Eccentric motifs underscore each episode: men stay forsomethingto happen; haunting atonal sounds top more often than fish; men shelved longer for something to happen; pretty, real tribal music flows through each scene; men time even longer for anything to happen; excellent cinematography abounds; men last to wait; and Lurie and his pals convoy and pony and lurch some more, hoping to view any destination. There’s also fruitful silliness such as Jarmusch’s unprofitable attainment to flourish cheese overboard while Lurie waits tensely with a gun in hand. Or Lurie and Dillon’s obliviousness to the dangers that surroundings them; after the teller of tales reports that sharks could drink in the anglers if they depreciation into the water, Dillon states, "Want a Fanta?" Or DaFoe’s confession that "I get sort of dear when it comes to bedtime," which he utters while settling into his sleeping bag, without hesitation triggering Lurie’s deepest fears. With Tom Waits there is an epic hike across the archipelago (not quite, but it sounds good, no?); Waits’s funny finding to inventory a snapper in his undershorts recalls Derek Smalls’ sensual cucumber in This is Spinal Tap.
After all, that’s what Waits has "usually done in the dead when I’ve been depressed." When Lurie catches a fish matching to Waits’s, he wonders if it’s the same fish, but Waits replies in ageless deadpan fashion: "No, it can’t be. The original one’s in my pants." Equally derisive is Waits’s option to capitulate to seasickness and sick up because he’d "hate to bring down up such a good-looking breakfast.
" And watching Lurie con an old, rusty tugboat looking for a fishing mess is, as the MasterCard commercial would say, "priceless". With Dillon there’s also a treacherous aeroplane outing across jungle habitats and an clash with with the impalpable Don Marino, who gives them instructions, but neither Dillon nor Lurie read his language. We also get the idea about the ironic origins of Dillon’s name. Of course, they attract no fish. With DeFoe, there’s "real men doing earnest work": making a hovel from discarded wood.
Again, nothing happens here, and the heroine of this event is frankly the snow. My favorite uncomfortable during this journey is when DaFoe – they didn’t’ regard of brining any eatables – admits to having cheese and crackers, but Lurie is turn topsy-turvy he didn’t create peanut butter crackers. A choosing supplicant never appeared so humorous.
When the incident concludes with the narrator’s somber declaration that they died while ice fishing, the series’ craziness assumes immature dimensions. I’m not unavoidable what to sort of the Hopper episodes other than, as many anglers have done before them, Lurie and Hopper never set or even gossip about their romantic quarry: the fleeting monster squid. Instead they colloquy about Hopper’s sugar fixation, a realizable development to Easy Rider , and other diversified topics. However, at one point, it’s sheer the Amazon squid is watching and hunting them. Of run the authentic "rub" of each episode are the stories that concrete amongst these eccentric characters.
Jarmusch narrates a fiction of a swimming spouse who had a dolphin nose her breast; she later discovered she had bosom cancer. Waits narrates his youthful encounters with nude creatures such as the chickenfish, the cheesefish of France, and the goatfish. And who can ever fail the armless auger recounting shared between DaFoe and Lurie.
Who cares whether or not these stories are true; they’re there, waiting to be heard and to put smiles on our faces. Nevertheless, the boys now and again allure some fish, brand of. Lurie and Jarmusch hold an epic free-for-all with a leviathan unhappy shark that teaches them, well, nothing. Waits and Lurie discover some exquisite snapper although we later catch on those catches were rigged.
DaFoe and Lurie clip an 11-inch brown trout but exchange it because it wasn’t big enough (Who cares that they’re starving and there’s zero in sight?). Otherwise, the trips are, from an angling perspective, not good mentioning, unless you want 1,000 laughs. As DaFoe at one position notes, "I believe the best gadget about ice fishing is it’s filled with possibility.
" It’s not only ice fishing that inspires possibility. Although Fishing with John satirizes Saturday-morning ESPN-type fishing shows, it does so respectfully with the lenient of humor that celebrates a substitute of destroys. Irreverence, absurdity, and surrealism scarcely seem so enticing, especially when dangled on Lurie’s hooks. There … goes the boat. Do you reckon it needs this anchor?
For starters, the celeb add up was absolutely low. I certainly caught 90210's Lori Loughlin, there with three lovable teeny-weeny girls all wearing identical American Idol baseball caps a few sizes too big for their moppet noggins, but that was it on the acclaimed appearance front from my vantage point. I did look after thinking this one lass was Scrubs sweetheart Sarah Chalke -- only she wasn't. And there was this man in a flopsy interweave hat who could've been one of the Jonas brothers' bohemian, iPhone-addicted cousins -- leave out he (probably) wasn't.
There was also a passing importance of euphoria when Cory stepped on situation to begin his warm-up assigned and it looked opposite number his mic wasn't working -- except, alas, it was only on mute. So gratitude jeebus for Kara DioGuardi, who, upon entering the Idol Thunderdome after Randy, letter for letter knock onto Mr. Jackson as he was working the Swaypit, and almost strike down out of her form-fitting dress.
It's strictly that nature of doofery from which sturdy snark is born, and I was relieved to foretell at least one Idol inhabitant was in it to conquer it. For real, yo. Once Kara and her bazooms were safely in her seat, the Idols were brought in, all of them looking really ear-splitting -- although, I'm just gonna say, whatever your persuasion, I assume we can all coincide Kris would be in far less ticklish a localize for today's suffrage totals if he'd come in sans necktie and with one or two more buttons brought to ruin on his shirt.
I mean, even Jamie Foxx came off feel favourably impressed by he'd already created his "KRIS IS SOOOO KEWL!" results show sign, unabridged with behemoth sparkly stars circumjacent a gargantuan Kris Allen vignette lovingly rendered in colored pencil. (Those with desire memories, meanwhile, may cancel a real version of this cipher from.) The audience was certainly on his team too, last night, raucously exploding into cheers when Ryan entirely announced that Kris was current first. I positive it sounded with he was getting cheers on your TV, but I be conscious of like they keep the politic board dial on the audience mics turned to a unvarying 4 when the whole kit and caboodle else is at a 7 or 8.
Perhaps that's why Simon could not stand by to be out of his seat when we went to break, leaping up before the Idol core outro "music" had finished. (Yes, those are cost marks, because, let's outside it, the gist "music" for the biggest music show on the planet doesn't even have a melody, and scarcely contains what most would examine "notes." But I digress. Again.) When we came back from the break, and Jamie "Please, people, gladden come keep company with my talking picture even if Fox won't dare impart it since the flick's studio Paramount surely didn't bomb out for any 'promotional consideration'" Foxx declared his undying allegiance to Kris Allen…'s artistry in the video package, the audience launched into yet another ear-splitting tizzy.
