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September 2, 2010

Welcome to September! Temperatures changing, kids back at school, sharpened pencils, leaves changing, film festival ... yup - all signs of Fall fast approaching. The GREAT news is that this is a loooong weekend. Please enjoy safely.

Now this week brings us one of the most special music videos I've seen in awhile - Saidah Baba Talibah's, Place Called Grace. The video is directed by the mega-talented Sarah Michelle Brown and is so visually and musically appealing - think Idlewild meets Ella Fitzgerald but with full Canadian content!! Congratulations to the full team of contributors ... I couldn't wait to feature this video, which many of you have already seen.

Topping this week's news ... Did you see the BET special this week on women in hip hop? Really good and really took me back and they even mentioned Eternia (Toronto's own!) in their list of upcoming and outstanding MCs. See article below under TOP STORIES. Will Smith gets on board with the fight against cancer and hopefully Hollywood can bring attention to finally beating this disease. Also up front is the results of this year's Emmys. Steve Harvey brings us an award for do-gooders ... from the famous to the average Joe, in the Hoodie Awards.

On the cusp of TIFF, I hope to have some exciting pictures for you this year. If you stay tuned to my PHOTO GALLERY, you can look for updates.

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::TOP STORIES::
	Saidah Baba Talibah’s “Place Called Grace” Makes US Debut As AOL Spinner Video of the Day TORONTO, ON – Following the world premiere of Toronto rock soul songstress Saidah Baba Talibah’s “Place Called Grace” video on Exclaim.ca, Saidah is excited to announce the official US premiere of “Place Called Grace” - the first video off her scintillating The Phone Demos EP - on AOL Spinner’s Video of the Day!
	Source: Theresa Micallef, tenfourcommunications@yahoo.ca
	BET’s First Original Documentry is Artistry in Motion (August 27, 2010) For all of those like-minded connoisseurs of the culture, we offer you BET’s “My Mic Sounds Nice: A Truth About Women In Hip-Hop.” Directed by up and coming filmmaking wunderkind Ava DuVernay*, “My Mic Sounds Nice” is a salve for to the soul for the lover of the culture who is tired of the candy-coated arsenic that passes for Hip-Hop these days.
	Source: www.eurweb.com - By Ricardo Hazell
	‘Stand Up to Cancer’ Adds Will Smith, Denzel Washington (September 1, 2010) *Will Smith and Denzel Washington have been added to the line-up of the telethon “Stand Up to Cancer,” airing Sept. 10 at 8 p.m. across multiple networks. George Clooney, Gwyneth Paltrow and Renee Zellweger will also appear on the fundraiser, which will be preceded by an online pre-show hosted by Cat Deeley of Fox’s “So You Think You Can Dance.”
	Source: www.eurweb.com - Al-Lateef Farmer
	Emmy Winners Are Spot On (August 29, 2010) Either I’m getting better at picking Emmy winners, or the Academy is. I’m guessing it’s them. Actually, my official pre-show prediction ratio was way, way off – I have become so accustomed to anticipating the worst and for the most part getting it, the last thing I expected was for them to get so much of it so right.
	Source: www.thestar.com - Rob Salem
	The 2010 Hoodie Awards Wrap Up (August 30, 2010) Saturday night, multimedia personality Steve Harvey brought his tremendous brilliant power-filled ’8th Annual Hoodie Awards*’ to the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas and turned the super-sized area out with a sold-out audience, heart-tugging musical performances and alarming nods to accustomed people, according to BV’s Karu Daniels.
	Source: www.eurweb.com

