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News: Technology

iPad, iPhone and Cash Mountain Expected to Dominate Apple Annual Meeting

February 25, 2010

When Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs holds his annual face-to-face meeting with shareholders Thursday there will be no shortage of questions for a company famously stingy with information. Shareholders want to know what Jobs has planned for the iPad, whether the iPhone can sustain its growth momentum amid greater competition, and what the company will do ...

News: Festival

Taiko Fest La Mirada Weekend

February 25, 2010

This weekend, Biola University will hold it's annual Student Congress on Racial Reconciliation (SCORR). Now in its fourteenth year, the conference attracts over two hundred attendees, including students, faculty and alumni from various Christian universities across the nation, seeking to dialog on issues concerning social justice, diversity and reconciliation within Christian Higher Education. Closing the conference ...

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News: Technology

The Twitter Effect on Oscar

February 25, 2010

Most of the nominees have accounts -- and some even use them -- but nobody's tweeting for votes in 140-word haikus. On Twitter, Jesse James has never been one to mince words. He tweets with all the bad boy attitude and mucho macho swagger you'd expect from a celebrity chopper mechanic and star of such reality ...

News: Technology

Half of Twitter Tweets Not in English

February 25, 2010

Twitter might be a U.S.-based service, but thanks to the company's efforts at expanding its footprint internationally, approximately 50% of all tweets are not in English, Web research firm Semiocast has revealed. According to Semiocast, which examined 2.8 million tweets over two days in February, 50% of all messages sent on Twitter are in English. Japanese, ...

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News: Festival

George Wein and Carefusion Announce New York Jazz Festival Schedule

February 25, 2010

CAREFUSION JAZZ FESTIVAL MAKES NEW YORK DEBUT JUNE 17 - 26 45 Concerts at 20 Venues Highlight CareFusion Jazz Festival New York NEW YORK, NY, February 25, 2010 - CareFusion, a leading global medical device company, and festival producer George Wein today announced the schedule for the CareFusion Jazz Festival New York, which takes over the ...

News: Technology

Conan O'Brien's First Public Act Since He Left 'The Tonight Show' is a Tweet

February 25, 2010

Conan O'Brien joins Twitter and doubles Jay Leno's follower count in two hours. O'Brien may not have had any fans in the NBC Universal boardroom, but there was perhaps no stronger congregation of Coco supporters than on Twitter. The social network quickly rushed to a profile page for @ConanOBrien that began tweeting on Wednesday. Twitter spokesman ...

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News: Recording

Grateful Dead: '89 Philly Release

February 25, 2010

Grateful Dead Complete July '89 Show Due in Three CD/One DVD Set Grateful Dead The Grateful Dead were enjoying a late-career renaissance in 1989 when the band steamed into Philadelphia on one of the hottest days of the summer to play the last concert ever at John F. Kennedy Stadium. The July 7 show in the ...

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News: Interview

Robin D.G. Kelley, Author of New Thelonious Monk Bio, Interviewed at AAJ

February 25, 2010

Robin D.G. Kelley is the author of Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original (Free Press, 2009), the already definitive biography that has received rave reviews in the press and is the topic of conversation of Monk fans and musicians everywhere. Kelley offers the rich perspective of an African-American historian who knows a ...

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News: Recording

Polar Bear Featured at AAJ!

February 25, 2010

Polar Bear has been on an upward trajectory since its inception in 2005. A critic and fan favorite in England, the quintet - saxophonists Pete Wareham and Mark Lockheart, bassisst Tom Herbert, guitarist Leafcutter John and drummer Sebastian Rochford - will be releasing its latest CD, Peepers (The Leaf Label, 2010) on March 1, 2010. AAJ ...

News: Music Industry

Roanoke, VA: Where Music is Made Matters

February 25, 2010

Virginia's Star City Explores Music As An Economic Driver I've written before about how where music is made matters. Not only can music add flavor to a city as it does in Nashville, Memphis and New Orleans; but musicians can also be harbingers of future growth as we've seen in places like Austin and Brooklyn Heights, ...