It was one of the most musically haunting moments of the 29th Chicago Jazz Festival, or any other.
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Sexy's back: Timberlake steps out on HBO
What's gone around is coming around, thanks to Justin Timberlake.
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Spin City: There he was, interior designer Karim Rashid, a vision in white tonight behind the bar at Krem, only he was mixing house music on three turntables and a laptop at i4design magazine's summer release party. Rashid, a.k.a. DJ Kreemy, rocked the house full of fellow designers in town for the annual NeoCon World's Trade Fair at the Merchandise Mart. "I could [deejay and design] till I die," he said. I don't think the host, i4design publisher Mitch Obstfeld, rented the club for that long. Hey, Rube: "In New York, no one would notice my pink suit," DJ Kreemy said. "In Chicago, everyone commented on it at NeoCon." Kreemy favors pink or white because of their high energy and optimism. But black is a bummer. "It's the urban uniform of architects," he said. Too bad he didn't have time for the "Devil in the White City" architectural tour before he jetted off to Paris.
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Liberation Music Orchestra weaves haunting poetry
It was one of the most musically haunting moments of the 29th Chicago Jazz Festival, or any other.
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Projekt Revolution, a daylong music fest that rolled into First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre on Saturday, was all about catharsis. Virtually every band on the bill featured overwrought choruses, heart-on-its-sleeve lyrics and frontmen who howled as if they were being boiled alive.
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As Snoop Dogg took the stage Sunday night at Charter One Pavilion at Northerly Island, boaters in Burnham Harbor blew their horns to protest the booming music and obscenity-laced lyrics that invaded their quiet weekend on the lake.
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A search for a war criminal by real journalists inspired the film, starring Richard Gere and Terrence Howard.
IN the spring of 2000, journalist Scott Anderson and four fellow reporters embarked on a brandy-inspired search for one of the most wanted war criminals in Bosnia, a surreal expedition in which they were mistaken for a CIA hit team, garnered the attention of the actual CIA and prompted the launch of a real black-ops mission.
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Israeli director Eytan Fox again draws from personal experience, this time in 'The Bubble,' about gay lovers from different sides of the Middle East conflict.
THE Bubble" by Israeli director Eytan Fox, which opens Friday, centers on a charged love story between Noam, an Israeli, and Ashraf, a Palestinian. As if that idea didn't conjure up enough obstacles for the two young leads to face, Noam and Ashraf are men. This will come as no surprise to fans of Fox's work, which includes 2002's "Yossi and Jagger," the clandestine love story of two male Israeli army officers stationed on the Lebanese border. In fact, the personal and the political have merged in Fox's work since he began making movies.
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Some, such as the Changing, Trivium and Hellyeah, excite the crowd, but others seem a little lightweight.
When Korn launched the first Family Values Tour in 1998, the title was a slap at a culture that Jonathan Davis, the Bakersfield band's singer, perceived as mired in child abuse.
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Parents worry that the music school's focus on professional training slights younger students.
As construction cranes swoop over the nearby skyline, promising an ever more vibrant cityscape, a long-held dream is already coming to fruition in downtown L.A.
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After one year on the job, the 'CBS Evening News' is still in third place and experimentation is out.
NEW YORK -- From the beginning, Katie Couric's philosophy about her new post was clear.
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Like an old friend whose flaws one tries hard to overlook, the 29th Chicago Jazz Festival sometimes tested the listener's patience.
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Music-sated fans stay away, and miss those kicking Shins
Emerging indie rock artists, corporate-sponsored promotions and empty seats greeted the Chicago debut of the Download Festival, which Sunday at Northerly Island played host to 10 bands. Since originating in England, the event has evolved into an international concern that this year is hitting four U.S. cities.
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THE 12-STRING GUITAR was just $15 at the Maxwell Street market, but to Juan Salazar, 63, it represents far greater value. "My life and my love was my music," he says of his youth in Mexico. He has lived in the U.S. for 45 years, but before then, in Durango, he would play the accordion in bars for a peso a song. Salazar lives in Pilsen, has a wife and five children and works in a factory that makes cleaning supplies. He found the musician's life at odds with having a family. "In music," he says, "there are no pension plans." He's sanding the guitar, which he says is made of fine wood, or, as they say in Mexico, pico de pajaro (beak of a bird). When he retires to Mexico in a few years, the guitar will be "as good as new," and will go with him.
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"Bourne" screenwriter Tony Gilroy moves to the director's chair with "Michael Clayton."
"There's no shortage of untalented people passing themselves off as directors," screenwriter Tony Gilroy said earlier this year in The Times. He can strike himself from that list. As a result of his highly praised directing debut "Michael Clayton," Gilroy is now negotiating a deal to direct "Duplicity," a screenplay of his that's been passing in and out of the hands of other directors since he sold it years ago.
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The actor, who tends to get typecast, hopes his '2 Days in Paris' role reveals his complexities.
