Former Sopranos star engaged? & other: May 2008

Thursday 29 May 2008

KRS One and DJ Premier added to Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival

KRS-One and DJ Premier have been added to the line up for this year�??s Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival which will take place July 10-12.

The acts will join Buckshot on the main day of the event, which will take place at Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park in the New York borough.

Previous acts at the festival have included Brand Nubian, Big Daddy Kane and Ghostface, which this year will run throughout three locations in Brooklyn �?? the Brooklyn Masonic Temple in Greenpoint, The Powerhouse Arena and Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park.

The dates and locations are:

Brooklyn Masonic Temple, Fort Greene (July 10)
The Powerhouse Arena (11)
Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park (12) (Main day)

--By our New York staff.
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Thursday 22 May 2008

Galactic

Artist: Galactic

   Genre(s):
funk
   Acid Jazz

Discography:

We Love 'Em Tonight (Live at Tipitina's)

Year: 2001
Tracks: 13

Late for the Future

Year: 2000
Tracks: 14

The Freshly Orleans-based jazz-funk army corps de ballet Galactic formed in 1994; to commence with an eight-piece, the radical presently pared refine to an instrumental sixsome comprising guitar player Jeff Raines, organist Rich Vogel, bassist Henry Martyn Robert Mercurio, saxophonists Ben Ellman and Jason Mingledorff, and drummer Elizabeth Cady Stanton Moore. Afterwards adding Crescent City music scenery vet Theryl deClouet on vocals, Galactic built a fervent local pursual on the potency of a unappeasable live agenda which included opening slots for grouping heroes including the Meters, Maceo Dorothy Parker and Medeski, Martin & Woodwind. In 1996 the isthmus issued their debut LP, Coolin' Off; upon sign speech to major label Capricorn, they re-released the album deuce eld later, currently followed by the all-new Crazyhorse Mongoose. Since that fourth dimension, they experience got released a smattering of albums including Latterly for the Future in 2000, Rukus in 2003 and From the Corner to the Block in 2007.

Friday 9 May 2008

Johnny Knoxville, Parker Posey join 'Fruitcake'

Johnny Reb Knoxville (left) and Charlie Parker Posey ar attached to

Monday 5 May 2008

Lindsay Lohan to star in Ugly Betty

Lindsay Lohan is beingness lined-up to star in Ugly Betty.
Citing “multiple sources”, TV Guide says the Mean Girls actress is in advanced discussions to guest-star in the show’s Whitethorn 22 season finale, which is currently in production.
As well as a node spot on the final examination episode of season threesome, Betty producers ar too in negotiations with Arhat to appear in up to eighter episodes of the show’s fourth season.

Radiohead Join Forces With MTV's Campaign Against Human Trafficking For 'All I Need' Video

Thom Yorke has ne'er been unity to keep his political views to himself. And when he was contacted by MTV to claim part in a crusade against man trafficking, he decided to run things close to the vest. Because, as he sees it, the subject isn't a political 1 at entirely.
"It's cool that MTV is taking this up, because commonly, this is something I only receive to peach to people about wHO are considered 'extreme left-wing' or whatever, but it's trade good it's hitting the mainstream, because I don't study it a left wing issue; I count it a political-stability military issue," he told MTV UK. "I think if [the campaign] does one goodness affair, it would be to induce this concept of slavery — which is what it is — to a lesser extent taboo. If they potty make it something that is OK for us to mouth about, and for politicians in the West to actually take that this is an emergence, well, then we're doing a good thing."
And so Yorke and the rest of his Radiohead bandmates feature joined forces with MTV Exit (End Victimisation and Trafficking) to produce a music picture for "Completely I Pauperization," a birdcall from their In Rainbows album, which will be air globally on Th in the hopes of lift awareness to the to a greater extent than 2.5 gazillion hands, women and children wHO are forced, defrauded or coerced into various forms of working class or whoredom.
"They've produced a video of deuce parallel of latitude stories run, 1 of a little male child in the West and one of a little boy in a sweatshop in the East, and the male child [in the W] ends up purchasing the shoes from the sweatshop. It's actually quite right," Yorke said. "It's the sort of images I have in my head anyways. Sometimes when you're walking polish High Street and you're looking at the fabulously cheap [sneakers], you sort of think, 'Hmmm, well how did they manage to make that so chintzily?' It sort of reminds me of unity of my preoccupations, so I'm touched that the music goes with that. I think it's great."
The picture — which will debut in the States Th on MTV, MTV2, mtvU, MTV Tr3s, MTV Hits and MTV.com — was filmed in Australia by Oscar-winning camera operator Gospel According to John Seale and director Steve Carl Rogers. Following the clip's debut, fans lav learn an exclusive interview with Yorke on Think.MTV.com.
The time has the potency of existence seen in more than 560 one thousand thousand households worldwide, which is division of the reason Yorke and his bandmates decided to lend their livelihood. To them, the payoff of man trafficking has been kept in the night for far to a fault long.
"It's an interesting thing, because if you are in the Western United States, it's a luxury to be able to babble out around the importance of homo rights for everybody, but notwithstanding in the East, or the poorer countries where slave labor movement is leaving on, if you talk to certain companies, it seems that it's much more important that they're on about sort of economic ladder, and somehow the rights of the workers ar secondary to economic growth," Yorke said. "And that I discover a real peculiar system of logic, and I think that's as much about the power of the companies and the net they're making as it is of any moral position. So it would be useful when the Due west talks about man rights, they really consider countries where, for a set of workers, it's not really on the docket so far."
According to the United Nations' International Toil Organization, more than 12 zillion people worldwide are trapped in forced proletariat, and some 2.5 trillion people ar victims of human being trafficking. The sale of homo beings — for sweatshop labor, prostitution, domestic help labour Party and commercial message marriages — is the one-third to the highest degree lucrative illicit business in the macrocosm, after only blazonry and drug trafficking. The industry generates an estimated $7 1000000000000 to $12 million per annum.
Spell Yorke knows that a single video can't stem the tide, he hopes that the "Whole I Motive" clipping toilet be a beginning step in ushering in global change. And he's non stopping in that respect, either. At for each one stop on Radiohead's upcoming North American, European and Asiatic tours, early days activists belonging to anti-human-trafficking organizations will be on hand to distribute information.
"I think it's important for everyone in the West or on High Street to infer the consequences of our economic body process. You must be aware of the floor of exploitation that's expiration on," Yorke said. "It's voice of our Horse opera life, and one we should accept province for. There's no such thing as a free lunch or a free just the ticket to another res publica."

Swingers stars are teaming up again

'Swingers' stars Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau ar to reunite on the big screen once once more for a freshly comedy called 'Four Christmases'.
Diverseness reports that the movie follows the calamities which bechance newlyweds Brad (Vaughn) and Kate (Reese John Witherspoon) as they inspect their different sets of parents.
Favreau and Tim John McGraw will play Brad's intimidation brothers, Dallas and Mile-High City.
Vaughn and Favreau too starred together in 'The Break-Up' and 'Made'.
Witherspoon and Vaughn are likewise producing the new movie.

McGregor and Carrey to play lovers

Ewan McGregor is to star contrary Jim Carrey in a fresh iniquity clowning called 'I Love You Phillip Morris'.
Variety reports that the photographic film simon Marks the directorial debut of 'Bad Santa' screenwriters John Glenn Ficarra and Whoremaster Requa.
Based on real events, the photographic film tells the story of a hustle creative person (Carrey) wHO felled seam in love with his cellmate (McGregor) patch in slammer in TX and escaped on four-spot part occasions.
He is presently serving a 144-year time.
Output on the film will begin in the natural spring.

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