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Mall kicks off fourth annual BHCP Live! Series with well-known bands and Playboy Jazz Festival collaboration LOS ANGELES, May 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Returning for its fourth year to the outdoor promenade at Baldwin Hills Crenshaw, the BHCP Live! summer concert series will kick off on Sunday, May 26. The concerts, free of charge and open to the entire community, will continue throughout the summer months with a final performance on Sunday, August 25. R&B band Loose Ends...
Editorial team recognized for real-time neighborhood news reporting during storm NEW YORK, May 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- DNAinfo.com New York, NYC's leading neighborhood news source, congratulates its reporting team for winning a 2013 Silurians Excellence in Journalism Award for Hurricane Sandy coverage in the online breaking news category. In addition, Criminal Justice Editor Murray Weiss won a Silurians merit award for his coverage of the New York Police Department's stop and frisk...
LOS ANGELES, May 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- "Fast & Furious 6" and "The Hangover, Part III" will be battling it out for moviegoer attention this Memorial Day Weekend, according to Fandango, the nation's leading moviegoer destination. The company released this week's Fanticipation results, which charts movie fan sentiment around the weekend box office line-up, showing Fast & Furious 6" (with a score of 95) surging ahead of "The Hangover Part III" (with a score of 92)....
TORONTO, May 23, 2013 /CNW/ - Everywhere Dennis Rodman goes there's some sort of spectacle. This Saturday will be no different as the headline-grabbing basketball hall-of-famer and star of Celebrity Apprentice celebrates his birthday at MUZIK. Doors open at 9:30 pm. @DennisRodman: "My birthday party tour continues in Toronto @muzikclubs. Be there on May 25." Notorious for his ongoing media antics, Rodman is no stranger to speaking his mind and being "as be as he wants to be"....
NEW YORK, May 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Caroline has signed an exclusive agreement with noted independent label ATO Records in which Caroline will provide distribution services for all of ATO's releases. The first release under the new agreement will be the forthcoming album from Gypsy punk band Gogol Bordello on July 23, with albums coming later this year from rock'n'roll band J. Roddy Walston and The Business, plus several more exciting new releases to be announced shortly....
LOS ANGELES, May 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Massive Enterprises and Kalm Kaoz recently announced plans to form a strategic partnership with One World Media Group to bring electronic dance music to the Asian market via Internet Radio. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130423/PH99508 ) Under this agreement, Massive Enterprises' record label, Massive Decks Recordings and its producer/DJ electro band, Kalm Kaoz, will work with One World Media to deliver original content via...
NEW YORK, May 23, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Music Empowers Foundation is proud to announce a $20,000 grant to the Neighborhood Studios of Fairfield County. Neighborhood Studios is a multi-disciplinary school of the arts in Bridgeport, CT. Founded in 1977, it provides music and arts education to over 1,500 talented but economically disadvantaged and special needs children. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130523/DC20056) The Music Empowers grant will be used to...
VALLEJO, Calif., May 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- With remarkable ease and precision, the uniquely skilled artists, aerialists and acrobats of Cirque Dreams take the Dolphin Harbor Theater stage in an all-new aquatic production that combines unbelievable feats of strength with the graceful leaps and bows of bottlenose dolphins. Cirque Dreams Splashtastic - the Most Amazing Show Above H(2)O, premiers today and officially opens to the public Saturday, May 25 in a limited run engagement, a...
Wiegand pens guide for transformation in readers' hearts and use of resources MAITLAND, Fla., May 23, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- According to author, Phil Wiegand, people's time, talent and treasure (finances) are being consumed either by temporary pursuits that perish in time, or by pursuits that, according to the Bible, have eternal value. Phil Wiegand's new book, KingdomNomics: Enjoy A Life That Will Echo Into Eternity ($13.99, paperback, 978-1-62509-866-5; $22.99, hardcover,...
New Series Includes Recordings of Landmark Works by Stravinsky, Debussy, Berio, Carter, Stockhausen and More, Many Available Now Digitally for the First Time NEW YORK, May 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- It's been a century since Igor Stravinksy's The Rite of Spring ushered in an age of radical musical transformation that changed the face of music. A succession of great twentieth century composers went on to create music that transcended tradition and moved the art form in a direction...
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The Cybook Gen3 is an e-Reader designed for reading e-books, e-news, and for listening to audio books or MP3 music. It was produced by Bookeen, a French company, and released on October 29, 2007. The display is a six-inch E-Ink screen using 166 dpi, black and white, 2-bit grayscale and on the gold edition 8-bit grayscale was used. The screen is readable under sunlight and only uses the battery for turning pages, giving it 8,000 page flips of battery life. The Gen3 uses a 200MHz CPU;...
The Kindle Fire HD is the second generation of Amazon’s Kindle Fire. It comes in three versions, the 7 inch, and the 8.9 inch touch screens, and a 4G version. They were released on September 14, 2012 in the 7-inch, November 16, 2012 in the 8.9-inch, and a 8.9-inch 4G enabled version released on November 18, 2012. The 7-inch and the 8.9-inch have 16 GB or 32 GB of internal storage and the 8.9-inch 4G LTE has 32 GB or 64 GB of storage. It has a front facing camera for photo capture, and...
Image Credit: Photos.com A podcast is digital media in a series of related content that is downloaded by a subscription through web syndication or streamed online onto either a computer or mobile device. The word podcast was derived from the terms “broadcast” and “pod,” by the success of the iPod. Most podcasts are streamed or downloaded onto mobile devices such as smartphones and the iPod. The podcast is media transferred to a user’s device, similar to a radio or TV broadcast....
Image Caption: This icon, known as the "feed icon" or the "RSS icon", was introduced in Mozilla Firefox in order to indicate a web feed was present on a particular web page that could be used in conjunction with the Live bookmarks function. Microsoft Internet Explorer, Opera and some other browsers have adopted the icon in order to promote a de facto standard. Credit: Mozilla/Wikipedia A web feed is a data format that provides the user with regularly updated content. It is also...
Image Credit: Photos.com A blog is a written discussion or information posted on a website over the Internet. The blog is posted with the most recent one first, dealing with any subject or topic within the constraints of the website administrator. Before 2009 most blogs were written by an individual or small group of people. Today, most websites use multi-author blogs (MABs) where a large number of authors write and submit content which is edited professionally. Information gathered for...
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