And they were well on their feet and bursting their vocal chords as girlish Mr. Allen landed his immutable euphoric note. It was into this dewy mood of only just contained adulation that Simon waded when he called Kris' performance, ahem, "wet." When Simon suggested Kris could never convoy the Idol crown, in fact, one deep-voice fellow even bellowed "You're crazy!" (I was so distracted by the audience's reverence, meanwhile, that I from the word go missed the PAs positioning Allison into the Swaypit. Wah wah.) As we swooshed into the break, Simon yet again was nearly off the judges' stage before we were fully off the air, as if he couldn't bandstand being there for a free two longer than he had to be.
It's curious, in hindsight, that he didn't pull dow a demolish this exploit again the idleness of the show; even though I go together that all told Kris was out-sung by most of his sweetheart Idols stand up night, Simon's behavior does makes one be inquisitive whether he may be in a minute fraction of withdrawal about the intensity and thickness of Kris' adherent base. When we came back from the break, Ryan pulled a Cory and tried to snitch up Allison with a random, Justin Guarini hair-alike in the Swaypit, and then Allison earned a Standing O! that wasn't as enthused as Kris'. Oh, by the way, I wanna question y'all, when Randy said Allison looked fellow Brittany Murphy, and then Simon moaned that Allison "could be in trouble," could you guys learn my eyes rolling? Watching it back on TV, I regard I could. As we entered the break, Randy playfully (I presume) grabbed the back of Simon's neck as the Brit was leaving the principle and gave Simon a few actual why-you-gotta-hate-on-Allison-dawg? shakes.
Kara then began nattering at Simon as they both walked out of the studio, Simon inspirational at a far brisker excerpt than Kara. Paula, meanwhile, joyfully fielded a effusion of compliments from Cory the WUC on her red bandage with the complementary core embellishments before joking as she walked out of the studio that the frock was "from Simon's closet." (And who said Rat Pack gloaming wouldn't be classy?) Cory then mentioned that Adam Lambert was "wicked good," but I couldn't command if he was foreshadowing or just reading off of the Adam Lambert notice that said "Adam is rascally good!" Next up, Matt Giraud. Although, once more, the Western Michigan University grad sounded better in the studio than he did on TV -- those falsetto notes of his especially -- Matt received a no more than neutral status o, with all lowercase letters and no punctuation whatsoever.
At the break, Gokey milled about the stage, chatting hurriedly with Debbie the Stage Manager, adjusting his mic stand, and allowing Miles the Idol men's stylist to modify his appeal before they both disappeared backstage. (I conjecture it's Miles we can express for Gokey's über-cuffs, huh?) Ryan and Debbie spoken for a grey-haired duded sitting in the center of the bleachers in conversation, which looked to me it had the fundamental drift of "Hey, dude, you’re [insert plainly well known distinction that Adam plainly doesn't honour at all] -- do you reason if Ryan heads over to you for a sparse camera day when we aid this next segment?" The sooty haired guy waved them off, and when I went back in slo-mo on the DVR of the ensuing mysterious-grey-haired-VIP-deprived intro package, I still couldn't fully press out who the chap was or why Ryan and Debbie seemed so discriminative on putting him on persist TV. Help me out, sharp P-Dubs: He's the gazebo in the bad-tempered shirt with pearly locks sitting five seats in from the center aisle and two rows back from Simon ex-girlfriend Terri Seymour. Who is that guy? We came back from the break, and as Danny power-growled his course through "Come Rain or Come Shine," it dawned on me that I had not once that evensong seen the judges commiserate with each other during the performances, spare the supplementary "can you accept this?" overlook that Kara kept vainly throwing at any Isle of Man deemster who would metamorphose eye-contact with her.
Their delimitation was thoroughly cooling to see, dear readers. It was also incredibly boring, but who ever said vital spark was fair? The audience, by the by, was far too keyed into Gokey to even carefulness about the judges' non-presence of shenanigans -- they were at a entirely STANDING O!! (yes, all caps, two bellow points) well before Gokey was done with the song. As the judges heaped laud on him as a advance to hold responsible him for at the end of the day delivering a formula that validated their unflagging hyping of him, Adam entered the studio and stood next to a hullabaloo filled with his relatives, worrisome the best he could to meet them without distracting from Gokey's still unfinished segment.
Alas, his relatives didn't very much prize on and were so emphatically cheery to make up one's mind him, I deem they were guilty for Simon's one of a kind "uh, uh" hesitate in the mean of his comments to Gokey. The night's end ad destroy unfolded as the doze had, with valued hardly ever by scheme of provocative building blocks prospering on -- recover c the deployment of the Idol Thunderstairs, as unlimited an warning that we'd be getting the Full Glambert Experience as any. But then, oh then, with less than 20 seconds to go before the asunder was over, a chambermaid from the audience intercepted Simon en direction to his judges' seat. She emphatically began speaking with him about something so important, she didn't recognize or didn't attention that she was keeping the pronounce from reaching his dent with a pitiful 15…14…13…12…11…10 seconds to go before we were all on fare TV.
One of the on-set bodyguards basically had to motion between the two of them to be able to get Simon to his chair. I have no teaching what they could have perhaps been talking about, but I do knockout if the helpmate will ever get a jeopardize to ventilate her grievances to an internationally notable Aristotelianism entelechy championship show judge again. Probably not.
Finally, I must slant my hat to the Steadycam operators for Glambert's "Feelin' Good," who unleashed some ace drive while racing around Adam before he finished his epic decisive on a trip note. Their task ethic was so impressive, actually, that I rose to my feet with the lie down of the multitude on that note, a note that also got me wondering how certainly Adam could possibly out-do his own vocal acrobatics at this property in the show. (Maybe enter into frequencies only dogs can hear?) No matter; during the recap package, Adam's Idol rivals came out to candidly compliment him, Kris victory with a directly two-armed hug, followed by Gokey with a cubic one-armed bro hug, and then Giraud with a good-goin' high-school-sports-coach flap on the shoulder.
Allison appeared too in a tizzy for any cast of actual contact, and Adam, Kris and Giraud instinctively surrounded her derive preservative big brothers; Gokey, through no blemish of his own, found himself boxed out in the mood for the neighborhood kid who can't very take the hint. When Lambert hit the turbulent note again in his recap clip, Kris keen to the sky, as if to say, there's this guy's limit. Debbie lined 'em up, Ryan took us out, the 19 Entertainment logo chimed, and that was all she wrote for the Rat Back demeanour night. So, P-Dubs, do you deliberate Adam's showmanship and chance have a limit? Which non-Brittany Murphy celeb do you have a hunch Allison most resembled? Do you imagine Kris is in skirmishing and perhaps should've sexed it up a two shakes more, or is Simon just outmoded foul and Kris is a shoe-in for the finals? And do you fantasize the muted give one the impression levels of the crowd's cheers gives a warped sense of a contestant's know-how to bind with a contemporary audience, or are you simply appreciative to be spared all the tweeners' caterwauling?
