Tonight

Source: All About Jazz
February 3, 2010

Prefuse 73, The Gaslamp Killer, Voices Voices The Troubadour Wed., February 3, 8:00pm West Hollywood Rock

Kofi Baker The Baked Potato Wed., February 3 San Fernando Valley Jazz Rock Tribute

The Don Menza Quartet Charlie O's Wed., February 3 San Fernando Valley Jazz

Balance & the Travelling Sound Dakota Music Lounge Wed., February 3 Santa Monica ...

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Best Original Song Nominee List Missing a Few Songs of Note

Source: Michael Ricci
February 3, 2010

ORIGINAL SONG U2, Paul McCartney and Mary J. Blige are among those who miss out on the short list.

By most criteria, Paul McCartney and U2 have little reason to regard French composers Reinhardt Wagner and Frank Thomas with envy.

But Tuesday, Wagner and Thomas scored an Oscar nomination for best original song -- for “Loin de Paname" from the little-seen French movie “Paris 36" -- while neither “Winter," U2's contribution to the soundtrack of Jim Sheridan's “Brothers," ...

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Mr. Ayers -- Recording Artist

Source: Michael Ricci
February 3, 2010

Nathaniel Ayers was joined in the studio by Flea and two members of the L.A. Philharmonic. With a little help from his friends, the Soloist cuts his first CD.

By Steve Lopez

I was beginning to think we'd never get around to making the CD that Nathaniel Anthony Ayers has been talking about for years.

Last summer, on a trip to San Francisco, where Mr. Ayers was honored for his spirit by the National Alliance on Mental Illness, we came ...

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