The News Review:
- A moment with … Rodrigo y Gabriela guitarists
- Local News | News for Charlotte North Carolina | WCNC.com | North…
- Station WJEJ Staub turning 75
- MILL CREEK METRPARKS November calendar
- Peter Meehan for The New York Times
- LGE Shine Gets a Taste of ‘Black Magic’
- Bare necessities
A moment with … Rodrigo y Gabriela guitarists
Seattle Post Intelligencer – Oct 28, 2007
Rodrigo y Gabriela guitaristsGuitarists Rodrigo Sanchez and Gabriela Quintero met in Mexico City while playing in a thrash-metal band called Tiera Acida (Sour Earth). Today “acoustic metal guitar” duo Rodrigo y Gabriela is making waves in the U. by blending American heavy metal with Latin rhythms. The duo was dubbed a “New Artist To Watch” by Rolling Stone magazine and received an MTV “Left Field” Woodie Award nomination for its genre-bending style (the awards show airs Nov… We didn’t have any plans or expectations. n Dublin’s influence on the duo’s music:When we went to Ireland we saw young people playing Irish traditional music so it kind of gave us a reason to start playing Latin rhythms. It kind of gave us the chance to find our own music.
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WCNC – WCNC (subscription) – Oct 28, 2007
The events were started earlier this year by Wilmington resident Robbie Herring a lover of flat top mountain music. Herring wanted to find a place where people could bring their banjos tambourines fiddles guitars and mandolins and play bluegrass country or gospel music to their heart’s content. He wanted people in the community to come hear the music for free. And he wanted to make sure no one went hungry doing it. “I feel like this is my house and I wouldn’t charge you for a cup of coffee and a piece of pie at my house” he said adding that a former schoolhouse seemed the perfect place to have a wholesome gathering. Herring started out by calling a few friends he knew who had bands or could play. Now he gets five or six calls a week from musicians all over the region asking if they can come and the gatherings average about 110 people… The music echoes around the schoolhouse with its original beadboard walls and wooden floors sanded so thin they can’t be sanded again. The rest rooms have the original high wooden stalls. And a heavy metal fire door inset into a center wall still stands ready to thwart a spreading fire so visitors can escape from both ends of the building. At the opposite end of the building from the performances is a practice room for musicians wishing to form a jam band to perform on stage. In the practice room Etheridge Hewett of Bolivia effortlessly plays his mandolin with a new band. “Every bluegrass picker loves to get together and pick. I’ve just got friends out here that I pick with” he says.
Station WJEJ Staub turning 75
Hagerstown Morning Herald – Oct 28, 2007
So early programming had to be live and WJEJ’s first announcer Earl Mentzer who came to be known as “Earl the Early Bird” had to be able to sing as well Staub said. Mentzer who was 74 in 1982 when the station celebrated its 50th anniversary recalled in an interview then that the live format made creativity a must. To create sounds for on-air skits cellophane from a cigarette pack was crumpled to mimic a crackling fire or sheet metal was flexed for the noise of a thunderstorm. Staub said that Mentzer who has since died began a Smile Club based on his use of “A Smile Goes a Long Long Way” as his morning show’s theme song. In all 10000 listeners joined the first year. He gave it a tryStaub came to radio after a short time of working for the BF Goodrich rubber company in Waynesboro Va. The manager of radio station WAYB there used to come around for advertising and one day he told the young Staub about an opening for a nighttime DJ “and he said ‘Why don’t you try it John?’”Staub did and liked it… Now you just cut it out by computer. It’s just done on a screen with a squiggly little line on it. “And now WJEJ has a music library of “somewhere around 8000 songs that we can call up at any given time and it’s all stored in a computer” he said. These days too the station broadcasts 24 hours a day seven days a week. n its first day in 1932 the broadcast lasted only a few hours. The early broadcasts were intermittent – the transmitter was turned on or off as WJEJ had something to say. Nowadays some radio stations are making use of the Internet putting their programming on the Web Staub said.
MILL CREEK METRPARKS November calendar
Youngstown Vindicator – Oct 28, 2007
Have fun and move to the music through a variety of exercises designed to increase muscular strength range of movement and activity for daily living skills. Hand-held weights elastic tubing with handles and a ball are offered for resistance. Held in classroom A at the MetroParks Farm… A faux bronze patina will be painted on the vase at the second session. Beads and raffia or leather cord will embellish the work. The vase will look like metal when completed. Call (330) 740-7116 to register. Fee: $39 ($30 FFRG members).