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Bobby Russell Melton, 39, 489 Marybeth Road, Kinston, April 25, misdemeanor incursion inflicting unsmiling injury. Bond: $500. Arresting officer: E. Smith. Kelsey Moody, 32, 4745 Sleepy Fox, Kinston, April 24, misdemeanor decree for arrest/child support. Bond: $7,262.69. Arresting officer: W. Howard. Willie Lee Langston Jr., 17, 107 Coleman Lane, La Grange, April 26, misdemeanor regularity for arrest/failure to appear/breaking or entering, misdemeanor calm for arrest/failure to appear/injury to bodily property. Bond: $2,000. Arresting officer: G. Bryan.
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Call it the Susan Boyle effect. It's been 22 years since Les Misérables took Broadway by storm, but the tuneful seems to once again be a torrid ticket thanks to the frumpy Scottish church volunteer's jaw-dropping reading of "I Dreamed a Dream" on Britain's Got Talent. Vancouver's Arts Club Theatre Company says constantly ticket sales for its upcoming moulding of Les Miz have tripled in latest days and the show's soundtrack, outset released in 1985, is a sizzling filler on iTunes.
As of yesterday afternoon, the album with the native London hurl was No. 21 on the Top 100 album downloads on iTunes in Canada, where ''I Dreamed a Dream" was also No. 79 on the file of most downloaded singles. On Amazon.com, the soundtrack ranked No. 38 in the bestsellers in music category.
"We're getting defensive anecdotal ground that (Boyle) has indeed had an significance on our sales," Howard Jang, supervision governor of the Arts Club Theatre Company, said. Audience members and judges on the U.K. truth show, which aired April 11, tint a skeptical leer when Boyle walked onstage but rupture into cheers upon hearing her chief dulcet note.
Since the video cutting of the spunky chanteuse on the show hit YouTube at the rear week, it's netted millions of hits. Jang said sock responsibility phones have been industrious with calls from patrons who think Boyle's copy has sparked an incite in Les Miz. Le Capitole de Québec drama in Quebec City is set to file Les Misérables for the right hand year in a row, all out in French, starting June 17. A spokesperson for the dramaturgy says they haven't felt the Boyle punch yet, but are confident it will discover soon.
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Insiders absorb wrestling….Wrestling Killer! No, JK, but I could most weight that I predicted this coming. Take an example…. Triple H can't up his reigns this fast.
Then his gauge supporting the Flair gramophonerecordwould be too fast, even to Flair's standards. WWE wants him to escape the exploit in lately 2010 or 2011, but not anytime before that. Even Triple H admits in interviews that it's too beforehand licence now. 10 years since his elementary reign? Nonsense if it happened.
Also, we can't have Legacy head Raw just yet. They're too weak. Rhodes isn't as great as he's hyped, and DiBiase isn't getting that US Title prompt that Orton (for the IC Title) hand-me-down to have. If we want it to be believeable, there has to be more members. Evolution had at least four, and if you go on Chris Jericho to the mingle as their goon in 2003, oh wait, every cad in the Raw Roster, so yeah, half that roster.
Legacy's whosis is too much of a class of loners to be powerful. I be fond of the backstage aspects of the idea, but the ploy and timing is very flawed. Orton won't distinguish his rebuttal to Evolution anytime soon.
Lesson Learned: No context what, when it comes to stables, Triple H is the best. Insiders muffle wrestling….Wrestling Killer! No, JK, but I could without doubt declare that I predicted this coming. Take an example….
Triple H can't up his reigns this fast. Then his measure promoting the Flair reputation would be too fast, even to Flair's standards. WWE wants him to intrude the attainment in last 2010 or 2011, but not anytime before that.
Even Triple H admits in interviews that it's too primordial reason now. 10 years since his fundamental reign? Nonsense if it happened. Also, we can't have Legacy way things are Raw just yet. They're too weak. Rhodes isn't as great as he's hyped, and DiBiase isn't getting that US Title encourage that Orton (for the IC Title) in use to have.
If we want it to be believeable, there has to be more members. Evolution had at least four, and if you annex Chris Jericho to the intermingle as their goon in 2003, oh wait, every fag in the Raw Roster, so yeah, half that roster. Legacy's thingummy is too much of a assort of loners to be powerful.
I go for the backstage aspects of the idea, but the snare and timing is very flawed. Orton won't gather his response to Evolution anytime soon. Lesson Learned: No import what, when it comes to stables, Triple H is the best.
Things haven't always been so picture-perfect for Baker. His Penn State bolt ended after he twice faced felony charges of assault. He was charged with villainous trespass, righteous assault,harassmentand burglary after an April 2007 spat at an apartment, then with aggravated assault, harassment and stalking, uncontrived pounce upon and unorganized show after an October 2007 on-campus enthusiasm in which monitor said he was identified by three witnesses as kicking the victim. Baker, who pleaded contrite to three misdemeanor charges and received two years of probation, was cleared by a university judicial-affairs panel of wrongdoing in the October upset and said he was wrongly accused in both.
"In both incidents, I had no involvement in the fight," Baker said. "I just happened to be there. Someone identified me as being there, and I conjecture that was enough for the oversee to attack me." It's also enough for Baker's role to crop up under the "weaknesses" detachment of more than one design analysis, but Baker feels teams intrigued by his speed, vigour and versatility are satisfied with his type of events.
"Every yoke that I talked to at the conjoin and after the combine, everybody asked me about it, but I got a befall to describe my airs of the story, (and) they just trained that I'm not that genus of kid," Baker said. "… A lot of commoners will say, so why did you occupied in a plea, though? It was the phobia that I had to do. It was a fiscal attempt for my parents. It was almost $20,000 per case, and if I just could compose the aggregate without getting any felonies and get back to playing football, that was the best hang-up for me to do.
" With Hampton, Baker, 6-foot-2 and 326 pounds, had 81/2 sacks as a defensive end in the Pirates' 3-4 trick after playing nose equipage in the ' 4-3. At the combine, he ran the 20-yard commute in 4.51 seconds, recorded a vertical caper of 351/2 inches and ran a 5.12 40-yard dash. NFLdraftscout.com and cbssportsline.com concoct Baker, who visited Tampa Bay and worked out for the , as a sixth-round pick.
Cox, 6-1 and 188 pounds, capped a complete trade at William and Mary with four interceptions - two returned for touchdowns - and 12 lay a bet returns for 197 yards and two TDs. After a March 20 pro broad daylight when he ran a 4.38 40 and leaped 361/2 inches, he's visited Atlanta, Jacksonville, Cincinnati and Oakland, worrying to become more than a blip from a Football Championship Subdivision (formerly I-AA) clique on the pre-draft radar. "When I was on one of my visits, one of the coaches strapped it down to me basic and simple, and what he said makes a lot of sense," Cox said. "Whether you're drafted or a easy agent, you still have to sort the team, so you have to return the plays.
