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This week: Ice Cube, Detroit Rocks the Vote
Tonight, about a dozen aspiring comedians will get their shot at making you laugh at Joey's Comedy Club as they host open-mic night. The event starts at 8 p.m., upstairs at the Kicker's "Total Entertainment Complex."
Detroit Free Press |
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Best Buy to buy Napster for $121 million
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Best Buy Co Inc plans to buy digital music service Napster Inc for $121 million in cash in an effort to compete with Apple's dominant iTunes service and its iPod music players.
Yahoo! Asia News |
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Matthew McConaughey grows up … kind of
Matthew McConaughey is neither dazed nor confused. Despite a public perception that he mirrors his breakthrough role as an irresponsible and undisciplined stoner in the 1993 Richard Linklater film "Dazed and Confused," McConaughey is showing definite signs of ... gulp ... maturity. At 38, he recently had a child with girlfriend Camila Alves, runs a film, music and merchandising company out of a ...
The Charlotte Observer |
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The Staglin Family Announce Largest Ever Grant for Research in Prevention of Mental Disorders at 14th Annual Festival ...
The 14th Annual Staglin Family Music Festival for Mental Health raised approximately $3 million at its September 13 event to help support pioneering mental health research. Co-hosts Shari and Garen Staglin announced that scientists who have been conducting research with seed funding from previous festival earnings were recently awarded a $21 million grant by the National Institute of Mental ...
Centre Daily Times |
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MySpace Music to Start with Major Ad Sponsors
News Corp's MySpace, the world's largest social networking site, said on Sunday its long-expected MySpace Music joint venture with three major music labels will launch with four major sponsors underwriting the costs of streaming free music to millions of MySpace users.
PC Magazine |
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Best Buy Bails Out Failing Napster
Amid the chaos on Wall Street this morning, another, much smaller bailout was announced: Best Buy is buying Napster, the second-place music subscription service, which has been losing money and subscribers.
New York Times |
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Milpitas Alliance for the Arts hosts mystery dinner
Once again it's time to take advantage of the semi-annual opportunity to enjoy dinner, solve a mystery, and along the way engage in a major fundraiser supporting the Milpitas High School music program.
The Milpitas Post |
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Best Buy to buy Napster for $121 million
Consumer electronics retailer Best Buy Co. Inc said on Monday it plans to buy digital music service Napster Inc for $121 million in cash.
Canada.com |
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Best Buy to Buy Napster for $127 Million
Best Buy is buying Napster, the music-sharing service, for about $127 million in cash. Best Buy will begin a tender offer for all outstanding Napster shares for $2.65 per share, representing a 95 percent premium to the stock's closing price Friday of $1.36 per share.
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Matthew McConaughey grows up … kind of
By BARRY KOLTNOW Matthew McConaughey is neither dazed nor confused. Despite a public perception that he mirrors his breakthrough role as an irresponsible and undisciplined stoner in the 1993 Richard Linklater film "Dazed and Confused," McConaughey is showing definite signs of ... gulp ... maturity. At 38, he recently had a child with girlfriend Camila Alves, runs a film, music and merchandising ...
Fort Worth Star-Telegram |
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Retailer Best Buy to buy Napster
The electronics giant wants to get established in the online music industry.
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Best Buy will acquire Napster
NEW YORK -- Consumer electronics retailer Best Buy Inc. said today it will acquire online music-sharing site Napster Inc. for about $126.8 million in cash in a move to boost its digital media capabilities. Best Buy will begin a tende
Post-Bulletin |
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Best Buy will acquire music-sharer Napster
Consumer electronics retailer Best Buy Inc. said Monday it will acquire online music-sharing site Napster Inc. for about $126.8 million in cash in a move to boost its digital media capabilities.
New York Daily News |
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Record labels placing big bets on MySpace Music
MySpace Music may be the labels' last hope. The new venture is expected to formally launch within days. Read More...
Ars Technica |
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Electronics retailer Best Buy will acquire Napster
NEW YORK -- Consumer electronics retailer Best Buy Inc. said Monday it will acquire online music-sharing site Napster Inc. for about US$126.8 million in cash in a move to boost its digital media capabilities.
CTV.ca |
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Annual Beaux Arts Ball honors Jim and Edna Gilman for service to community
Guests at the 2008 Beaux Arts Ball, with its theme “Rendezvous on the Orient Express,” applauded the service of honorary chairpersons Jim and Edna Gilman, dined on braised beef and danced Saturday night away. Another highlight of the sophisticated soiree was the performance of a young talent on the saxophone, Jason Whitmore of Wichita, a member of the Cool Blue orchestra. Whitmore ...
The Dodge City Daily Globe |
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Best Buy Purchases Napster for $121 Million
Best Buy is reportedly keeping Napster's Los Angeles staff and CEO Chris Gorog as well. The last time Best Buy made a major investment into the music business, it didn't go so well. "Its $700 million purchase of Musicland/Sam Goody stores in 2000, timed just as the music retail business began an 8-year-slide," the Silicon Alley Insider reported . But how well are digital music subscription ...
LAist |
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Netbytes: Passionato woos classical music fans
Launching a classical music download store is a very brave, or perhaps foolhardy, thing to do. While kids shell out loadsamoney for ringtones, classical music buyers tend to be pernickety about recordings, and careful with their money, as Passionato may soon discover. Passionato is a straightforward site offering classical music albums at decent quality but not at low prices. Typically, ...
Guardian Unlimited |
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Best Buy to buy Napster for $121 million
Best Buy Co Inc plans to buy digital music service Napster Inc for $121 million in cash in an effort to compete with Apple's dominant iTunes service and its iPod music players.
Reuters via Yahoo! Canada News |
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'How I Met Your Mother' Can't Get Enough of Britney Spears
The third season of CBS’ How I Met Your Mother was spiced up by none other than pop princes Britney Spears, who is slowly but surely getting her groove back by recently landing three awards including Video of the Year in the recently concluded MTV Video Music Awards. The 26-year-old performer previously guest starred on How I Met Your Mother as receptionist Abby, in one of the show’s ...
BuddyTV |
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Salam Toronto Talks to Organizers of Anti-Discrimination Petition
This past March, Malahat Fardadi's parents were denied a visitor's visa to Canada from their native Iran, despite being issued a visa just four years prior. Fardadi, as a resident of Toronto for over eight years and a Canadian citizen, became frustrated and angry. She then decided she had to do something about it. -Azim Ahmed
Payvand Iran News |
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Bennett leaves heart at stellar show
Musician Tony Bennett reaffirms his place as one of the greatest balladeers within the jazz-pop tradition.
Prairie Public Broadcasting |
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Motorhead concert rescheduled
Motorhead, whose show Sunday evening in the Newport Music Hall didn't go on because of the storm, has rescheduled for tonight. Arrive early because Motorhead's tour manager says the hard-rock band will begin at 7:30 p.m., with the Episodes, Year Long Disaster and Valient Thorr to play first.
The Columbus Dispatch |
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Rules of 'Grammar' have changed for Nelly
Nelly is never going to have another "Country Grammar." He knows it, and he's OK with that as he stares down the Tuesday release of his latest CD, "Brass Knuckles."
St. Louis Post-Dispatch |
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Recital to benefit disaster relief
Sar-Shalom Strong, who teaches piano at Hamilton College, will present a free recital to benefit victims of the May 2008 earthquake in China.
The Observer-Dispatch |
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