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Xbox 360 Records Its Biggest Year Ever

Published: Tue, 6 Jan 2009, Source: PR Newswire via Yaho

Despite a tough economy, the gaming industry held strong in 2008 and Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system recorded the biggest year in Xbox history, with more consoles, games and online entertainment experiences sold than any previous year.

Microsoft Suing To Recover Merchandise From Woolsworth

Published: Tue, 6 Jan 2009, Source: 1up.com

Former UK retail giant Woolsworth is on its way out of its business, but it still has a whole lots of Xbox 360s and games sitting in its warehouses. And now Microsoft wants it back. The Times UK is reporting that Microsoft is preparing a legal again to reclaim millions of pounds of hardware and software stock being held by Woolsworth's distribution arm Entertainment UK. Although ...

THIRD STREET: Club New York shuts down without notice

Published: Tue, 6 Jan 2009, Source: Niagara Gazette

The largest and most controversial nightclub in the Third Street entertainment district has gone dark.The doors are locked and even the neon sign on the front of the building has disappeared from Club New York.“The weekend before Christmas I think was their last Saturday night,” said Jack Hornung, owner of the Third Street Tap Room. “(The signage and other indicates of activity) all disappeared ...

Los Angeles club Conga Room stages a comeback

Published: Tue, 6 Jan 2009, Source: Reuters

LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - Across the United States, only a handful of small venues are focused on Latin music. The reopening of the Conga Room in Los Angeles gives the genre's acts a glitzy stage within the city's new entertainment complex, L.A. Live.

Independent - January 5, 2009: Artisans invited to free marketing meetings

Published: Tue, 6 Jan 2009, Source: The Gallup Independe

GALLUP — Local artists and artisans are invited to attend free meetings in Gallup, Ramah and Grants to learn about a state sponsored arts and crafts marketing program.

Chinese Physicist: Show Conveys Essence of Chinese Culture

Published: Tue, 6 Jan 2009, Source: The Epoch Times

Dr. Yeh said she was touched by the efforts the DPA artists are making to revive the orthodox Chinese culture.

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Published: Tue, 6 Jan 2009, Source: Linux Devices

FUEL Database on MontaVista Linux Whether building a mobile handset, a car navigation system, a package tracking device, or a home entertainment console, developers need capable software systems, including an operating system, development tools, and supporting libraries, to gain maximum benefit from their hardware platform and to meet aggressive time-to-market goals.

Wiregrass Newsroom: Second Support Rally Scheduled for Country Crossing

Published: Tue, 6 Jan 2009, Source: WSFA 12 Montgomery

By Daniel Curtis - bio | email Dothan, Ala. (WSFA) -- The announcement of Governor Bob Riley's electronic gaming task force could pose a problem for the multimillion dollar entertainment venue Country

PEP : GMA-7 artists support 'Isang Kinabukasan' album

Published: Tue, 6 Jan 2009, Source: GMA News

Isang Kinabukasan is a revenue-raising endeavor to fund the projects of the GMA Kapuso Foundation. Fifty-four Kapuso stars shared their time and effort for this endeavor that has won Best Secular Album and Best Music Video in the recently-concluded Catholic Mass Media Awards.

Now Showing: 9,249 Artists | 52,337 Events

Published: Tue, 6 Jan 2009, Source: POLLSTAR

Closing out today's adventure we have new dates for Bruce Cockburn , Katy Perry , G. Love & Special Sauce and The Bouncing Souls , and links to items about the RIAA, veteran rockers, free & legal music, Stonehenge and iPod-man Steve Jobs.

Lions Gate Buys TV Guide Network From Macrovision (Update1)

Published: Tue, 6 Jan 2009, Source: Bloomberg

Jan. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. agreed to buy TV Guide Network and TVGuide.com from Macrovision Solutions Corp. for 5 million in cash, expanding the independent film studio’s cable television business.

TV on the NET

Published: Tue, 6 Jan 2009, Source: The North Bay Nugget

From celebrity shenanigans to thought-provoking bloggers to monkeys scratching their butts, the Internet is an always-on source of video entertainment. Enlightening, irritating or just plain [...]

