Gleeks at The White House! First Lady Michelle Obama has invited the cast of FOX’s musical comedy Glee to perform at the annual White House Easter Egg Roll on Monday, April 5, Entertainment Weekly tattlers scooped on Monday.
The First Family are reportedly big fans of Glee, and it is believed that show’ production crew is [...]
Google Buzz won’t threaten Facebook in the social networking arena because users are comfortable with the service and have created a lot of content there. Buzz will hit a ceiling and that ceiling is the number of Gmail users, the majority of which are probably also Facebook users. It’s hard to see Facebook users fleeing the leading social network for the new, less fully featured experience of Buzz. Google’s challenge with Buzz is similar to that of the stacked deck Microsoft Bing and Yahoo face every waking day in search.
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News Analysis: When Google
released its Google Buzz social sharing service Feb. 9, it became natural to
speculate whether Buzz would threaten Facebook in the social networking arena.
It won’t because, simply, users have become quite comfortable with
Facebook and some of the 400 mil…
The Department of Health and Human Services reports that Recovery Act funds have been released to encourage widespread meaningful use of health IT, including the transition to electronic health records. The funds will also be used to train 15,000 people in job skills needed for careers in health care, IT and other high-growth fields.
– The White House has announced quot;nearly $1 billion in Recovery Act awards
to help health care providers advance the adoption and meaningful use of health
information technology … and train workers for the health care jobs of the
future. The awards will help make health IT available to over 1…
In his first performance ever at the White House, folk legend Bob Dylan performed his classic “The Times, They are A-Changin” during The Obamas’ White House concert, which airs on PBS stations nationwide tonight, Feb. 11 @ 8 PM ET.
South Korean pin-up Kim Yu-Na and American Shaun White are the top earning athletes at the Winter Olympics, each of whom pocketed $8 million (Dh29.4m) last year, according to Forbes magazine. Figure-skating star Kim, 19, made top dollar for her dynamic aerial skills on ice skates, and the
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BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA, BOB DYLAN, JOHN LEGEND & MORE
TO PERFORM AT WHITE HOUSE FOR PRESIDENT AND MRS. OBAMA
 Blind Boys of Alabama |
Blind Boys of Alabama have been invited to perform at a special concert at the White House on February 10. In Performance at the White House: A Celebration of Music From the Civil Rights Movement will be held in the State Dining Room, and is timed to celebrate Black History Month.
The Blind Boys will join hosts President and Mrs. Obama as well as music superstars Bob Dylan, John Legend, Seal, Jennifer Hudson, John Mellencamp, Natalie Cole and Smokey Robinson on the bill. Morgan Freeman and Queen Latifah will emcee the entire event.
The concert will be the White House’s first music event of 2010, and is the latest in a music series started last year by Michelle Obama. It will be streamed live online at Whitehouse.gov and broadcast on PBS on February 11.
The event is a particularly poignant one for the Blind Boys. “Our group started singing together in Alabama in the late 1930s, and we lived through the dark days of segregation,” says Jimmy Carter, the band’s leader and one of its founding members. “That’s why it is a great pleasure and an even greater honor to sing on this program.”
The White House concert adds to an already remarkable year for the legendary gospel group. The band opened 2010 with a series of concerts in China, then flew to New York last week where they were joined by Lou Reed for a blistering performance on the Late Show with David Letterman. Watch the video of this first time live collaboration here.
The group will be touring the rest of the spring, including upcoming concerts in Morristown, N.J. (with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band), at UCLA’s Royce Hall (with Allen Toussaint) and at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, punctuated by their induction into the Alabama Music Hall of Fame in Montgomery, AL on March 25.
Blind Boys of Alabama Tour Dates
01/29/10 Fri Community Theatre at Mayo Center Morristown, NJ
02/19/10 Fri University of Illinois at Springfield Springfield, IL
02/20/10 Sat Sangamon Auditorium Springfield, IL
02/21/10 Sun The College of William and Mary Williamsburg, VA
02/25/10 Thu Laxson Auditorium Chico, CA
02/26/10 Fri Knitting Factory Reno, NV
03/04/10 Thu Lobero Theatre Santa Barbara, CA
03/06/10 Sat UCLA Los Angeles, CA
03/06/10 Sat Royce Hall at UCLA Los Angeles, CA
03/07/10 Sun Belly Up Tavern Solana Beach, CA
03/19/10 Fri Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts Franklin, NC
03/25/10 Thu The Alabama Music Hall of Fame Tuscumbia, AL
04/23/10 Fri Skipper’s Smokehouse Tampa, FL
04/25/10 Sun New Orleans Fairgrounds New Orleans, LA
THE WHITE STRIPES SET TO RELEASE UNDER GREAT WHITE NORTHERN LIGHTS 3/16
 The White Stripes |
On March 16, enigmatic duo The White Stripes will be releasing their first-ever official live album, featuring 16 songs on both vinyl and CD, as well as the Emmett Malloy-directed documentary film, Under Great White Northern Lights. Those who pre-order this special box set will receive three unreleased tracks by the band for immediate download. Pre-order here.
