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News: TV / Film

Is Dr. Teeth a Jazz Muppet?

April 5, 2010

OK, its been too long since Ive posted anything at the blog again but rather than shut things down entirely (as I did in September) I am trying a slightly different strategy for combating the chain of events (too busy to read other jazz blogs, focus my writing energy elsewhere, too tired to write at the ...

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News: Recording

Marc Wagnon's CD Release "Earth is a Cruel Master" on Buckyball Music

April 5, 2010

Marc returns to his own musical vision, combining great jazz-rock with thought-provoking themes such as recent scientific discoveries, climate change and the human condition. Marc takes on the lion's share of the instrumentation, returning to his first love: the drum set- and is joined by long-time collaborators Van Manakas and Leo Traversa. In the early 90's ...

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News: Event

Montclair Women's Big Band to Appear at Freight & Salvage, Berkeley, on Fri. 5/7 in the Band's First Public Appearance of the Year

April 5, 2010

The Montclair Women's Big Band, led by veteran trumpeter Ellen Seeling (and assistant director, saxophonist Jean Fineberg), will fill the stage at Berkeley's Freight & Salvage on Friday, May 7, in the band's first public concert of 2010. For the first time in its 12-year existence, MWBB will perform without a vocalist. Instead, the group will ...

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News: TV / Film

Apps for iPad from Some TV Networks, Not All

April 5, 2010

Television networks are taking sharply different approaches to the iPad. One network, ABC, has readied a fully functional app for the eagerly awaited Apple tablet. Another, NBC, has ditched its plans to stream full television episodes onto the device. From MSNBC.com to People.com, buyers of the iPad will be able to watch plenty of ad-supported video ...

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News: Technology

Hands-on with Apple's iPad

April 5, 2010

Wired.com takes a look at Apple's latest creation, the iPad. Sporting a beautiful, responsive 9.7 inch touchnscreen and a store chock-full of useful apps, the iPad presents a new, intuitive way to consume media. Watch the video while Wired Magazine's editors take the new Apple iPad for spin.

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News: Technology

First Batch of Twitter Apps for iPad Ready to Fly

April 5, 2010

Not surprisingly, Twitter Inc. isn't making an official application for the iPad. You can always pull up Twitter.com in the tablet computer's Safari browser. Instead, the company is relying on its army of third-party developers to dream up the next wave of touchable software, and they're taking the call. Two days before the iPad even hits ...

309

News: Video / DVD

Soul Singer Erykah Badu Strips, Gets Shot, Shocks

April 5, 2010

Soul singer gets shot at site of JFK assassination in new music video. Sex and violence: In pop culture, it's the one-two punch that knocks the wind out of just about everyone. Currently basking in its power is Erykah Badu. The soul singer scored a mother lode of attention (and free publicity) this week with her ...

News: Technology

Doctors Diagnose iPad's Usefulness

April 5, 2010

The scenario sounds straight out of a sci-fi movie -- the doctor pulls out her touch- screen tablet computer from the drawer of instruments. She calls up the patient's chart with a few taps and proceeds to add a note to the page with her latest diagnosis. A visualization pops up, and she flips the screen ...

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News: Technology

Web Site by Stanford Experts Monitors App Security

April 5, 2010

With Apple Inc.'s iPad rolling out this weekend, developers are scrambling to create new applications -- or apps. But are they safe? That's the question a new Web site hopes to help answer. Internet security experts at Stanford University launched a site Friday that reviews how well certain Web and mobile applications protect users' privacy. ...

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News: Radio

Herbie Nichols' Third World: Music and an Interview with Biographer Mark Miller

April 5, 2010

Herbie Nichols was a pianist, composer and intellectual who grew up in the heart of the Harlem Renaissance, an overlooked figure in his lifetime whose music has been celebrated and recorded frequently in the past 25 years, and subject of a new biography, Herbie Nichols: a Jazzist's Life. Author Mark Miller joins Night Lights for a ...