"I'm not 6-foot-1," Adam Goldberg says when he's asked what he'd like people to know about him. "That's on IMDB," he adds, "but, actually, I don't know why I want to dispel that myth. I like that. It gives me an extra 2 inches. That's one of those good fallacies." So, he's fine with that one. But he is tired, he says, of being typecast as a neurotic Jew. "That's definitely a muscle, in a way, that I have. It's one small part of myself, I guess, that I oftentimes will get hired to flex, to extend the metaphor."
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Kelly Clarkson, who scrapped an earlier tour this summer due to slow sales, is heading back on the road this fall.
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"Myths of the Near Future" bested offerings from the likes of Amy Winehouse and previous winners the Arctic Monkeys and Dizzee Rascal.
The Klaxons' debut album "Myths of the Near Future" was named the winner of this year's Nationwide Mercury Prize in ceremonies in London today, finishing ahead of high-profile newcomer Amy Winehouse and previous winners the Arctic Monkeys and Dizzee Rascal. Singer Bat for Lashes also had been considered a strong contender in the field of 12 competitors, which included the Maps, the Young Knives and Fionn Regan.
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Diddley has long battled hypertension and diabetes, among other health problems. He was hospitalized for 11 days.
Primal rock and blues musician Bo Diddley has been released from the hospital and is now resting at home, his publicist said today. Diddley had been admitted to the North Florida Regional Medical Center in Gainesville, Fla., on Aug. 24 after suffering a heart attack during a routine medical exam. He was discharged Saturday.
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LESS than one hour after e-mailing an interview request to an actor's manager, the telephone rang. It wasn't a publicist demanding to know the parameters of the interview, where the story would be placed or how big the photographs would be. It was the actor himself, and in his unassuming way, he agreed to meet with a reporter.
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The 'Project Runway' guru and model Veronica Webb reveal their makeover subjects as swans.
We are never too old for fairy tales, if television is anything to go by. All day long it tells and retells the story of the beast revealed to be a king, the ugly duckling grown into a swan. A hovel becomes a palace, a house, a home. Again and again the ashes are wiped from Cinderella's face to reconcile outer beauty with inner, and it is as good the thousandth time as the first. Welcome to the makeover show.
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Noah Thomson, raised on a commune in Brazil, takes an emotional ride in his Cinemax documentary.
If Ricky Rodriguez had not committed a murder-suicide two years ago, "Children of God: Lost and Found" would probably not have wound up on Cinemax. Rodriguez was the stepson of the late Children of God cult leader David Berg, and his murder of another former "Family member" and subsequent suicide brought renewed media attention to the 40-year-old California-based religious group that had been accused in the past of abusing its children. Mainly because Rodriguez left a videotape explaining his actions: As the victim of repeated sexual abuse in the name of the Family, he was bent on getting what revenge he could.
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During the decade frontwoman N'Dea Davenport was separated from her band the Brand New Heavies, she claims not to have minded — or even much noticed — the string of female singers who supplanted her.
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After canceling a summer arena tour due to poor ticket sales, former "American Idol" winner Kelly Clarkson announced Tuesday that she'll embark on a smaller 26-city tour of theaters this fall.
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Four albums debut in the Top 10 of the national sales chart this week, but none came close to dethroning the soundtrack to Disney's "High School Musical 2." The album sold 210,000 copies, pushing its total to nearly 1.2 million.
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Nancy Knowles has been a big fan of opera since childhood. Now, opera is a big fan of hers.
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Local connoisseurs, junkies for a taste of sweet reggae traditionalism, have been wise to the ways of the quintet called the Aggrolites for going on five years now.
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Is he the next John Travolta or Johnny Depp, or just another teenage fad, as ephemeral as Hula-Hoops, "Scream," "Dawson's Creek" and Leif Garrett? That's the billion-dollar question hanging over 19-year-old Zac Efron, the pimple-free star of Disney's "High School Musical" juggernaut.
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With a wider-than-ever U.S. release for 'Exiled,' filmmaker Johnnie To is finally getting a bigger piece of the action.
NEW YORK -- Even though we tend to assign fixed identities to the directors from Hollywood's golden age, the résumés of filmmakers such as Ford, Hawks, Cukor and Wyler actually cover a range of movies.
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The new version of the classic western didn't have the easiest time getting made.
BRINGING the western "3:10 to Yuma" to the big screen was more than a labor of love for director James Mangold ("Walk the Line") and his producer wife, Cathy Konrad -- it was a magnificent obsession. And it was their passion that kept them determined to make the film even after a studio put it in turnaround -- and logistics presented nightmares.
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The Canadian funnyman talks "The Brothers Solomon."
The Toronto-born funnyman who stole our malevolent hearts with his "Arrested Development" character Gob has moved from scene-stealing character parts to the lead (with Will Forte of "Saturday Night Live") in the new film "The Brothers Solomon." He talked with us about the comedy of malice and the potent humor of Canadians.
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Luciano Pavarotti soared as a celebrity and, for better or worse, redefined what it means to be an opera star.
I first saw Luciano Pavarotti in a production of "Un Ballo in Maschera" at the San Francisco Opera in 1971. A music student at the time, I had a standing-room ticket. I was young and fast, and once the lights went down, I made a dash for an empty aisle seat in the orchestra section.
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