| Sunday night event omitted from music fest
Patrons to this year's music festival will enjoy only three days of revelry, a break from the traditional four-day musical extravaganza. Eleven years into the festival, organisers have decided to scrap the Sunday night session and Culture Minister Ricky Skerritt explained the rationale behind the shortening of the festival's duration. “The Sunday removal from the official roster … I was invited into the discussion and I was involved in making the decision… “The removal of Sunday from the roster was for three main reasons – it was the largest financial burden on the festival of the four nights, in terms of revenue versus expenditure; our research showed that most of the visitors leave the country on the Sunday for various reasons…; and it is also the policy of our ministry to try to get visitors to experience the wider destination, to try to get out and see as much of the country as possible," Minister Skerritt said.
iPhone has a two-faced challenger
While the cell phone industry awaits the release of Apple's iPhone, Samsung has come up with an ingenious design for an all-in-one, wireless device. And although being called two-faced is not usually complementary, in this case, it's an apt description for the company's new handset. Samsung's UpStage, marketed by Sprint, features a cell phone display and dial pad on one side; on the other, there's a larger screen with controls for the built-in MP3 music player. Everything about the UpStage is cool. The device itself is small and sleek — 1.73 by 4.07 by 0.37 inches and only 2.57 ounces. The phone side has a 1.4-inch TFT display and the music player has a 2.1-inch TFT display. It operates on the Sprint CDMA and high-speed EVDO networks. The handset's Lithium ion battery is good for up to 2.5 hours but that's not even half the story.
The digested read On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
They were young, educated, and both virgins on this, their wedding night. As they sat down to dinner in the honeymoon suite of the Dorset hotel, Edward was mesmerised by the prospect of inserting his member inside the moist cavity of this formidably intelligent woman. All that troubled him was the worry of over-excitement. Florence's anxieties were more serious. She loved Edward with a passion but had no desire to be penetrated. She had read the references to glans, mucous membrane and engorged penis in the modern bride's handbook and felt nothing but a visceral dread. .
AOL MUSIC To Present LINKIN PARK In Concert
On May 14, the eve of the release of LINKIN PARK's full-length studio album "Minutes to Midnight", AOL Music will present "Linkin Park In Concert" from New York City. This event will broadcast at 9:00 p.m. ET/6:00 p.m. PT in the movie theatres, online, or on your mobile phone.
To view a list of participating movie theaters in the U.S. and to purchase tickets, go to this location. Theater audiences experiencing this special one-night-only event will see exclusive in-theater-only bonus footage from the making of "Minutes to Midnight". The performance will also broadcast live on AOL Music starting Monday, May 14 at 9:30 p.m. ET/6:30 p.m. PT. It will then be available on demand for you to enjoy anytime. More information is available at this location. "Linkin Park In Concert" will also be available on Verizon Wireless mobile phones and around the world.
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Apple sells 100 millionth iPod, faces latest rival
BEIJING, April 10 (Xinhuanet) -- Apple Inc. on Monday said it has sold its 100 millionth iPod in just over five years, making the digital gadget "the fastest selling music player in history." Introduced in 2001, the music player currently dominates over 75 percent of the market and has spawned an unprecedented range of over 4,000 accessories made specifically for it. "iPod has helped millions of people around the world rekindle their passion for music, and we're thrilled to be a part of that," Apple's CEO Steve Jobs said in a statement. Apple's iTunes online music store has sold more than 2.5 billion songs, 50 million television shows and more than 1.3 million movies. However, the must-have portable device will face another rival on the market with flash memory maker SanDisk announcing on Monday the launch of the Wi-Fi-enabled Sansa Connect, which offers computer-free connection to Yahoo music and download services.
Following the sound of music
The house lights in the Hill Auditorium dimmed, one night in March two years ago, and the audience quited. The anticipation was palpable, and as we sat, we all knew we were about to see something spectacular.
Then, her violin and bow in her left hand, holding up the long skirt of her beautiful strapless dress with her right, the celebrated virtuoso, Anne-Sophie Mutter walked onstage to tumultuous applause.
It wasn't the first time I heard Anne-Sophie's violin, though it was the first time I heard it in person. Five years ago I was living in my hometown of Tehran studying music. If you had told me then that I would be sitting a few yards away from Anne-Sophie Mutter I would have laughed.
I heard about Anne-Sophie for the first time when I was 15.
T'ain't funny, Imus
Don Imus is the anti-hero for our sordid times, the white shadow who reveals everything about the culture. Elvis Presley took black music and made it white, and that was shocking in the '50s, but his raw talent excused a lot. Rock 'n' roll developed as a fusion of black and white rhythms. Don Imus, it's fair to say, has no rhythm. He merely took the vocabulary of black rappers and made an insult of an unfunny attempt at a "joke." If a black celebrity had made a remark about a "nappy-headed ho" it would have passed without notice.
But the Imus controversy is not about Don Imus, but the culture. We've become so inured to vicious vulgarity that the language seeps into the talk of a man who regularly interviews serious politicians and media stars who want to be serious.
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