::TRAVEL::
	Party Under a Full Moon (August 27, 2010) ZANZIBAR—My generation of travellers grew up on stories of Thailand’s Full Moon Parties. In throngs we set out to the island of Koh Phangan to discover the “party of a lifetime”. Ready to let loose with fire dancers and other creative travellers, I was shocked to find the opposite waiting for me. A Red Bull and booze fest reminiscent of Spring Break throbbed on the beach, drunks peeing in the water, en masse.
	Source: www.thestar.com - Mischa Bartkow
::MUSIC NEWS::
	Drake Channels Sinatra for MTV’s VMAs (August 28, 2010) For the promotional video for the 2010 MTV VMAs, Drake* left his sneaks, stylish jackets, and jeans at home. Instead, he threw on a suave suit. The video starts with the rapper in the dressing room preparing for a live performance.
	Source: www.eurweb.com - By Ricardo Hazell
	Detroit Rap City: Blockbuster Concert Of The Summer (September 01, 2010) DETROIT—You can finally accuse Eminem of understatement. “We’ve done things together,” the Detroit rapper told interviewers when announcing his upcoming shows with Jay-Z. “But I’m not sure we’ve ever done anything this big.”
	Source: www.thestar.com - Brian McCollum
	Balkan Beat Box: The Lady Gaga Of Folk Revivalism (August 30, 2010) If any band could convert Lady Gaga fans to the sharp swagger of Balkan brass band music, it’d be Balkan Beat Box. The “little monsters,” as Gaga calls her acolytes, were impatiently waiting her arrival at this summer’s Lollapalooza festival when Balkan Beat Box took to the stage with their funked-up beats. The connection didn’t take long.
	Source: www.globeandmail.com - Li Robbins
	Big Boi on Tour (August 29, 2010) After starting the summer off with a bang, Big Boi* is doing it big again with a “Son of Chico Dusty” tour to support his debut solo album, “Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty.”
	Source: www.eurweb.com
	NSFW Video: Cee Lo Defends F-Bomb Filled Song as ‘Art’ (August 30, 2010) *Cee Lo’s expletive-laden song “F*** You” has received a lot of criticism for its use of 16 F-bombs over a soulful 3 1/2-minute throwback groove. (Not to mention some S-words and N-words.) But the singer/rapper says the tune is actually a work of art.
	Source: www. eurweb.com
	I Still Believe in Lyfe Jennings (September 1, 2010) I am a Lyfe Jennings* fan; I own his albums, have seen him numerous times in concert, follow him on Twitter, all of that. So when he announced that I Still Believe (in stores and available for download today) was his last album, I was really shocked that he decided to make his exit from recording so soon.
	Source: www.eurweb.com - Al-Lateef Farmer
	Miles Davis’s Bitches Brew Gets Anniversary-Package Treatment (August 30, 2010) Last year, as the 50th anniversary of “jazz’s greatest year” was celebrated, Miles Davis’s Kind of Blue was put forth as the ne plus ultra of improvisation, and perhaps the greatest jazz album in history.
	Source: www. globeandmail.com - J.D. Considine
	Peelander-Z: Power Rangers Of Punk Return (August 28, 2010) It’s not every day that you get to speak to a member of an extraterrestrial garage band. In broken English and calling from New York, Peelander Yellow, lead vocalist and guitarist from anime punk outfit Peelander-Z, assures me that he comes in peace.
	Source: www.thestar.com - Chandler Levack
	Ron Isley Talks Prison, Taxes, R. Kelly, New Collabos, more (August 30, 2010) *Ron Isley sat down with Vibe magazine to discuss his 37-month federal prison sentence for tax evasion, plans for a new album featuring the likes of Lauryn Hill, T.I. and Aretha Franklin, his relationship with R. Kelly and more…
	Source: www. eurweb.com
	Richard Thompson Is Still Alive And Kicking On New Disc (August 20, 2010) “I love kittens and little babies.” Those are the first sung lines of the new Richard Thompson album. My response to the singer? Who are you, and what have done with our man Thompson, the biting lyricist who would never be so warm and fuzzy.
	Source: www.globeandmail.com - Brad Wheeler
	Hey Rude Boys And Girls, Let’s Party Like It’s 1979! (August 29, 2010) At the risk of sounding facile, Saturday night was indeed something special for fans of the pioneering late-seventies English ska band the Specials. The seven-piece hit-makers (whose hits were more consistently Top of the Pops than Billboard) have almost fully reunited for the first time since their 1981 dissolution.
	Source: www.globeandmail.com - Alan Niester
	Tom Petty Gets His Mojo On (August 26, 2010) It is known: Anyone venturing into the bayou had better take a mojo offering with them. So, Thomas Earl Petty, who sometimes looks to the great wide open and the liberation of free-falling but other times takes to the swamps, overjoyed a full mass of humdrum-world escapists at the Air Canada Centre.
	Source: www.globeandmail.com - Brad Wheeler
	With New CD, Luke Doucet Is Off And Running (September 1, 2010) There are no flies on Luke Doucet. After a long day of media interviews and appearances promoting his just-released album (Steel City Trawler), the songwriting singer, producer and fancy-fingered guitarist was relaxing in Toronto on a beer-parlour patio when he rose from his seat, announcing that he should get back to his Hamilton home.
	Source: www.globeandmail.com - Brad Wheeler
	Rogers Media Partners With Warner Music Canada: Launching Innovative Video Advertising Initiatives (September 1, 2010) CNW/ - Rogers Media, one of Canada's leading media companies, and Warner Music Canada, a division of Warner Music Group, today announced a multi-year partnership to sell advertising inventory around Warner Music Canada's premium music video content in Canada.
	Source: Rogers Communications
	MUSIC TIDBITS Hip-Hop to Stop the Violence in NY Video: R. Kelly’s New Single ‘When A Woman Loves’