AMC Entertainment closes sale of Cinemex

Published: Tue, 6 Jan 2009, Source: The Kansas City Star

AMC Entertainment Inc., the nation's second-largest theater operator, has completed its sale of Mexican subsidiary Grupo Cinemex to conglomerate Entretenimiento GM de Mexico S.A. de C.V.

Entertainment

Published: Tue, 6 Jan 2009, Source: The West Australian

Sex, drugs and violence mark the majority of MySpace postings by 18-year-olds, a US study has found, potentially hurting job prospects and drawing sexual predators.

Entertainment

Published: Tue, 6 Jan 2009, Source: The West Australian

Oprah Winfrey, Tom Hanks and Tom Cruise are among the stars who have sent their condolences to John Travolta and Kelly Preston. The couple have been left devastated following the death of their 16-year-old son Jett, who passed away on Friday, but their friends have been quick to offer support.

MPB Announces Rainbow Contest for Young Writers and Artists

Published: Tue, 6 Jan 2009, Source: Jackson Free Press

[Verbatim from MPB] Kids, get ready to write and draw! Mississippi Public Broadcasting (MPB) invites kindergarten through third graders to participate in the 15th Annual Reading Rainbow Young Writers and Illustrators Contest.

Ticketmaster Entertainment to Present At 2009 Citi Global Entertainment, Media and Telecommunications Conference

Published: Tue, 6 Jan 2009, Source: GlobeNewswire via Ya

WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Jan. 5, 2009 -- Ticketmaster Entertainment, Inc. , a leading diversified live entertainment ticketing and marketing company, today announced Sean Moriarty, president of Ticketmaster Entertainment, and chief executive officer of Ticketmaster, will speak at the 2009 Citi Global Entertainment, Media and Telecommunications Conference.

Priciest concerts: 2008's top 10

Published: Tue, 6 Jan 2009, Source: Entertainment Weekly

By Margeaux Watson Ticketmaster Entertainment finds Madonna had the richest average re-sale at 8; see who else was on the list -- and what would you pay?

Bohemian Berlin's coolest landmark to be sold off to the highest bidder

Published: Tue, 6 Jan 2009, Source: Independent

The building is Berlin's counter- culture temple – a vast graffiti-smeared and bomb-damaged former department store that boasts two bars, a restaurant, cinema, theatre and a warren of dilapidated studios used by a collective of more than a hundred squatter artists and sculptors.

Now Showing: 9,171 Artists | 52,127 Events

Published: Tue, 6 Jan 2009, Source: POLLSTAR

You’ve mastered “Rock Band,” watched all your new Blu Ray discs and used all of the gift cards your grandparents sent you. Now what?

The Show Could Go On

Published: Tue, 6 Jan 2009, Source: FOX 17 Grand Rapids

After last year's success... it has music lovers and artists already lining up to get involved.  But will there be another "Rothbury Music Festival" this summer?  More than 40-thousand people attended the Rothbury Music Festival last July, a three day concert featuring more than 80 acts.  The owners of the festival site, the Double JJ Ranch, filed for bankruptcy last year, owing -million to ...

Persistent Phone Scam Hits the Basin

Published: Tue, 6 Jan 2009, Source: KMID Midland

Scam artists come up with new ways to trick people everyday. More than likely, if the person doesn't fall for it the first time, the crook will move on to the next victim. Typically, when you talk about a person being relentless it's a good thing.

Gossip Guys Have Starlets’ Panting

Published: Tue, 6 Jan 2009, Source: Richmond Times-Dispa

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Behind the scenes at Cirque du Soleil

Published: Tue, 6 Jan 2009, Source: Independent

You have to adjust your sense of scale to appreciate fully the phenomenon of Cirque du Soleil. Its founder, the bald, puckish (and very rich) Guy Laliberté describes it as "the No 1 entertainment company in the world" – a grandiose statement sure to raise the hackles of any Cirque cynic. But then you look at the evidence. Since its humble beginnings as a rag-tag gang of stilt-walkers and ...

