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July 3,
2008
Welcome to July (already?!)
Hope that you all enjoyed are semi-long
weekend celebrating this great nation.
Well, on
a personal note, some of you may know that I have an upcoming hip
surgery next week on Tuesday. So the newsletter slated for July 10th will not
be coming to your inboxes while I concentrate on recovering. But you can expect
one on Thursday, July 17th, as I
expect all will go well with the beginning of recovering to full
steam again. For those of you who already knew, all your support and love has meant
the world and I thank you from my heart.
OK, enough with that stuff ... there is TONS of music news this week
- in fact tons of global news everywhere!
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 Stars Gather To Celebrate Mandela's 90th
Birthday
(June 27, 2008)
LONDON — Will Smith charmed the crowd, Amy
Winehouse wowed them just by showing up – but
Nelson Mandela
proved the biggest star of all at a
concert Friday in honour of
the South African statesman's 90th birthday. |
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Source:
www.globeandmail.com
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Jill Lawless, The Associated Press |
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Felicien 'Working My Butt Off' For Olympics
(June 27, 2008)
Perdita Felicien
is convinced her best race is ahead
of her – she just doesn't know if she'll get a chance to deliver
it in Beijing.
In an exclusive interview yesterday with the Star, her
first since a foot injury in February jeopardized her
chances of
racing at the 2008 Summer Olympics, the Pickering hurdler said
her odds of being able to compete in China are 50-50. |
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Source:
www.thestar.com -
Randy Starkman, Sports Reporter |
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CanStage is on Fire with 7 Doras
(June 30, 2008) Only 12 days after the beleaguered Martin Bragg resigned
as artistic producer of the Canadian Stage Company, his organization
raked in the lion's share of the
Dora Mavor Moore Awards
in the General Theatre category last night. |
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Source: www.thestar.com -
Richard Ouzounian,
Theatre Critic |
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Mississauga Former Stripper Dishes About
Stormy Relationship With Rapper/Actor Mos Def
(June 29, 2008)
One-time stripper
Alana Wyatt-Smith,
29, who has a 7-year-old son with Toronto hip-hop artist
Saukrates, has penned Breaking the Code of Silence, a
memoir examining her 2005 marriage to American MC-turned-actor-Mos
Def, three days after they met, as well as encounters with
various professional athletes and celebs. |
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Source:
www.thestar.com - Ashante Infantry,
Pop & Jazz Critic |
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 Robin Thicke's Got 'Something Else' For You
(July 02, 2008)
*Singer
Robin Thicke
has become a staple in contemporary soul collections. And now Thicke has
another disc for music fans to add. His third album,
titled “Something
Else,” hits stores in September complemented by a promotional tour
beginning in August. |
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Source:
www.eurweb.com
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By Kenya M Yarbrough |
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 Explore Sands Of Time In Namibia
(June 26, 2008) Sossusvlei,
Namibia–The
show of rock and sand found
in Namibia may be the most dramatic in the world. Certainly it's
unsettling, maybe even scary, the way it hammers home nature's
gorgeous potency ... and our small place in it. |
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Source:
www.thestar.com -
Catherine Dunphy,
Toronto Star |
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Showing Youngsters How It's Done
(June 27, 2008) Never mind those celebrated young lions, or
jazz's next
fresh face, the
septuagenarians passing through this edition of
the
TD Canada Trust Toronto Jazz Festival
have it all covered. |
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Source:
www.thestar.com -
Ashante Infantry,
Pop & Jazz Critic |
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Sax Summit Blows Roof Off The Rex While
Chicago Trumpeter Rejuvenates Chestnuts
(June 29, 2008) There are two things to hope for on
TD Canada Trust
Toronto
Jazz Festival
outings: stellar performances by favoured acts and the discovery
of brilliant new talent. |
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Source:
www.thestar.com - Ashante Infantry,
Pop & Jazz Critic |
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Pan-African Band Serve Up Cuban Songs
Tossed With American And French Influences
(June 29, 2008) What's remarkable about
Orchestra Baobab
is how deeply
its players seem to have internalized all of West African pop
music.
"Specialist in all
styles," the band calls itself. The musicians
seem to be making a joke – how can you specialize in everything? |
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Source:
www.thestar.com - John Goddard,
Staff Reporter |
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Calgary's Jazzy, Star-Studded Comeback
(June 27, 2008)
CALGARY —
The packed house falls completely silent, hanging on every note,
and erupting into reverent applause at every opportunity. While
Brubeck's performance has elicited many reactions throughout his
long career, on Thursday his
music signalled something very
particular:
Jazz in Calgary
is back from the brink. |
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Source:
www.globeandmail.com
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Norval Scott |
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Meet Mother Corp.'s Daddy Dearest
(June 27, 2008)
Richard Stursberg
smoothly glides through the sky-busting
atrium of the CBC building, heading toward the sleekly tall
Carole MacNeil, who stands, smiling, sunglasses perched on head.
He brushes a kiss upon her cheek, a gift that
MacNeil, co-host
of CBC News: Sunday and Stursberg's
“girlfriend” – his word – rises ever so slightly on the toe of
one black patent pump to receive. |
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Source:
www.globeandmail.com
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Jennifer Wells |
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Marquees Set To Glitter In Toronto
(June 26, 2008)
If you want your summer vacation to include arts and
entertainment, Toronto is among the best of all places. In late August,
you'll be able to choose from
five Broadway or London musicals running
simultaneously. And within the city there are many other cultural
options. |
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Source: www.thestar.com -
Martin Knelman,
Toronto Star |
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The Other Members
Of G-Unit Understand The Celestial Order Of The Fiddy Universe
(June 28, 2008) 50 Cent's manager, Laurie Dobbins, looks around
the
MuchMusic studio. Minutes after finishing a newspaper interview,
her client has taken a seat, in a
chair to her left, for an
interview with a radio station. The second-most-famous member of
G-Unit
has not. "Where," Dobbins asks, "is Banks?" |
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Source:
www.thestar.com - Daniel Dale,
Staff Reporter |
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Jakob Dylan Follows In His Father's
Footsteps
(June 26, 2008) NEW YORK–At 38 years old and the father of four,
Jakob Dylan
won't |
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