In the summer of 2007, The White Stripes embarked on a cross-country Canadian tour to accomplish their goal of performing in every province and territory across the expansive northern nation. These two incredible pieces are a unique documentation of that journey, providing a fascinating look into the on and off stage lives of one of the world’s most captivating bands.
Having first premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in September 2009, Under Great White Northern Lights documents the band playing to crowds in towns of all sizes across the Great White North – from traditional venues to matinee gigs at unusual locations such as a bowling alley, a boat and even on a city bus – culminating in a momentous 10th Anniversary show at the historic Savoy Theatre in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia.
A captivating mix of striking live footage and poignant off-stage moments, this visually stirring and emotive feature length film celebrates the band’s 10 year history, bringing the duo full circle in their career to a place reminiscent of how they first started out; shows where no one knew who they were, and where they were left to make a first impression with their music.
The live album continues that celebration and is a perfect companion piece to the film, featuring 16 songs recorded at various shows throughout the Canadian tour – a collection that captures all the aural intensity and spontaneity that The White Stripes have become known for. A compelling reflection of the band’s career, both the live album and the documentary will allow fans to reminisce about where they were when they first heard The White Stripes, while also adding extraordinary pieces of work to their already stunning artistic cannon.
CD Track Listing
1. Let’s Shake Hands
2. Black Math
3. Little Ghost
4. Blue Orchid
5. The Union Forever
6. Ball and Biscuit
7. Icky Thump
8. I’m Slowly Turning Into You
9. Jolene
10. 300 MPH Torrential Outpour Blues
11. We Are Going to Be Friends
12. I Just Don’t Know What to Do With Myself
13. Prickly Thorn, But Sweetly Worn
14. Fell In Love With a Girl
15. When I Hear My Name
16. Seven Nation Army
Fans will also be able to purchase the live album and documentary as part of a limited edition box set, which includes not only the DVD, CD & double LP, but also a live DVD of the band’s 10th Anniversary show, Under Nova Scotian Lights, as well as an exclusive 7 inch, hard cover book of photographs and a silk-screened print. This impressive package will also be available on March 16, with pre-orders currently being accepted here.
The White House still loves Leno!
Jay Leno will host the annual White House Correspondents Dinner in Washington on May 1.
The White House Correspondents Association made the decision to invite Leno to the annual event was made long before TV’s Biggest Chin found himself at the center of a late night shuffle that ended Conan [...]
So-called White House Dinner Crashers Tareq and Michaele Salahi invoked their Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination in an appearance before Congress on Wednesday.
The Virginia couple were subpoenaed to appear before a Congressional committee investigating how the aspiring Bravo reality stars managed to attend The Obamas first White House State Dinner last November without an invitation.
Brit supermodel Kate Moss was spotted holidaying in a sexy white bikini, minus the pounds she is said to have put on during the festive season.
Moss, 35, who was said to have postponed her trip to the Far East, sported a flat tummy as she frolicked on the beach in Phuket, reports the Mirror.
She is [...]
After being one of the leaders in a years-long struggle to open up the interference buffer zones between television channels for unlicensed broadband use, Google steps forward and volunteers to create an FCC-mandated geolocation database. The database will be used to register the locations of fixed TV band devices and protected locations and channels of incumbent services that are not currently recorded in FCC databases.
– Google reversed course Jan. 4,
petitioning the Federal Communications Commission to be considered as one
of potentially several administrators of a white spaces geolocation database.
Google, one of the prime movers promoting the unlicensed use of white spaces –
the interference buffer zones bet…
America’s toniest address is easier to get into than a Miami nightclub!
The White House Dinner Crashers had company. A third uninvited guest made it into The Obama’s State Dinner in honour of the Indian prime minister in November, the Secret Service said on Monday.
While there is no evidence the person had contact with the President [...]
Pat White had only just entered the game against the Pittsburgh Steelers before experiencing a brutal helmet to helmet hit from Ike Taylor. It looked like it knocked White unconscious and he was carted off the field after being attended to by paramedics.
This is no surprise to this Cincinnati Bengals fan, the Steelers have always [...]
The White House warned on Sunday that the recession-plagued US economy, while somewhat improved in recent weeks, will not turn a corner until the soaring unemployment rate declines. President Barack Obama’s top economic aide, Christina Romer, said that the 10 percent unemployment rate could