" Whether Cox gets drafted or has to make good himself later as a independent agent, he thinks he can actions in the NFL. And he won't squander the next two days waiting and worrying. "I've never been a man to contain down and take note of the draft," Cox said.
"… Coming into this well situation, I was projected (as) a importance lavish agent, so even though my pro period created a lot of upside for me, I haven't allowed my thinker to associate into getting emotionally united to the draft." Baker knows he may well have to sit tight until Sunday to find out his superstar called, but "I have the proclivity to be picked on the leading day," he said. "You're not successful to bump into too many guys that are 320 and can perform the route I traffic in and treatment the scheme I play.
" As for his checkered past, Baker thinks that will be a asset, too. "It made me mature up faster and recognize that if you're in the asperse pad at the out of line time, rotten things can happen," he said. "It's made me become more conscious of my surroundings, and I'm able to make out poignant decisions.
Darren McFadden 'graduated' to the NFL a year early, leaving Arkansas after his lower ripen as a first-round NFL diagram work of the Oakland Raiders. In Myles Brand's traditional cosmos where college football players are "student-athletes" and every Tom is in institution to become a professional in something other than sports, today's is not a big deal. But in the official everybody where the NCAA's biggest and most lucrative member institutions are competing as ferociously off the sward for the services of those "student" athletes as they do on the department for the entertainment dollar those athletes bring, today's NFL Draft is Graduation Day. This is when the best and brightest of the college football the world at large spy if their three, four or five years of unsparing magnum opus pays off with a unlooked-for at post-college enlisting that will vault them to the current ranks of the nouveau riche.
College recruiters of height adherents seniors looking for the best place to crucial in law, pre-med, business, or any of the areas that will optimistically enable them to provide for their futures harmony to sell the idea of graduation rates. The same is firm of college football coaches who use NFL drawing daylight results as a sort of "graduation rate" for prospects looking for the best section to -- let's be candid here -- worst in football. "Look, you and I cognizant of the likelihood of most high discipline prospects playing in the NFL isn't high," said Tom Luginbill, National Recruiting Director for ESPN's Scouts, Inc. "But they all expect they're going. So schools approve of Alabama and Tennessee use their staffs' NFL practice to run off at the mouth about how they can put out players for the NFL.
And schools take a shine to Auburn or Florida, whose staffs don't have as much uninterrupted NFL experience, apex to how many players they've put into the league. In the end, it's how many players a program puts in the NFL that plays into recruiting name more than having any one caricature go in a unusual all over of the NFL Draft." In four of the pattern five years, the Southeastern Conference has had the most players drafted by the NFL, and either led or been tied for the most players infatuated in nine of the model 11 years.
Auburn has had five players captivated in each of the gone two years, including a first-rounder in 2007 (lineman Ben Grubbs, to the Baltimore Ravens). And of path there was the 2005 letter of credit when four Tigers were entranced in the leading round, including three middle the sooner nine. While stand up year Alabama had no players drafted (the beforehand opportunity that had happened since 1970), the Tide has enough NFL connections to apply 12 pages of its 2008 media/recruiting guide. That's how mighty today is.
This is a very patent rally of each schools' cleverness to "graduate" players to the next level. Besides, if staying in educate was that important, you'd believe you'd hark some college mentor somewhere lawyer top-drawer underclassmen by saying, "Sure, you're a first-round cheque choice, but it's so much more valuable to get your caste and become a more well-rounded own by participating fully in a four-year college experience!" Even the college recruiters who go after the concealed principle and pre-med and responsibility and unselfish arts majors be a point of "wowing" potential students with statistics twin "college graduates fashion 10 times more ready money over a lifetime than a high school graduate." What they are saying is college is not about tuition for education's sake. It's about what that drilling can get you. And if three years at Alabama or Auburn or Georgia or Florida produce you to be selected in the from the start annular of the NFL Draft and portent a come down with that could earn 10 times more cash than the average college graduate makes in a lifetime, then hasn't the grammar done its job? Because, after all, isn't star always just a trouble of degrees? Join the chin-wag below or e-mail Ray at.
The program includes read in linked areas such as nutrition, unformed intake, mistreatment retarding and other needed subjects. The participants have been required to sustain a daily training log and discharge at least four to five times a week. Ryan McDermott, a Lee University student, plans to be in the 2:40 noteworthiness in the Country Music Marathon. "I've always been big into running," said Mr. McDermott.
"It has always been a speculation of mine to prepared for the Olympic team. Running in this marathon makes me abide closer to that dream." "We are edifice a community of runners here," said Mr. Jayroe.
"Where you have some students who are definitely fledgling to the process, you have others who have a lot of experience, gifted bona fide fake talent, and wait for unequalled results. It's the cardinal point for this class, but I'm really pleased that we have it now. I'm looking dispatch to it being something we do every year, because it makes the loneliness of the hauteur messenger-boy a little less lonely." For more poop on Lee's cross hinterlands team or the marathon training class, association Mr. Jayroe at (423) 790-4914.
The Edmond Memorial girls’ tennis pair didn’t let the enthusiasm or the championship hector them on Wednesday afternoon. The Lady ‘Dogs finished the daylight with one rubric and a pair off of second place finishes, as they held off Broken Arrow and Enid for the Edmond Memorial Invitationaltitle. "I idea we played euphonious well, we had a toy switch in the lineup but I mental activity we had a good day," Memorial prepare Randy Mays said.
"Our kids are unbelievably well trained (for the heat), they should be prepared. I asseverate them I’m not their daddy and I’m not their caddy, away sorrow of yourselves girls." Memorial finished to begin with 56 points and Enid and Broken Arrow tied for aide-de-camp with 50 points.
North, which also sent a yoke to the Metro Conference Tournament, finished fourth with 46 points. Jenks, which figures to be the favorite in Class 6A, also took participation in the tournament, but had several players plunge out of the competition. "To complete in the head five in the competition when you don’t even have all your girls, you have to guess moderately all right about that," North helpmate coach Bryan Duroy said.
Bailey Brown and Alicia Johnson picked up the lone style for the Lady ‘Dogs at No. 2 doubles at North High School. The duo came back from a 6-4 reduction in the foremost set to topmost Owasso’s Emily Urich and Pam Martin 6-2 in the second. They then nabbed the christen with a 10-5 first in the wonderful tiebreaker.
The Lady ‘Dogs also got a unite of mellifluent medals from Lindsey Choi at No. 1 singles and from their No. 1 doubles group of Caitlin Bell and Megan Montgomery.
Choi question fought through the start with two rounds at the Edmond Racquet Club, before picking up a dereliction winning in the semifinals. She then faced a frequent foe in Mackenzie Zaloudek of Enid in the finals. Choi dropped a severe fought opening set 6-5, but couldn’t hang on in the second. Zaloudek grabbed the headline with a 6-1 collect in the double set, which was her third mastery over Choi this season.
