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News: Education

Jamie Foxx Brings Kids $500k of Donated Instruments

February 9, 2010

Actor Jamie Foxx's love for music is inspiring the Oscar winning actor to give back to his community. The actor, who is also a Grammy winner, says music got him where he is today and he wants young people to enjoy the benefits of the arts. Foxx encouraged the next generation of musicians to pursue their ...

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News: Technology

How Google Buzz is Disruptive: Open Data Standards

February 9, 2010

Google rolled out a social stream service today called Buzz. It looks on the surface like Facebook, FriendFeed and other stream reading and writing services. It will compete with Facebook and Twitter. Under the covers, though, this major product was built by a team of people taking a radical new approach to online publishing: ...

News: Technology

Google Making Gmail into a Communications Hub

February 9, 2010

Gmail users will soon have more ways to keep up with their friends via a widget that shows quick status updates like Facebook and Twitter do, The Wall Street Journal reports. The move would further turn Gmail, which revolutionized online e-mail, into a comprehensive communications hub. The intent is to keep peoples attention centered on Google, ...

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News: TV / Film

Leno to Letterman: Thanks

February 9, 2010

Jay Leno to David Letterman: Thanks for Super Bowl ad invite Leno said that “whatever happened in the last 18 years disappeared" when the two comics got together to film their surprise Super Bowl ad last week. “He was very gracious," Leno said Monday on his prime-time show, which ends Tuesday. “We talked about the old ...

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News: Music Industry

Lil Wayne Sentencing Postponed in NYC Gun-Possession Case Because Rapper Needs Dental Surgery

February 9, 2010

The Grammy Award-winning rapper's sentencing in a New York City gun case was postponed Tuesday, because he needs to finish a string of recent surgeries before he goes to jail. Lil Wayne, one of music's biggest sellers and rap's hottest stars, is poised to spend as much as a year in jail under a plea deal, ...

News: Technology

Driver's Licenses for the Internet

February 9, 2010

The conversation about where to draw the line between privacy and security is as old as society itself. I didn't mean to so forcefully insert myself into the middle of that debate when I wrote about a Microsoft executive ruminating on the possibility of driver's licenses for the Internet. Alas, here I am. That original blog ...

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News: Music Industry

Michael Jackson's Autopsy Report Released

February 9, 2010

Now that Conrad Murray has been charged with involuntary manslaughter, Michael Jackson's autopsy report has been released. Listing acute propofol intoxication administered by another person as the cause of death, according to the report via the LA Times. The amount of propofol used was equivalent to a major surgery, it said. “There are NO reports of ...

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News: Event

Sinatra and Dino Get Las Vegas Stars

February 9, 2010

Sinatra, Martin to receive stars in Las Vegas Sin City is paying homage to iconic singers Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin by giving them each a place on the Las Vegas Walk of Stars. Las Vegas Walk of Stars spokesman Pablo Castro Zavala said stars for the crooners would be unveiled Feb. 22 in a ceremony ...

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News: Event

Ringo Gets Star

February 9, 2010

Legendary Beatles drummer Ringo Starr was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame during a ceremony that also marked the 50th anniversary of the tourist attraction's groundbreaking. Starr's name was the 2,401st to be unveiled on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Eagles guitarist Joe Walsh, bassist and music producer Don Was, singer-songwriter Ben ...

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News: Event

Banjo Brothers Steve Martin and Ed Helms Get a Little Punchy

February 9, 2010

Steve Martin, sporting a jaunty fedora and a suit, spotted Ed Helms across the room. “I thought I'd find you here," the comic said of “The Office" star. Birds of a feather and all that. But it wasn't their common pedigree as celebrated funnymen that brought the two to the California Market Center on Saturday evening ...