440 artists and writers call on MSPs to kill off Creative Scotland

Published: Tue, 6 Jan 2009, Source: The Herald

More than 400 artists, writers, and producers have signed a letter to MSPs urging them to vote down the next attempt to establish Creative Scotland, the merger between the nation's main cultural bodies, the Scottish Arts Council and Scottish Screen.

Portland Music Award nominations out

Published: Tue, 6 Jan 2009, Source: The Oregonian

Stephanie YaoTerry Currier, owner of Music Millennium, who won last year's Pioneer Award. Nominations for the Portland Music Awards are out -- no big surprises, but some good artists nonetheless (Kristina Rae is, I think, an underrated Portland gem). This...

Various Artists - The Complete Motown Singles Vol. 11A: 1971

Published: Mon, 5 Jan 2009, Source: Rolling Stone

Artist: Various Artists Review: Here is Motown in 45 rpm overdrive — 119 tracks from the first half of 1971, as the label branches, often unwisely, into mainstream pop and rock. But there is also a new balance of honed funk and L.A. sparkle — "Nathan Jones" by the post-Diana Ross Supremes, the Undisputed Truth's "Smiling Faces Sometimes" — along with fine sides by Edwin Starr and Eddie ...

Florida Supercon Adds Seven New Guests to June 5-7, 2009 Show

Published: Mon, 5 Jan 2009, Source: Anime News Network

FLORIDA SUPERCON ANNOUNCES SEVEN NEW GUESTS INCLUDING: SUPERSTAR COMIC BOOK ARTISTS MARK BROOKS & DICK GIORDANO, THE VOICES OF CHARLIE BROWN & LUCY and MORE!

Artists spring into action

Published: Mon, 5 Jan 2009, Source: The Star

MALACCA: A group of local artists are not only preserving the art of writing traditional couplets in Chinese calligraphy but are using it to raise funds for the needy this Chinese New Year.

Gossip Guys Have Starlets' Panting

Published: Mon, 5 Jan 2009, Source: E! Online

Hollywood's love for Gossip Girl (all new tonight!) hasn't ever been a secret, but lately Tinseltown's starlets have been seriously loose-lipped about their crushes on Upper East...

Teen profiles on MySpace rife with references to sex, alcohol use and violence

Published: Mon, 5 Jan 2009, Source: The Capital Times

Want to visit the wild Web world of Madison adolescence? Np! (No problem!) Log into MySpace and type in a local zip code. A browse through the web pages and social lives of local teens is a virtual visit to their messy bedrooms -- full of blaring music, colorful posters, gossip, and, in this age of exhibitionism spawned by cellphone cameras, hundreds and hundreds of photos. Only keep scrolling ...

Gossip Guys Have Starlets' Panting

Published: Mon, 5 Jan 2009, Source: E! Online via Yahoo!

Hollywood's love for Gossip Girl (all new tonight!) hasn't ever been a secret, but lately Tinseltown's starlets have been seriously loose-lipped about their crushes on Upper East Siders Chace Crawford, Ed Westwick and Penn Badgley.

Spout Off

Published: Mon, 5 Jan 2009, Source: Cape May County Hera

What a tragedy, I have always admired this couple. Compared to most celebrities this couple seems to have thier shiete together. You dont really hear any gossip or negative press about them, which is rare in the celebrity world.

- Bring on the Bollywood beat is the cry from party people sold on standard starry moves

Published: Mon, 5 Jan 2009, Source: The Telegraph

The year-end parties in town proved once again that even if Calcutta’s swing set likes to flirt with Rihanna or Akon for a track or two, this desi heart belongs to Desi girl.

The Daily Dirt

Published: Mon, 5 Jan 2009, Source: NBC Philadelphia

Your daily dose of celebrity gossip

Twitter Celebs Fall For Widespread Phishing Attack

Published: Mon, 5 Jan 2009, Source: ChannelWeb

The massive phishing attack on Twitter goes after celebrities Britney Spears and President-elect Barack Obama.