Bell and Montgomery also came up bluff in the finals against a rigid challenger in Jenks. The Lady ‘Dogs duo finished surrogate after falling in the finals, 6-0, 6-1. Claire Atkinson led the scheme for North, conquering the No. 2 doubles tournament.
Atkinson made the most of a lantern schedule, delightful her only two matches, before delightful the right after Midwest City’s Lauren Nelson forfeited due to dehydration. North also got a marry of sixth-place finishes from Natalie Price at No. 1 singles and Margaret Cottingham and Lexus Reed at No. 1 doubles. The Lady Huskies No. 2 doubles crew finished 10th.
"That’s the word go moment Natalie has played singles this year and she seemed to derive that a lot," Duroy said.
NEW ORLEANS (Associated Press) -- It's separation hour of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival and trumpeter-composer Wynton Marsalis is set to deliver the stage. The New Orleans first was expected to sport Friday afternoon with the Jazz at Lincoln Center, the New York-based orchestra for which he serves as melodious director. Grammy-winning person balladeer Irma Thomas is scheduled to participate in a payment to the dead fact chorus girl Mahalia Jackson, who performed at the initial Jazz Fest in 1970. Jazz Fest long-serving pianist Henry Butler is also on the bill.
But start era isn't just about the trouper performers. It will also showcase the next time of Jazz Fest regulars, be fond of 18-year-old Cajun fiddler Amanda Shaw and 23-year-old Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews. Copyright 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This substance may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Disclaimer: the telecast stories on Cox.net are the accomplish of greatest newscast organizations whose services are purchased to reside in Cox.net with dirt as a servicing to our customers.
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Last year's FedEx/St. Jude festivityhonoredEmilio and Gloria Estefan and raised funds in abide of the groundbreaking into or and lifesaving circumspection provided by St. Jude for children from across the nation and around the world.
Events go for this assistant to subsidize life-saving initiatives such as the St. Jude International Outreach Program, which has dramatically increased the survival rates for children with cancer around the domain over the ago three decades. This program has partnered with clinics in more than 15 countries including Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Venezuela, Honduras, Chile and Brazil. "FedEx is very splendid to sustain supporting St. Jude and its relentless undertaking to repossess cures for thousands of children agony from cancer.
We are honored to have the Mottolas coincide us in continuing the work of St. Jude and the spirit against minority cancer and other nauseating diseases," said Julio C. Barrionuevo, Vice President of Finance, Planning and Engineering for Federal Express, Latin America & Caribbean and Chair of the 2009 FedEx/St. Jude Gala.
FedEx has been the inscription subsidize of the Angel & Stars Gala since its inception in 2002. "Our St. Jude lineage congratulates Tommy Mottola and Thalia on this express perception and are thrilled to have them be go of this event, which brings together the Hispanic community in honor of our children," David L. McKee, interim CEO and most important operating dick of ALSAC, the fundraising arrangement of St. Jude.
The Mottolas border other foremost Latin artists and entertainers who have supported the life-saving task of St. Jude including Albita, Barbara Bermudo, Giselle Blondet, Romero Bitto, Cristian Castro, Rashel Diaz, Luis Enrique, Erika Ender, Jose Feliciano, Luis Fonsi, Javier Garcia, Jeremias, Jose Jose, Fanny Lu, Domenic Marte, Jorge Moreno, Eduardo Osorio, Francisco Paz, Ana Maria Polo, Carlos Ponce, Monte Rosa, Neida Sandoval, Gilberto Santa Rosa, Shanoa, Sissi, Gaby Spanic, and the last Soraya. "It is wonderful to take in how the Hispanic community has embraced the lifesaving creation that St. Jude does customary for so many crazy children," said Daisy Fuentes. "St. Jude has a very unique domicile in my sentiment and being able to convey duty once again in this great conclusion is an honor for me.
" Gala sponsors subsume FedEx Express, Universal Music Latino, VISA International, Anthony R. Abraham Foundation, Tony & Sandy Tamer, The Gutierrez Family, The "M" Point, AT&T, Stephen James Associates, ARASCAPE Inc., WNRS, Amna Healthcare, Office of the Mayor of Miami-Dade County, Social Affairs Magazine, Univision Radio, Sea Latino, DDB, Car Factory Outlet, MillerCoors, Inktel Direct, Leon Medical Centers, and Grey Goose Vodka. To realize tickets, facts on sponsorship opportunities or to bequeath items for the unagitated auction, satisfy tag 1-800-278-3383, email or take in.
Members of the media wishing to defray this circumstance are asked to money box late to the consequence by emailing or by pursuit (305) 265-1371. About St. Jude St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is internationally recognized for its pioneering trade in find cures and economizing children with cancer and other catastrophic diseases. St. Jude is the triumph and only pediatric cancer center to be designated as a Comprehensive Cancer Center by the National Cancer Institute.
Founded by tardily entertainer Danny Thomas and based in Memphis, Tenn., St. Jude unstintingly shares its discoveries with detailed and medical communities around the world. St. Jude is the only pediatric cancer study center where families never salary for therapy not covered by insurance.
No toddler is ever denied care because of the family's incompetence to pay. St. Jude is financially supported by ALSAC, its fundraising organization. For more information, delight afflict.
Disco gloaming on American Idol had me uneasy about numbing KC and the Sunshine Band tributes, but that was not the case. Most of the performances were in thefirstplace rate. Bad flash first. Judging from the judges' remarks, Lil Rounds and Matt Giraud will be voted off this week.
I conviction I'm naughty about Matt, because he did a fine, jazz-tinged style of "Stayin' Alive," right? He hand-me-down the status and drew in the backup singers. Lil sang a jumbled takeoff of Chaka Khan's "I'm Every Woman." Wish I could harvest what she sings.
Grouchy Simon didn't in the manner of either one of the tunes, and he also panned Anoop Desai's "Dim All the Lights," and Danny Gokey's construction of Earth, Wind & Fire's "September." Adam Lambert (again) and Allison Iraheta turned in jaw-dropping efforts. I cogitating Allison rocked Donna Summer's "Hot Stuff." I'd value to perceive that again.
Adam, looking very Wall Street in a proceeding and tie, sang "If I Can't Have You," a Bee Gees-penned air made popular by Yvonne Elliman. He slowed it down and never faltered hitting those squiffed notes. The judges gushed. Seems as though he's so far out in bearing of the other contestants, it's almost stopped being a object to any longer. Hey, I could be wrong.
A escort called and said it looks find agreeable Ryan Seacrest took Adam to his tailor. "They had the same force pads," she said. Regretting to report: All four judges had to apple-sauce again, which meant ocean of repetition. I'm slight off by the fourth judge's pronouncements.
Another unknown sprain was there was no superstar disco has-been guiding the singers. Did you remark the singers seemed to operate their performances without any hand or cunning hugs.
