The Akron-Summit County Public Library will host a premiere of Phil Hoffman’s new rockumentary If You’re Not Dead, Play!!, on Wednesday, Sept. 21, at 7 p.m. in the Main Library Auditorium in downtown Akron. Two of the bands featured prominently in the film, Akron’s Unit 5 and Chi-Pig, will prove …
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Zellweger and Chesney Speak Out on Annulment
We reported yesterday that Oscar-winning actress Renee Zellweger (can’t believe she didn’t change her name when she got to Hollywood – Louis B. Mayer would have never stood for it!) was seeking an annulment of her four-month marriage (after a four-month courtship) to country singer Kenny Chesney, listing “fraud” in …
Read More »Courtney Love Avoids Jail (Again Again … Again …)
Courtney Love, 41, has once again slithered through the jailhouse bars (although this time it took a full tub of Crisco – note pic). She was sentenced Friday to six months in a rehab center for slipping off the druggy wagon while on probation for previous drug offenses and going …
Read More »Napster On Campus
Being a mega-busy media mogul perched in front of a computer at least 12 hours a day, not having the brainpower sufficient to concentrate on writing-editing-logistics-managing-marketing-and the like WHILE also listening to music, AND sitting on top of 25,000 or so CDs that just keep on trickling in day after …
Read More »Zellweger-Chesney Marriage: Just Kidding
The viability of the marriage of inflatable actress Renee Zellweger, 36, to country music star Kenny Chesney, 37, seemed somewhat improbable, with the couple tying the knot on a Virgin Islands beach in May, having met at the Concert of Hope tsunami relief benefit in January where Chesney — named …
Read More »Bush Rallies for Katrina – Energy Policy Next?
President Bush did an impressive job last night of laying out a sweeping vision for the rebuild of the Gulf Coast, offering a “pledge” to the American people that the federal government will “do what it takes, we will stay as long as it takes, to help citizens rebuild their …
Read More »Good News-Bad News For TiVo
You have to feel for TiVo, who, after pioneering the concept and inventing the DVR and fighting a rear-guard action against video content providers, who claimed the very act of digitally recording TV and movie content for the purpose of time-shifted and advertisement-cleansed viewing was worse than a Mann Act …
Read More »Bush Speech May Define Second Term
Tomorrow night from Louisiana, on his fourth trip to Katrina-land, President Bush will address the nation on the great storm, the clean-up, and his “vision for the future.” The ugliest aspects of Katrina’s devastation — that the nation (which ultimately means the federal government) failed the predominantly poor and black …
Read More »Hilton Hacking Techno Teen Sentenced
No, it wasn’t Nicole Richie who hacked Paris Hilton’s Sidekick — the snooty phone-organizer-camera device that stores videos, photos and other data on T-Mobile’s central computer servers — and posted her revealing photos and celebrity phone numbers on the Internet. The culprit wasn’t Hilton’s estranged best pal and co-star of …
Read More »Future of Music Coalition Policy Summit, Sept 11-13
This is big time stuff: the Future of Music Policy Summit, now in its fifth year, brings top-notch experts together with musicians, attorneys, advocates and policymakers to explore emerging music/technology issues through panels, guest speakers and robust debate, September 11-13 at George Washington University in Washington, DC. Over the course …
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