The Big Interview: Lennox Lewis

Times Online - I boogie, I move my head in time with the music and that’s it. But I’m trying to come out of myself a little bit more because people only know the boxer, they don’t know the person and my life has moved on since I retired from the boxing ring.

The grandparents are out
Philadelphia Daily News - Mitchell, 55, coordinates the calendar for Amazon Country, a women's-music show on WXPN. Each month, members of the Lesbian Group of Montgomery County fill her Juniata living room for Rocky Horror theme parties or competitive puzzle-making nights. Her

Captain Picard returns to his acting roots
San Francisco Gate - Now scheduled to open in February at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Harvey Theater, the production inspired several British newspaper critics to pronounce it the "Macbeth" of a lifetime, the best they have ever seen. (And they see a lot of

Choreographing circus a real juggling act
CNN - This carefully choreographed chaos, accompanied by uproarious music, is crammed into the opening minutes of the venerable Greatest Show on Earth, the 138th incarnation of which will be playing to around 5 million people in 84 U.S. cities during the

Merged Yahoo-Microsoft would have much overlap
San Francisco Gate - Windows Live Messenger) and music (Yahoo Music vs. MSN Music). Juha Christensen, a former Microsoft executive, said the best solution would be to retain virtually all of the properties as is, even if they compete with one another. Only the underlying

Knussen's meticulous, luminous classical music has a sound all its own
Detroit Free Press - Nothing about the British composer and conductor Oliver Knussen is off-the-rack. Not his famous debut at age 15 in 1968, when he conducted his First Symphony with the London Symphony. Not his grizzly bear girth and lumberjack beard that cut an

From the heart
Boston Globe - Forman, who is self-taught in piano and electric bass, hopes to attend music school next year. Other Massachusetts students selected for the 2008 Gibson/Baldwin Grammy Jazz Ensembles are Brookline High School student Grace Kelly , who plays alto

A Reporter Finds Drama in Iraqis’ Heartbreak
New York Times - Adnan, a devotee of American films and American music, a university graduate who sold cigarettes during Saddam’s time, had dreamed of the day: “There was always, always this sound in the back of my head: The time will come, the time will come

Booze, skimpy ensembles keep Carnival jumping all night
CNN - And in the city of Salvador, revelers danced behind bands playing Axe music atop huge sound trucks, and followed hundreds of exotically costumed drummers in Blocos Afros down the streets. Two girls -- ages 16 and 7 -- were killed early Sunday and 12

Musician “Retro Petro” at Irondequoit library
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle - (February 3, 2008) — Musician Steve Petrocitch “Retro Petro” will be performing popular music at the Pauline Evans Branch Library at 45 Cooper Road. Petrocitch will bring a guitar and drums and play music from the ’50s, ’60s, and ’70s at

Globe South Best Bets
Boston Globe - Hingham: A candlelight concert series at Hingham's historic Old Ship Church opens its 35th year of performances with a concert of Chinese orchestral music by musicians from the Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts at 4 p.m. today in the

Putting Candidates' Religion to the Test
ABC News - You can also envisage appropriate graphics and theme music proclaiming, "Free Thinkers Debate 2008." A moderator would note the importance of the elections on Super Tuesday and, given the evening's topic, might even mention that the name of the day

HATE MUSICALS? TRY THESE
San Francisco Gate - The films listed below have a rebel streak - whether it's comedic, dealing with a ground-breaking form of music or performed entirely with puppets. Below are my eight favorite musicals for people who hate musicals. ("Across the Universe" wasn't

Musical celtic relatives
Boston Globe - He released his first album in 1982 and in 1991 won a Boston Music Award as Outstanding Celtic Act. In 1992, he performed at Carnegie Hall in New York with The Clancy Brothers. He is known for his emotionally powerful - and often funny - songs.

A steak, some wine, music . . . la vida dulce
Boston Globe - My seatmate on the flight from Miami was hungry - and the airline meal was not going to cut it. Damián Edelberg was returning home to Buenos Aires from a business trip to Boston, and he was craving thick-crust pizza, slabs of almost impossibly

Italian music tour could end travel ban
MSNBC - TRUMBULL — As he rehearses music with the Trumbull High School Choir in recent weeks, A.J. Cusello has been paying special note to those in Italian. "We've been working on language and pronunciation so we like don't say it wrong," the senior said

Van Hunt faces uneasy truths in his music and with record label
Chicago Tribune - Over three albums, Van Hunt has evolved from a hired gun to a funky eccentric with a penchant for upsetting expectations. But fans may have to wait awhile before they can fully appreciate that transformation. Hunt's latest album, "Popular," was set

