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'Cove' Release Sparks Ire in Japan
Oscar-winning doc “The Cove," which depicts the annual dolphin slaughter in Taiji, Japan, is now set for a June 26 Japanese bow on 27 screens -- but the road to release has been rocky and the troubles may not yet be over. “The Cove's" helmer Louie Psihoyos and his staff encountered fierce opposition from the locals ...
Southern California Summer Festivals and Performances
A look at the wide array of musical offerings around Southern California this summer. June 12-13 The Playboy Jazz Festival The 32nd annual summer music party returns, with performances by Chick Corea, George Benson, Kurt Elling, Esperanza Spalding, Bobby Hutcherson, the Manhattan Transfer and more. The Hollywood Bowl ...
Skype over 3G Comes to the iPhone. It's Not All Good News
Skype on Saturday released an upgrade to its iPhone app that allows calls to be made and received under AT&Ts 3G network, but theres a catch they wont be free for very long. Even for Skype-to-Skype calls or for people who have all-you-can-eat calling plans with the internet telephony company. No specific pricing or even timeline ...
Trombonist Steve Swell Interviewed at AAJ
Trombonist Steve Swell captures the energy of a big band in the close quarters of a small group. An alumnus of Buddy Rich's and Lionel Hampton's bands on the one hand, and collaborator with Anthony Braxton on the other, he seems bound to have fixed upon such a hybrid configuration at some point.But how an artist ...
Theme Songs Integral Part of Classic Remakes
Studios capitalize on title tunes familiar to both old and young. In a year when the TV Academy nearly abolished its Emmy “main title theme" category, classic TV themes are turning out to be incredibly valuable properties -- especially when it comes to remakes. An update of “Hawaii Five-O" is coming to CBS in the fall, ...
Top Ten Jazz Movies
The Bottom Line: This category was not as crowded as I would have liked because there are few great movies about jazz but several movies with great jazz. This is a very difficult epinion for me to write because I love jazz so much and movies about jazz are few and far between or just plain ...
Suicides a PR Nightmare for Apple
How Chinese Suicides Could Hurt Apple: A giant manufacturer of iPhones and other popular electronics has a bad employee problem: they're killing themselves. Western shoppers in general don't spend a lot of time thinking about the origins of their brand-name sneakers and electronic devices. But when a sweatshop controversy arises, it can mean trouble for companies ...
Camping with Qaddafi
Spending quality time with the Libyan dictator is in the realm of living dangerously-Risky Business. Radan Popovic, 45, sits in the Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf in West Hollywood, a cup of tea in one hand, the other running through his head of thick, black hair. Hes your average, mild-mannered, former Eastern-bloc cinematographer living the Hollywood ...
Skinbook: Facebook for 21st Century Nudists
The rules for Skinbook are clear: No pornographic images or headless torso shots. Don't leave sleazy comments under people's photos. Boot out any “creeps and voyeurs," as site executives call them, who manage to make it past the vetting process for new members. Skinbook.ning.com is a U.K.-based website that proudly touts itself as the Net's only ...
How Computers Know What We Want Before We Do
Here's an experiment: try thinking of a song not as a song but as a collection of distinct musical attributes. Maybe the song has political lyrics. That would be an attribute. Maybe it has a police siren in it, or a prominent banjo part, or paired vocal harmony, or punk roots. Any one of those would ...
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