Big Celebs Hit By Twitter Phishing Attack

Published: Mon, 5 Jan 2009, Source: WebProNews

Twitter users, take heed: now might be an excellent time to check your Twitter posts for embarrassing messages, and no, we're not talking whatever might have resulted from your New Year's Eve celebrations.  Instead, such messages seem to be the result of a new and almost astonishingly effective phishing scam. read more

How Will the World Keep Turning? [Important News]

Published: Mon, 5 Jan 2009, Source: Gawker

Georgina Sparks returns to Gossip Girl. Plus a spoiler! [EW]

Gossip corner: Sallu keeping tab on Kat

Published: Mon, 5 Jan 2009, Source: Hindustan Times

COMMENT ON THIS ! Your Views! Get your daily dose of gossips with Honey. She writes on the glamour world and the spicy scandals of Bollywood celebs

DWTS' Karina Smirnoff, Maksim Chmerkovskiy Are Engaged!

Published: Mon, 5 Jan 2009, Source: US Weekly

Karina Smirnoff and Maksim Chmerkovskiy are making it official! The Dancing With the Stars pros got engaged on New Year's Day, a source confirms to Usmagazine.com. See which celebs got married in 2008. Chmerkovskiy -- who started a controversy when he named dancers on the ABC show that needed to lose weight -- popped the question to his girlfriend of six months with a Harry Winston ring, ...

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Published: Mon, 5 Jan 2009, Source: Glamsham.com

B-town Celebs like Harbhajan Singh, Geeta Basra, Rohit Roy and many others graced the new club Ice Pub & Mint Bar launch with their presence at Juhu, Mumbai.

Couples Watch: Marc & J.Lo, Nick & Vanessa ...

Published: Mon, 5 Jan 2009, Source: Richmond Times-Dispa

• Never mind the rumors: Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony, cozying up – and sharing a kiss – in Puerto Rico as they attended the Jan. 2 inauguration of the territory’s governor, Luis Fortuno.http://feeds.people.com/~r/people/headlines/~4/503343966

Couples Watch: Marc & J.Lo, Nick & Vanessa ...

Published: Mon, 5 Jan 2009, Source: People Magazine

• Never mind the rumors: Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony, cozying up – and sharing a kiss – in Puerto Rico as they attended the Jan. 2 inauguration of the territory's governor, Luis Fortuno.

Monday's Early Buzz: Kelly Rutherford, Jennifer Lopez, Katy Perry and More

Published: Mon, 5 Jan 2009, Source: Dose

Gossip Girl star Kelly Rutherford has filed for divorce from her husband of two years, just weeks after announcing her pregnancy.

T.I. takes TO at South Beach gig

Published: Mon, 5 Jan 2009, Source: New York Daily News

South Beach was starstruck this past weekend, as celebs invaded the seaside playground.

Whales=Celebs. Us=Paparazzi. Ocean=Hot Club

Published: Mon, 5 Jan 2009, Source: NBC4 Los Angeles

Whale watching season makes camera/binoc-toting fans give chase on the water (and have a fab time doing it...)

It's time to rescue celebs from poor taste

Published: Mon, 5 Jan 2009, Source: Arizona Daily Star

Memo to Brad Pitt: What's up with the porkpie hat and the slacker pants, fella? Are you a movie star or do you work in a record store?

NYC's Doormen: Barbarians at the Gate

Published: Mon, 5 Jan 2009, Source: New York Post

The sight of Steve Rubell standing on a milk crate outside Studio 54, plucking wannabe revelers from a desperate crowd, is as iconic an image of 1970s New York City as the Ramones. Thirty years later, doormen might not be physically elevated, but their status is just as celestial as ever. With gossip columns and blogs breathlessly reporting on where Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson are ...

Jewel thief knew layout of home Paris Hilton's home

Published: Mon, 5 Jan 2009, Source: The Desert Sun

Whoever stole million in jewelry from Paris Hilton's mansion in Mulholland Estates may have been familiar with the heiress' home and knew where to find her rings, watches and necklaces, it was reported today.

Britney Spears - Girlfriend Blasts Britneys New Romance Rumours - With Her Man

Published: Mon, 5 Jan 2009, Source: ContactMusic

Reports of a new BRITNEY SPEARS romance with an Indian choreographer have been dismissed - by the dancer's girlfriend. Spears reportedly spent Christmas (08) in ...