Top 20 sites for free music
News.com.au - PERHAPS you found a gift-wrapped MP3 player under the Christmas tree this year, or maybe you invested hard-earned dollars on the very best iPod you could afford. However you received your digital jukebox, it will be no good to you unless you pack it

What Stefan Sagmeister has learned in his life so far
International Herald Tribune - His teenage love of The Ramones' music and Jamie Reid's Sex Pistols graphics was undoubtedly an influence, but his zest for the impromptu began much earlier, when he was growing up in the Austrian city of Bregenz surrounded by the wooden signs

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Newsday - BOMB THE MUSIC INDUSTRY! Sounds interesting. With The Watergate Brigade, The Homecoming Queens and more. (4 p.m. Sunday, Vibe Lounge, 60-B N. Park Ave., Rockville Centre, 516-208-6590. $10.) A FAREWELL FIRE. Farewell fire? Hello, metal! (6 p.m. Sunday

Not just party animals? Go figure
Boston Globe - Rap music blasted in the background, and friends mingled, drinking hot chocolate. Every other week, Keep Allston Decent meets on the corner of Ashford and Chester streets to pick up debris that collects on the streets of their Allston neighborhood

Music Entertainment Technology Gaming pop culture with substance
andPOP - Newton Faulkner is a 22 year old English singer songwriter with a wistful smile and phenomenal dreadlocks. But you’ll already know him as one of 2007’s most striking musical arrivals, clocking up a Number One platinum album, sell-out UK tours and

Bombers had Down syndrome, Iraqi military says
Globe and Mail - I would say the threats are two-way; the youth in Iran are secretly downloading music videos from MTV. Although not for a couple of days now, since three internet cable have been cut-off to the Middle East. LOL. Shall I assume you are Shia and believe

11-year-old leads his church's music ministry
El Paso Times - BEAUMONT, Texas—Prodded by his mother on a recent Sunday, De'Andre Nico walked over to a woman to sing her a soulful "Happy Birthday." Diners at Ryan's Family Steakhouse in Beaumont strained their necks to look at the man-child. About 20 left their

Music biz ponders Amy's plight
Detroit Free Press - When "Back to Black" arrived 10 months ago, critics and fans hailed Amy Winehouse as the future of soul music. Now they wonder whether she has a future. The album generated six Grammy nominations for the eyelinered, tattooed R&B sensation. But her

US rivals try to woo youth vote
BBC Americas - Four US presidential hopefuls - two Democrats and two Republicans - have taken part in an event aimed at young voters, presented on TV and online. The live forum was aired on the music channel MTV as well as on more than 1,800 websites and radio

Source: Breakthrough in Writers Talks
Los Angeles Times - It has since decided to allow the music ceremony to proceed with full union support. However, the fate of the Feb. 24 Academy Awards has remained in question, with the guild so far declining to grant its blessing to the show. A union refusal to

Pirate Bay defiant despite criminal charges
International Herald Tribune - LONDON : As Swedish prosecutors fixed their sights last week on The Pirate Bay, an Internet file-sharing service that is a scourge of the movie and music industries, the operators of the site responded by hoisting a defiant, digital Jolly Roger. The

Lunar New Year: The Year of the Rat
San Francisco Gate - It starts with all the holiday music you hear blaring out so loud in the shops in Chinatown," says Eng of songs like "Gung Hay Fat Choy" and "Choy Sun Doe" that have the same cozy effect for them as "Jingle Bells" or "Auld Lang Syne" may have for

Music at the movies for rock-heavy Berlin festival
Washington Post - Resize Text BERLIN (Reuters) - Music comes to the movies at the Berlin Film Festival this year, with the Rolling Stones and Madonna expected on the red carpet and a heavy metal band from Baghdad banging heads on the big screen. In between songs at

Singer-violinist Iva Bittová's unique music
San Francisco Gate - Stepping down from the stage and into the audience at the Noe Valley Ministry in San Francisco in November, Iva Bittová challenged the commonplace definition of singing by squeezing her voice up into animalistic yelps and forcing it down into moans

Two Hollywood story lines inspire a little traveling music
Philadelphia Inquirer - HOLLYWOOD - Screenwriter Justin Zackham admits he put a bit of his own travel ambition into The Bucket List . "The truth is that the locations in the film - the pyramids, the Taj Mahal, Everest, and the Great Wall of China - are all destinations on

Longoria Parker Eyes Music Career
Teen Music - Desperate Housewives star Eva Longoria Parker is hoping to following in the footsteps of pal Victoria Beckham and launch a music career. But the actress, 32, who joined Beckham and her Spice Girls bandmates at their Manchester, England gig last week

