NY TIMES - Fans are buying fewer and fewer full albums. In the shift
from CDs to digital music, buyers can now pick the individual songs they
like without having to pay upward of $10 for an album. Last year,
digital singles outsold plastic CD's for the first time. So far this
year, sales of digital songs have risen 54 percent, to roughly 189
million units, according to data from Nielsen Sound Scan. Digital album
sales are rising at a slightly faster pace, but buyers of digital music
are purchasing singles over albums by a margin of 19 to 1. Because of
this shift in listener preferences — a trend reflected everywhere from
blogs posting select MP3s to reviews of singles in Rolling Stone —
record labels are coming to grips with the loss of the album as their
main product and chief moneymaker.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/26/business/media/26music.html/partner/rssnyt
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STAR PLUS - Jeremy Piven has reportedly been banned from Nobu
restaurants after paying a waiter's tip with a DVD. The star was dining
at celebrity chef Nobu Matsuhisa's restaurant in Aspen, Colorado during
the recent Comedy Arts Festival. When the bill came, Piven paid up and
left the waiter a copy of his Entourage DVD as a tip. The outraged
server threw the DVD at the celebrity diner. . . The actor was later
advised to steer clear of all Nobu restaurants.
http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/03/27/restaurant_
reportedly_bans_jeremy_piven_
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MICHAEL O'MALLEY, CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER - Jack Hanrahan, once a
big-time Hollywood script writer who won an Emmy for "Rowan & Martin's
Laugh-In" and was part of the West Coast glitterati for decades, is
destitute and living in a Cleveland homeless shelter. Hanrahan, 74, a
cartoonist and actor who grew up in Cleveland, wrote for some of the
most popular television shows of the 1960s and 1970s, including "Get
Smart," "Police Woman," "The Waltons" and "The Sonny and Cher Comedy
Hour." But the man whose work brought laughter to millions has be come a
sad charac ter in a tragic street play. He has no teeth. His tangled,
thin hair hangs to his shoulders, and his only possessions are the
clothes on his back, a bag of tobacco and rolling papers. . . During
conversations, Hanrahan, like Shakespeare's King Lear, rages at the
world, then slips into the old comic routine, cracking one-liners. . .
Hanrahan's ophthalmologist in Eureka, Paul Domanchuk, who has known the
writer for 10 years, said Hanrahan hit the skids about a year ago. "He
was living in a beautiful little house and something just cracked," he
said. "He stopped taking care of himself, he stopped paying his bills
and cleaning his house."
http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/cuyahoga/
117455242166790.xml&coll=2&thispage=1
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ABOUT THE NEW ACTING HEAD OF THE SMITHSONIAN
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/26/
AR2007032602073.html?nav=rss_politics
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CELLO AND BEATBOX FLUTE
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/456315/cello_and_beatbox_flute/
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from CDs to digital music, buyers can now pick the individual songs they
like without having to pay upward of $10 for an album. Last year,
digital singles outsold plastic CD's for the first time. So far this
year, sales of digital songs have risen 54 percent, to roughly 189
million units, according to data from Nielsen Sound Scan. Digital album
sales are rising at a slightly faster pace, but buyers of digital music
are purchasing singles over albums by a margin of 19 to 1. Because of
this shift in listener preferences — a trend reflected everywhere from
blogs posting select MP3s to reviews of singles in Rolling Stone —
record labels are coming to grips with the loss of the album as their
main product and chief moneymaker.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/26/business/media/26music.html/partner/rssnyt
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STAR PLUS - Jeremy Piven has reportedly been banned from Nobu
restaurants after paying a waiter's tip with a DVD. The star was dining
at celebrity chef Nobu Matsuhisa's restaurant in Aspen, Colorado during
the recent Comedy Arts Festival. When the bill came, Piven paid up and
left the waiter a copy of his Entourage DVD as a tip. The outraged
server threw the DVD at the celebrity diner. . . The actor was later
advised to steer clear of all Nobu restaurants.
http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/03/27/restaurant_
reportedly_bans_jeremy_piven_
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MICHAEL O'MALLEY, CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER - Jack Hanrahan, once a
big-time Hollywood script writer who won an Emmy for "Rowan & Martin's
Laugh-In" and was part of the West Coast glitterati for decades, is
destitute and living in a Cleveland homeless shelter. Hanrahan, 74, a
cartoonist and actor who grew up in Cleveland, wrote for some of the
most popular television shows of the 1960s and 1970s, including "Get
Smart," "Police Woman," "The Waltons" and "The Sonny and Cher Comedy
Hour." But the man whose work brought laughter to millions has be come a
sad charac ter in a tragic street play. He has no teeth. His tangled,
thin hair hangs to his shoulders, and his only possessions are the
clothes on his back, a bag of tobacco and rolling papers. . . During
conversations, Hanrahan, like Shakespeare's King Lear, rages at the
world, then slips into the old comic routine, cracking one-liners. . .
Hanrahan's ophthalmologist in Eureka, Paul Domanchuk, who has known the
writer for 10 years, said Hanrahan hit the skids about a year ago. "He
was living in a beautiful little house and something just cracked," he
said. "He stopped taking care of himself, he stopped paying his bills
and cleaning his house."
http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/cuyahoga/
117455242166790.xml&coll=2&thispage=1
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ABOUT THE NEW ACTING HEAD OF THE SMITHSONIAN
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/26/
AR2007032602073.html?nav=rss_politics
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CELLO AND BEATBOX FLUTE
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/456315/cello_and_beatbox_flute/
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