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::ALL FILM NEWS::
	Callum Keith Rennie: A Man Of Many Faces (August 27, 2010) Callum Keith Rennie’s first big break came in 1996, when he was cast in the Mountie drama Due South, playing the intense, near-sighted detective Stanley Raymond Kowalski. This time, as the unpredictable Detective Ben Sullivan on Global’s new drama, *Shattered* – where Rennie plays a cop who just happens to juggle multiple personalities.
	Source: www.globeandmail.com - Gayle MacDonald
	The Truth About Pat Tillman (August 26, 2010) Towards the end of Amir Bar-Lev’s documentary *The Tillman Story*, a bronze statue of the former NFL football great who died while serving with the Army Rangers in Afghanistan six years ago is awkwardly lowered onto metal footings outside the University of Phoenix Stadium.
	Source: www.thestar.com - Linda Barnard
	Wading Into Winnie Mandela’s World (August 28, 2010) On the east side of Johannesburg, a pivotal scene in the history of South Africa is playing out. About 60 people are lined up on either side of a prison gate, singing and dancing. As the winter sun squints through the trees lining the drive, Nelson and Winnie Mandela appear, walking hand-in-hand toward the exit, their free hands raised in a clenched-fist wave.
	Source: www.globeandmail.com - Clare F. Byrne, Johannesburg
	French Director Alain Corneau Dies At 67 (August 30, 2010) PARIS — Alain Corneau, the French filmmaker who leapt to international notice with the 1991 hit Tous les Matins du Monde, has died, his talent agency said Monday. He was 67.
	Source: www.globeandmail.com - The Associated Press
	Ally Sheedy Plays The Girl With The Jihad Tattoo (August 27, 2010) Settled on a suede sofa at Toronto’s Intercontinental Hotel bar, Ally Sheedy is rooting through her purse. “I have to ask you if I can do the rudest thing,” she says meekly, at last extracting and chomping on a piece of nicotine gum. “Obama chews it. That means it’s okay.”
	Source: www.globeandmail.com - James Bradshaw
	Shia Labeouf Gives Best Bang For The Buck (August 31, 2010) For the second straight year, Transformers star Shia LaBeouf topped a Forbes.com list of Hollywood’s Best Actors for the Buck, with women claiming five of the top 10 spots compared with zero last year.
	Source: www. thestar.com
	The American: A Hunter On The Run, With A Femme Fatale In His Sights (August 31, 2010) The hunter becomes the hunted in *The American, a Euro-style romantic suspense movie by Anton Corbijn (Control) that suggests what would happen if James Bond took his eye off the ball. George Clooney* is that 007 doppelgänger, a still-formidable secret assassin whose heart now rules his head.
	Source: www.thestar.com - Peter Howell
	FILM TIDBITS Tupac Biopic Gets Oscar-Nominated Screenwriters Bollywood Comes To Holy Land For Film About Jesus