NPPAC announces 2008-09 classical music series
Home News Tribune - Post a comment. View latest comments. The dynamic Venezuelan-born Gustavo Dudamel will conduct the Israel Philharmonic; Valery Gergieve, in his first international tour as its music director, will lead the London Symphony Orchestra, and Joshua Bell's

Get ready for convergence of mobile services
Hindustan Times - Global handset manufacturers appear to be eyeing the next stage of evolution — of convergence where web and other value added services like gaming, navigation, music, social networking and so on all come together on the mobile phone. Recent moves

City picks
Boston Globe - Home Today's Globe News Business Sports Lifestyle A&E Things to do Travel Cars Jobs Real Estate Local Search Movies Restaurants Music Theater Greener green Today : Check out the Going Green Expo, with several sponsors and exhibitors, including Going Green magazine

Hip-hop high and mighty
News.com.au - We were some raw kids from the street making funky music. We were cool enough, but don't f--- with us," B Real says with a laugh. In 1991, Cypress Hill released its self-titled debut album, with breakout hits The Phuncky Feel One and How I Could Just

Newcastle United 1 - 1 Middlesbrough
Guardian Unlimited - However the following minute-by-minute report should only be read while listening to this piece of music . Newcastle United: Given, Coco, Carr, Chuckles, Taylor, Bonzo, Cacapa, Biffo, N'Zogbia (who is brilliant), Krusty, Duff, Sideshow Bob, Barton

Early stage Alzheimer's: Making the connection
MSNBC - Marjorie grew up surrounded by art, music and theater. Lorraine encouraged her daughter to listen to classical, jazz and Broadway. She was always singing around the house, mostly standards from musicals like “Carousel,” Marjorie said. Lorraine's

Reserve must hold fire on rates - unions
News.com.au - Fully Chic : 100 years of Converse cool Movie Mash : Silly love stories that work Splat! : Remember John Howard's apology? Blogocracy : Information freedom, for now Squanderlust : What to do with $5 million? Tech : Still need to read fine print on music? Jack

The Music of the Doors’ is a heavenly treat from BPO
Buffalo News - If there’s Doors music in heaven — and my heaven wouldn’t be complete without it — it would probably sound like the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra’s “The Music of the Doors.” The Doors’ psychedelic rock with an edge of blues hooked a

Fall back, men, Afghanistan is a nasty war we can never win
Times Online - Today that laughter must be music in Taliban ears. Kabul is like Saigon at the end of the Vietnam war. It swarms with refugees and corruption while an upper crust of well-heeled contractors, consultants and NGO groupies careers from party to party in

CHARLESTON, S.C. | 17-day event is a showcase of theater, dance, music
Chicago Sun-Times - Maybe it's the city's many cobblestone streets, where you often hear the clatter of horses' hooves pulling carriages. Or the lush, perfumed gardens and palm trees. Or the huge array of restaurants featuring "nouvelle" Southern cooking (let's hear it

Tuesday, January 29
News.com.au - MUSIC-SHARING application Qtrax has launched one day late with a glitch that prevents users from downloading music. A FATHER-of-three who sent live sexual footage of himself over the internet to seduce a young girl - in reality an undercover police

World music welcomes Crooked Still and others
Newsday - As musical contests go, it's far tougher than "American Idol" or the Grammys. Insults fly, beliefs are mocked, mothers are besmirched - in short, fun for all. It's my annual winter trip with my old buddies from college. Though there's one unflappable

Globe West Best Bets
Boston Globe - Franklin: The Joy Missionary Baptist Church Choir and the Lincoln Congregation Baptist Church Choir perform gospel music Saturday, 7 p.m., in Dean College's Campus Center multipurpose room, Emmons Street. 508-541-1668. Needham: Folk trio Red Molly

Sharon Isbin makes case for guitar with RPO
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle - There's no permanent spot for performers in orchestras, so she'll hunt down the world's most sought-after composers for new works or take excursions in rock and folk music. The moment she sits down with her guitar and her dainty fingers glide over

You made the Lolita bed, so lie in it
Times Online - On the same day as reports of the Lolita bed hit the headlines, so did the news that 89% of parents, according to a survey of 1,000 families, preferred playing their children pop music than singing to them. The consequence is that nursery rhymes are

Real Cliff Richards clanger
News.com.au - SINGER Sir Cliff Richard has launched an astonishing attack on the Beatles, claiming some of their music was horrific and out of tune. Richard, who has a reputation as pop's Mr Nice Guy, maintained some Beatles numbers were unforgivable. His

Chicagoan of the year: Steve Robinson
Chicago Tribune - The signature commitment to quality classical music broadcasting that has made WFMT-FM 98.7 the most cultured radio station in North America is alive and well as it enters its 57th year of broadcasting this month. Reaffirming that commitment is the