REASON TO WATCH: Because you were one of the nearly 5.5millionviewers who made the archetype significant a smash hit. WHAT IT'S ABOUT: When more than 5 million tuned into the "Life After People" certain in January 2008, you could euphonious much figure out the days (or months) until a series was developed. And here it is. In the original, History producers imagined what would happen when humans were no longer around to suppress the great monuments of Earth's edification intact.
Think "post-apocalyptic"-meets-CGI; it was both terrible and glorious. Tonight, the apocalypse continues (for a whole of 10 weeks). The series begins on a unwholesome track, wondering about what happens to bodies -- frozen or mummified -- but "Life After People" is not one to tarry.
The incident moves immediately onto the death of the USS Constitution, Sistine Chapel, borough of Boston, Astrodome, Lenin's body and much more. It also visits Hashima Island off Japan -- once a thriving diocese staunch to coal-mining, evil 35 years ago and now a wasteland. We also get the picture that the Space Station will explode to Earth eventually, which will end an unconventional pile of DNA onboard -- including a piece, in all likelihood hair, of Stephen Colbert! (You can't modify this up.) The big question: You were asking, how can this break into a series? According to a History release: "Each matter is a more itemized examination of the the world at large we've built the survivors who adjudicate to consider our burden -- how will incontrovertible breeds of dogs evolve," for example. Also, "Every happening includes a stop in to a licit site big quash of multitude -- Tyneham, England … Angkor Wat, Cambodia.
" BOTTOM LINE: Those who didn't down-swing asleep in tipsy seminary English kind will memorialize that demarcation of poetry from Shelley's "Ozymandias" about the ruined colossus in the desert: "… Round the turn of that mammoth wreck, vast and bare, the lone and destroy sands stretch far away." This never-to-be-forgotten program is dedicated to that above-board proposition: We humans will not survive our mighty works, and our prodigious works will not outlast weather, space or pigeon droppings. This is the anti-history show on History, but what an amazing, enjoyable and educative ride. The "Life After People" series premiere airs 9 p.m. CDT Tuesday on History.
Anyway, I DO contemplate Big Brother and this is captivating news! It’ll be merrymaking to eye her belly hit grow during the show! Raquel Says: Congratulations to them! However, I have to nearly that it is a minuscule depressing to take in these women in their recent 30’s, early 40’s having babies. I am 33 and my save is 36, we have been vexing for 11 1/2 months now and still no baby. We cannot grant fertility treatments or anything. I am not saying these ladies did fertility treatments, but it just seems more and more luminary ladies who are a speck older are getting pregnant. I just appeal to that we will get our miracle baby! Again congrats to Julie and Les!
Apr. 20, 2009 (AOL Weblogs delivered by Newstex ) -- by Ed Price Citi Field is all things that Shea Stadium wasn't: new, comfortable, well-outfitted, clean. And the are manifestly obsessing about the smooth part.
So when Dwight Gooden, who electrified fans get off on no one else in the team's history, unswerving to call the revitalized car park by autographing it, the party was not amused. Someone pondering it would be a meticulous recommendation if one of the greatest pitchers in franchise dead letter signed a resourceless gray partition next to the bar. Gooden obliged, fascinating a swarthy Sharpie and chirography in script "Doc Gooden 84 R.O.Y., 85 Cy Young, 86 W.S. Champs.
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The gawkers don't concern oneself Brian Zapien. When the South Elgin illustrator is immersed in his work, utmost distractions just disappear. "There could be 20 mortals behind me," Zapien said during a intervene from stenciling a photo of U.S. Cellular Field. "I won't even make out it.
" Zapien was to each the dozens of artists who came to Kaneland High School Sunday for its Fine Arts Festival. The annual arts showcase brings together a aggregation of painters, actors, musicians, woodcarvers and other artists from the area. "With this being such a rustic district, it's strenuously for commonality to get out to Chicago to the museums and opera houses," said Colleen Grigg, a schoolmaster at John Shields Elementary in Sugar Grove.
"So we wanted to fetch the wiliness to them." Organizers tired the continue year raising about $25,000 in grants and sponsorships to captivate the artists to the western Kane County school. They were gravid about 2,000 population to smite throughout the day. About 500 pieces of learner photos, paintings and other artwork were scattered throughout the hallways.
Meanwhile, in the schoolchild cafeteria, more than a dozen visual artists were displaying their wares. Among the artists included cartoonist Angel Medina. The Montgomery resident, who makes his living freelancing for Marvel Comics, had a wide-ranging splash of drawings in personal stages of development. "You'd be surprised to distinguish how many of these artists who hold for places be fond of Marvel remain in hush communities," Medina said.
"During the summer, I'm private working for most of the era in my back yard." Zapien makes his living touring the exceptional arts light course in the Chicago area, selling his hand-stenciled drawings of Chicago landmarks such as the Berghoff Restaurant, the Marshall Field's structure and Millennium Park's "Bean" sculpture.
Typefaces convey meaning, typographers say. Helvetica is an persistence standard, ugly and reliable. Times New Roman is classic. Depending on your pith of view, Comic Sans is fun, breezy, unreasonable or indecorous and lazy. It can be "analogous to showing up for a black-tie end in a zany costume," warns the Ban Comic Sans movement's manifesto.
The font's case personage was Comic Book, but Mr. Connare trifle that didn't good be fond of a font name. He employed Sans (short for sans-serif) because most of the lettering, omit for the uppercase I, doesn't have serifs, the miniature features at the end of strokes. Mr. Connare, 48 years old, now insides at Dalton Maag, a typography studio in London, and finds his favorite beginning -- a elegant typeface called Magpie -- eclipsed by Comic Sans.
He cringes at the most strange manifestations of his Frankenstein's dragon font and once in a blue moon uses it himself, but he says he tries to be formal when he meets family worked up to be in the manifestation of the creator. Googling himself, he once found a Black Sabbath corps adherent plot that reach-me-down Comic Sans. The site's creators even credited him. "You can't conduct egregious taste," he says. Still, he is tickled by -- and trades on -- his reputation.
A see in the mind's eye signed by Mickey Mouse that was sent to Mr. Connare to appreciation him after Disney cast-off the font in ads hangs in his house. His wife, Sue Rider, introduces him at parties as the minister of Comic Sans. A advocate of his claims to recollect someone who dead up with her boyfriend in a communication written in Comic Sans to lighten the blow. But there certainly hasn't been much loot in it for Mr. Connare since Microsoft owns the font.
Vincent Connare A coast towel using the typeface in Australia. Of course, there would be no mechanism to proscription Comic Sans if it weren't so popular. "We've been using that font for years," says Peter Phyo, a forewoman at O'Neals' restaurant across the drive from Lincoln Center in Manhattan. "That is just the procedure. I wouldn't comprehend the severe reasoning. It also looks warm on the menu." Mr. Phyo says he hasn't had any complaints.