::ALL TV NEWS::
	William Shatner Tackles The Weird And Inexplicable In Weird Or What? (August 30, 2010) We all know William Shatner is weird, and clearly he does, too. Why else would he have been tapped to host a show called William Shatner’s Weird or What? quips the Star Trek icon-turned-Priceline pitchman.
	Source: www.thestar.com - Cassandra Szklarski
	The Big C Brings Laughs To A Serious Matter (August 31, 2010) Sometimes laughter isn't just the best medicine. For those living on borrowed time, it's the only option remaining. Unseemly as it sounds, the laughs come freely in the new cable series *The Big C* (Wednesday, Super Channel, at 10 p.m.), which stars film actress Laura Linney as a suburban wife and mother handed a terminal cancer diagnosis. Yes, it’s a comedy.
	Source: www. globeandmail.com - Andrew Ryan
	Flashpoint Leads With 15 Gemini Nominations (August 31, 2010) CTV cop drama *Flashpoint* once again snared the most Gemini Award attention as nominations for the best in Canadian TV were announced Tuesday. Last year, Flashpoint led with a record 19 nominations and went on to win six Geminis, including Best Drama, Direction and Actor, for Enrico Colantoni. Colantoni picked up another nomination this year but for a guest spot on Cra$h & Burn, which got six nominations.
	Source: www. thestar.com - Michael Oliveira
	Jim Parsons: Canada's Favourite Geek Enters TV Pantheon (August 29, 2010) When Jim Parsons was a kid growing up in Houston, he loved television. Sitcoms in particular; he'd spend hours in front of the set soaking up everything from Three's Company to Family Ties.
	Source: www.thestar.com - Bill Brioux
	Are Three New Law Dramas Over The Legal Limit? (August 31, 2010) There oughta be a law . . . oh wait, there is. Wednesday nights won’t stray far from the courtroom this season, with three new legal dramas converging — all at the same time. (This does not include former L.A. Law-yer Jimmy Smits’ new one, Outlaw, which fortunately airs on Fridays.)
	Source: www. thestar.com - Rob Salem
	Fall TV Preview: Sunday, bloody Sunday (August 29, 2010) Once upon a time, Sunday nights were ruled by Ed Sullivan and Dinah Shore. The big news of the night, and indeed the whole season, is the A-list cable drama Boardwalk Empire (premiering Sept. 19, 9 p.m. on HBO Canada), starring Steve Buscemi and co-produced by Martin Scorsese and Sopranos scribe Terence Winter.
	Source: www.thestar.com - Rob Salem
	Surfing, Sweeping, Overeating (August 29, 2010) All you really need — or probably even want — to know about the new Hawaii Five-O (premiering Sept. 20, 10 p.m. on CBS and Global) is what they’ve done with that iconic theme. You can relax, Danno. They haven’t changed a thing. Though it wasn’t for lack of trying.
	Source: www.thestar.com - Rob Salem
	TV TIDBITS Conan O'Brien Names His New Show ‘Conan’

::ALL THEATRE NEWS::
	Doc: The Gut-Wrenching Story Of A Workaholic’s Wife (August 27, 2010) Sharon Pollock has contributed several impressive plays to the canon of Canadian theatre but none, in my book, as powerful and gut-wrenching as *Doc. First produced in 1984, Doc* has been revived by Soulpepper at the Young Centre for the Performing Arts.
	Source: www.thestar.com - Robert Crew
	A Day In The Life Of A Theatre (August 27, 2010) In addition to the actors (and understudies) and musicians on stage for the Royal Alexandra’s latest show, Rock of Ages, toss in the musical director, the production stage manager, the stage manager and staff, including dressers who perform rapid-fire costume changes during the performance backstage, the sound and lighting crews, the head of wardrobe, the wigs mistress and the props master.
	Source: www.thestar.com - Bruce DeMara, Ashante Infantry, and Raju Mudhar
	3 Shaw Plays Planned For 2011 Festival (August 30, 2010) What’s playing at Niagara-on-the-Lake? Thanks to my Shaw Festival mole, Agent Fudge, I’ve been gradually leaking the 2011 Shaw season, which the management has been slow to reveal. So far, we’ve shone the spotlight on My Fair Lady, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Admirable Crichton and Maria Severa.
	Source: www. thestar.com - Richard Ouzounian
	Mirvish Offers A Home To Theatre Museum (August 30, 2010) Monday was the loveliest night of the year for theatre boosters basking in the hilltop garden of philanthropist Nona Macdonald Heaslip. The hostess is one of the key supporters of the long homeless Canadian Theatre Museum.
	Source: www.thestar.com - Martin Knelman