Peter Meehan for The New York Times
New York Times – Oct 28, 2007
Meals begin at 500 Jamaican dollars plus drinks. Housed under corrugated metal on a thin slice of beach just off the main road (A4) the restaurant serves Rastafarian Jamaican dinners: four or five vegetable preparations (callaloo water spinach saut? with garlic and onions is a staple) are partnered with rice and peas for just 1000 Jamaican dollars. Free BeachesMost of the beaches near Port Antonio are free tucked into breaks along the rocky coastline between town and Boston Bay to the east. (Frenchman’s Cove which charges a 300 Jamaican dollar entrance and offers chair rentals and waiter service is an exception that’s worth the small fee. The beach is dotted with several colorful beach shacks should you need a Red Stripe (about 100 Jamaican dollars) to cool you off from the sun… The beach is dotted with several colorful beach shacks should you need a Red Stripe (about 100 Jamaican dollars) to cool you off from the sun. Where to PartySmall bars abound in Port Antonio mostly modest affairs geared toward locals. West Street in the center of town is home to a couple of clubs that play reggae soca and dancehall.
LGE Shine Gets a Taste of ‘Black Magic’
Al-Bawaba – Oct 28, 2007
Edgier than black and more chic than silver LG Shine ‘Titanium Black’ combines the best of both looks and will allow both men and women to shine. Those who loved LG Shine the first time around will be keen to get their hands on this new addition to the range confirming LG as style leaders. A fully metal-bodied super-slim handset the LG Shine was launched in the Middle East in April this year by well-known singer Nawal Zoghbi who is also the brand ambassador with the phone. The sleek design of the LG Shine defies its high-tech functionality which includes a 2 mega-pixel camera by Schneider Kreuznach. Access to LG Shine’s menu system is by an easy-to-use multi-function scroll wheel and on board software includes a comprehensive music player (with MP3 WAV and AAC++) GPRS and EDGE network compatibility and Bluetooth. Kevin Cha General Manager of the LGE Amman Branch said “We at LGE look forward to seeing the LGE Shine ‘Titanium Black’ in high demand in Jordan as members of the Jordanian community always seek what is new and innovative within the mobile handset industry… A fully metal-bodied super-slim handset the LG Shine was launched in the Middle East in April this year by well-known singer Nawal Zoghbi who is also the brand ambassador with the phone. The sleek design of the LG Shine defies its high-tech functionality which includes a 2 mega-pixel camera by Schneider Kreuznach. Access to LG Shine’s menu system is by an easy-to-use multi-function scroll wheel and on board software includes a comprehensive music player (with MP3 WAV and AAC++) GPRS and EDGE network compatibility and Bluetooth. Kevin Cha General Manager of the LGE Amman Branch said “We at LGE look forward to seeing the LGE Shine ‘Titanium Black’ in high demand in Jordan as members of the Jordanian community always seek what is new and innovative within the mobile handset industry. The launch of this phone falls directly inline with our strategy for introducing to members of the Jordanian community a cost effective innovative and technologically advanced product range. We at the company are proud of the high demand seen on our products within the communities we operate within and we look forward to more advancement in our regional market shares in the near future”From his end Mr.
Bare necessities
Malaysia Star – Oct 28, 2007
intimate preparations. As the designer tightens the laces on Soo’s corset I have to suppress all other thoughts save the intellectual ones. “They even made corsets out of metal those days. Some women died wearing them” Looi notes. Ah such are the injustices suffered for the fickle male gaze… “I’m a mother I want to bring my young daughter to watch the show as well. ” Indeed any slinky seduction will occur in an overall “fun” atmosphere which will be reflected in 1980s and 90s pop music reupholstered in a 1950s cabaret tone. Penny Low the music director says she has “tweaked in” bits of rhumba cha-cha tap and even P. Ramlee into the score. Numbers by that sultry icon Madonna Like a Virgin Material Girl and Vogue will be presented in swing and honky-tonk style while songs like Beautiful Girls (Sean Kingston) and I Will Survive (Gloria Gaynor) should add some pathos. And of course there will be the eponymous Rose Rose I Love You (Yao Lee) done in both Mandarin and English. “Some songs will be spliced together.