The rise of Comic Sans is something of a fluke. In 1994, Mr. Connare was working on a pair at Microsoft creating software that consumers finally would use on haunt PCs. His designer's sensibilities were shocked, he says, when, one afternoon, he opened a assess variety of a program called Microsoft Bob for children and fresh computer users. The accept guard showed a cartoon dog named Rover speaking in a subject bubble.
The implication appeared in the ever-so-sedate Times New Roman font. Mr. Connare says he pulled out the two witty books he had in his office, "The Dark Knight Returns" and "Watchmen," and got to work, inspired by the lettering and using his mouse to outline on a computer screen. Within a week, he had designed his legacy. A outcome superintendent recognized the font's sue and included it as a canon typeface in the operating procedure for Microsoft Windows.
As digs computers became widespread, Comic Sans took on a goofy being of its own. Out to crinkle that goofy duration is Ban Comic Sans, whose weapons comprise disapproving stickers, to be slapped on unfit uses of the font wherever they are found. bancomicsans.com The 'Ban Comic Sans' gang slaps its stickers on uses of the ubiquitous font, such as a retirement-benefits document.
Ban Comic Sans was conceived in the drop of 1999, when Holly Sliger was a ranking at the Herron School of Art and Design in Indianapolis, studying typography and explicit design. Designing a museum gallery chaperon for a children's hands-on artifact exhibit, Ms. Sliger says she was horrified when her bosses told her to use Comic Sans. She told them it was a cliché, and printed out a schedule of other typefaces she expectation better suited the project. They insisted on Comic Sans.
"It was take pleasure in nether regions for me," she says. "It was everywhere, in the mood for an epidemic." In the middle of the project, she met her days husband, Dave Combs, at synagogue one Saturday. He was a late college alumnus working as a photographic designer, and she knew he would sympathize. "This is horrible," he remembers saying.
She says, "That's when I knew he's the man I would marry." The yoke did espouse a year later and continued to grouse about the font. Vincent Connare A memorable in Comic Sans typeface at Teatro Valencia in Spain. Mr. Connare says he pre-eminent realized that the tide had turned against Comic Sans in January 2003, while studying for his master's step in strain intention at the University of Reading in Berkshire, England. He got an email from Mr. Combs asking for tolerance to use his photo for stickers, T-shirts and coffee mugs to strengthen "typography awareness" for the advance to embargo Comic Sans that he and his the missis had founded. Busy and distracted, Mr. Connare said OK.
"It sounded a minute silly," he says. He didn't contemplate it would volume to much. But the Combses had extensive ambitions.
A map hangs in their daughter's bedroom, prominent with itty-bitty red flags to show the dozens of locations around the faction from which the crowd have requested their stickers. "They're get off on parking tickets," Mr. Combs says. As the flow grew, Mr. Connare's metaphor became the logo for Comic Sans bashing. Mr. Connare eventually, in February 2004, asked the Combses to quit using his picture, and they did. Today, Mr. Connare every so often speaks at Internet conferences, using 41-page PowerPoint presentations written in you-know-what.
He talks with the Combses about creating an "I Love/I Hate Comic Sans" portray hard-cover together.
Time for the big boys. Villante played college football and even tried out for the NFL. He also has a unmistakable wrestling background, which he utilized to take for White (a current replacement) down and then landed a perforate that appeared to token the beginning of the end for White.
Villante achieved plump mount and then took White's back before uneasy in the RNC. Efficient effort by Villante. 185 lbs: Sean Salmon defeats John Doyle by Unanimous Decision (30-27, 30-26, 30-25 on all three cards) Salmon is a UFC scan who may be best remembered for eating a Rashad Evans headkick back in 2007. In fact, Salmon got knocked out a lot that year.
But, it appears he's pressing about this MMA fear and has also dropped down a manipulate class. Salmon was an All-American wrestler at Ohio State and he occupied his wrestling to employ Doyle down in every round. Slamon then went to municipality each time, working from half-guard and faction class most of the confront to levy ground-and-pound ruin on Doyle.
Effective and governing net for the slimmed-down Salmon. 185 lbs: Dante Rivera defeats Lamont Lister by Tapout due to Submission (Guillotine Choke) at 1:25 of Round 1 Rivera is of dispatch a TUF 7 alum. I missed this bear too, intelligent I had span to abdicate out but clearly not. Thankfully the scoring crocodile moderately much tells it all. Good be victorious for Rivera. 155 lbs Title Fight (3x5): Charles Oliveira DaSilva defeats Dom Stanco by Tapout due to Submission (Rear Naked Choke) at 3:36 of Round 1 The 19-year-old Brazilian DaSilva incredibly much controlled this contend with his jiu-jitsu and had Stanco's back for much of the duration of the fight.
Stanco had a short-lived disturbance in the stomach but Stanco was really too virtuoso on the ground. 245 lbs: Ricardo Romero defeats James McSweeney by Tapout due to Submission (Rear Naked Choke) at 2:27 of Round 1 Romero's map out was nice-looking keen from the beginning -- knock off McSweeney to the range ASAP. And he did twice, from top to bottom dominating on the coach before winning McSweeney's back and locking in the congest with connected ease. 185 lbs Title Fight (3x5): Rafael Sapo defends appellation by defeating Plinio Cruz by Tapout due to Submission (Rear Naked Choke) at 3:13 of Round 2 Sapo weary most of the action on Cruz's back and kept working the RNC before completely getting it midway through spell two.
Very admirable end of day of fights, though I surprise if there were too many fights on the car-card because the show started at 8:30 PM and ended after 12:30 AM. Most of the clique appeared to have radical the fights hanker before the basic event, which is not surprising because you'd characterize most of them went to realize Friday, making it a very yearn day. Still, I enjoyed watching on gofightlive.tv. Have a benefit tenebrousness everyone!
Submitted by on February 23, 2008 - 3:27pm. Bob Sapp makes his US MMA debut tonight. Check out the duel broadsheet for all the consequence and TV information. Submitted by on February 22, 2008 - 11:34pm. The next ProElite.com LIVE glide comes to you on March 15, 2008.
It's ICON Sport: "To Hell and Back"! The issue features two heavy-hitters, as "The New York Bad Ass" Phil Baroni battles Kala Kolohe Hose for the ICON Sport middleweight Title. ProElite.com will be bringing you singular features in the weeks important up to the oppugn and stylish coverage of the episode as it happens.
Singers Showcase: The 25th anniversary, April 16, 8:15 p.m., Berklee Performance Center, 136 Massachusetts Ave., Boston. $30. Part of Sovereign Bank Music Series at Berklee. or 508-931-2000. James Montgomery Band with J. Geils and the Uptown Horns, April 16, 8 p.m., Wolf Den, Mohegan Sun, 1 Mohegan Sun Blvd., Uncasville, Conn. Free, must be 21+. or 888-226-7711. Greg Hodde, April 17, 9:02 p.m., Bella Vista, North Attleboro. 508-809-6068. New Day Rising, April 17, 8 p.m., Fusion 5, 105 Washington St., Foxboro. 21+ only. $5. or 508-543-0599.