::ALL TECHNOLOGY NEWS::
	Can the iPad save Spider-Man? (August 28, 2010) This weekend, nerd nation descends on Toronto for FanExpo. This is where hardcore gamers in Atari Ts mingle with ladies in their skimpiest animé outfits and toddlers dressed as ewoks. And where fanboys and girls line up for autographs from cult heroes ranging from Batman’s Adam West to Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s James Marsters.
	Source: www.globeandmail.com - Joshua Ostroff
	Katy Perry Gets Her Revenge (August 27, 2010) Whether you’re a “California Gurl” or simply “One of the Boys,” fans of pop queen Katy Perry can now interact with her music in *Katy Perry Revenge, the latest in the Tap Tap Revenge* franchise from Tapulous (now owned by Disney Mobile).
	Source: www.thestar.com - Marc Saltzman
	New Centennial College Course Covers The ‘Wild West’ World Of Producing Webisodes (August 26, 2010) That will be music to the ears of comedy scriptwriter Kyle Muir, who is launching a new program at Centennial College teaching people how to make their own webisodes — those mini TV shows that have stormed the Web and garnered huge audiences. Webisodes can be watched online or downloaded to your computer.
	Source: www.thestar.com - Paul Dalby
	TECHNOLOGY TIDBITS Microsoft raising price of Xbox Live Gold

::ALL OTHER NEWS::
	Novel Direction For Ken Finkleman (August 28, 2010) Ken Finkleman, the Toronto writer, director and actor best known as the mastermind behind the classic CBC TV series The Newsroom, freely admits his debut novel Noah’s Turn is more than a little indebted to Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment. But he insists at the same time that any resemblance to Martin Amis’s The Information is purely coincidental.
	Source: www.thestar.com - Vit Wagner
	Archie And The Gang Welcome First Gay Character (August 20, 2010) Riverdale hasn’t seen anything like this before. In an issue of *Veronica, a spinoff of Archie* comics hitting stands on Wednesday, Archie and the gang will welcome the first openly gay character in the series’ 69-year history.
	Source: www.globeandmail.com - Dave McGinn
	Jonathan Franzen On Fiction, Fame And Freedom (August 27, 2010) In the realm of what he calls “the digital junk stream,” American writer Jonathan Franzen, 51, is still best known for dissing Oprah Winfrey’s book club almost a decade ago, leading the great tastemaker to cancel a planned television appearance in which Franzen had hoped to promote his third novel, The Corrections.
	Source: www.globeandmail.com - John Barber

::ALL SPORTS NEWS::
	Argos Cough Up A Furball Against Ticats (August 20, 2010) The Toronto Argonauts have prided themselves on avoiding mistakes in their return to respectability this season. After Friday night’s showdown against the rival Hamilton Tiger-Cats, they may have to go back to the drawing board.
	Source: www.thestar.com - Chris Zelkovich
	Canada Looks To Future After Elimination At Basketball Worlds (September 01, 2010) Canada's Joel Anthony, left back, leaps to the net as New Zealand's Mika Vukona, left, scores next to teammate Thomas Abercrombie during a preliminary round match between Canada and New Zealand at the FIBA World Basketball Championships in Izmir, Turkey, Sept. 1, 2010. Canada was eliminated with the loss.
	Source: www.thestar.com - Doug Smith
	St-Pierre to defend UFC title against Koscheck Dec. 11 (August 31, 2010) Georges St-Pierre will defend his UFC welterweight title against American Josh Koscheck on Dec. 11 in his hometown of Montreal. UFC president Dana White confirmed the news to The Canadian Press.
	Source: www. thestar.com - Neil Davidson
	Scotty Pippen is Getting a Statue (August 27, 2010) *Perhaps it’s been a long time coming for him, but an NBA legend is finally getting the recognition he deserves. The Chicago Bulls have plans to unveil a bronze statue of Hall of Famer Scottie Pippen that will be displayed permanently in the United Center at some point towards the end of the 2010-11 season.
	Source: www.eurweb.com
	SPORTS TIDBITS Hamilton Changes Course On Pan Am Stadium Project Cancer In Remission, Mandi Set For Treatment Canadian Stuns No. 30 at U.S. Open

::FITNESS::
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	By Raphael Calzadilla, BA, CPT, ACE, RTS1, eDiets Chief Fitness Pro
::MOTIVATION::
Motivational Note "True compassion is universal in scope. It is accompanied by a feeling of responsibility. A truly compassionate attitude toward others does not change even if they behave negatively or hurt you."
Source: His Holiness the Dalai lama


Have a great week! Dawn Langfield Langfield Entertainment www.langfieldentertainment.com

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