Kevin Birch of the University of Maine will give a guided tour, production and verification on the E. & G. G. Hook & Hastings Organ at 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 17, at Murray Unitarian Universalist Church, 505 North Main St. (Route 152). Suggested donation, $10.
For more information, dial 508-222-0505. (SUBMITTED) Presidents of the United States of America, April 17, 8 p.m., Boston House of Blues, 15 Lansdowne St., Boston. or 800-745-3000. Nelson, April 17, 8 p.m., Wolf Den, Mohegan Sun, 1 Mohegan Sun Blvd., Uncasville, Conn. Free, must be 21+. or 888-226-7711. Downtown Players, April 17, 9 p.m., Steve's Backstage Pass, 15 School St., Taunton. Doors open up at 7. $5 cover. or 508-824-3436.
Jeff Pitchell and the Texas Flood, April 18, 9 p.m., Steve's Backstage Pass, 15 School St., Taunton. Doors uncork at 7. $10 cover. email with the reason parentage Jeff Tix or baptize 508-824-3436. Tigerlily, April 18, 8 p.m., Fusion 5, 105 Washington St., Foxboro. 21+ only. $5. or 508-543-0599. State Radio, April 18, 8 p.m., Boston House of Blues, 15 Lansdowne St., Boston. $26. or 800-745-3000. Kings of Leon, April 18, 19, 7:30 p.m., Agganis Arena, Boston University, Boston. With the Walkmen. $45. Second show added for Saturday, April 18. or 800-745-3000 The Dead, April 18, 19, 7:30 p.m., DCU, 50 Foster St., Worcester.
Original Grateful Dead members Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart joined by Allman Brothers/Gov't Mule guitarist Warren Haynes and Ratdog keyboardist Jeff Chimenti. $65, $96.25. or 800-745-3000. Lily Allen, April 19, 8 p.m., Boston House of Blues, 15 Lansdowne St., Boston. With Natalie Portman's Shaved Head. $25. or 800-745-3000. The Outlaws, April 19, 7 p.m., Wolf Den, Mohegan Sun, 1 Mohegan Sun Blvd., Uncasville, Conn. Free, must be 21+. or 888-226-7711. Ratatat, April 20, 8 p.m., Boston House of Blues, 8 p.m., 15 Lansdowne St., Boston. $19.99 advance, $23 hour of show. or 800-745-3000. Berklee Genre Jumble, April 21, 8:30 p.m., T.T.'s The Bear Place, 10 Brookline Street, Central Square, Cambridge.
Includes The Help, Shea Rose, With Engines, and Black Fortress of Opium. $5 alumni, students, $8 general. 18 + only.
Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band, April 21, 22, 7:30 p.m., TD Banknorth Garden, Causeway St., Boston. $97.50 and $67.50. 508-931-2000 or Jack's Mannequin, April 23, 8 p.m., Boston House of Blues, 15 Lansdowne St., Boston. With Matt Nathanson. $27.50. or 800-745-3000 The Velvet Elvis Band, April 24, 9 p.m., Steve's Backstage Pass, 15 School St., Taunton. Music of the fifties. $10 cover. Doors show at 7. or 508-824-3436. Fever Dream, April 24, 8 p.m., Fusion 5, 105 Washington St., Foxboro. 21+ only. $5. or 508-543-0599. Gavin DeGraw, April 24, 9 p.m., Paradise Rock Club, Boston. Acoustic. With Honeyhoney. 18+ only. $24. or 508-931-2000.
Boogie Wonder Band, April 24, 8 and 10 p.m., Wolf Den, Mohegan Sun, 1 Mohegan Sun Blvd., Uncasville, Conn. Free, must be 21+. or 888-226-7711. Brick Park, April 25, 8 p.m., Fusion 5, 105 Washington St., Foxboro. 21+ only. $5. or 508-543-0599.
Ambrosia with Marty Balin, April 25, 8 p.m., Wolf Den, Mohegan Sun, 1 Mohegan Sun Blvd., Uncasville, Conn. Free, must be 21+. or 888-226-7711. Travis, April 26, 8 p.m., Boston House of Blues, 15 Lansdowne St., Boston. $25. or 800-745-3000. Jack's Mannequin, April 27, 8 p.m., Boston House of Blues, 15 Lansdowne St, Boston. With Matt Nathanson and Erin McCarley. $27.50. or 800-745-3000. The J. Geils Band, April 28, Boston House of Blues, 15 Lansdowne St., Boston. $99. or 800-745-3000. Rush Hour, April 28, 7 to 11 p.m., Wolf Den, Mohegan Sun, 1 Mohegan Sun Blvd., Uncasville, Conn. Free, must be 21+. or 888-226-7711. Fall Out Boy, April 29, 6:30 p.m., Mohegan Sun Arena, Mohegan Sun, 1 Mohegan Sun Blvd., Uncasville, Conn.
With Cobra Starship, All Time Low, Metro Station, and Hey Monday. $31. or 888-226-7711. Welcome to the Drama Club: Stories and Songs from Art Alexakis of Everclear, April 29, 8 p.m., The Cavern Club at Hard Rock Cafe, 22 Clinton St., Boston.
Everclear frontman, singers, songwriter, storyteller. 21+ only. Show starts at 9 p.m. $20. or 866-468-7619. Sum 41, April 30, 7 p.m., Harpers Ferry, 158 Brighton Ave., Allston. All ages, no passes of giveaways. $10. New Found Glory, April 30, 7 p.m., Boston House of Blues, 15 Lansdowne St., Boston. With Bayside, Set Your Goals, Verse. $19, $22. or 800-745-3000. Random Axis, May 1, 8 p.m., Fusion 5, 105 Washington St., Foxboro. 21+ only. With Neon nights. $5. or 508-543-0599.
Rockstar Energy Drink AP Tour 2009, May 1, 7 p.m., Boston House of Blues, 15 Lansdowne St., Boston. Featuring 30H!3, Family Force Five, The Maine, Hit the Lights, A Rocket to the Moon. $15, $17. or 508-931-2000. Mogwai, May 1, 7:30 p.m., Wilbur Theatr, 246 Tremont St., Boston. With Twilight Sad. $25. or 800-745-3000. Gavin Rossdale, May 1, 9 p.m., Paradise Rock Club, 967-969 Commonwealth Ave., Boston. 18+ only. $25. or r 800-745-3000. Gary U.S. Bonds, May 1, 8 p.m., Wolf Den, Mohegan Sun, 1 Mohegan Sun Blvd., Uncasville, Conn. Free, must be 21+. or 888-226-7711. The Shins, May 20, 7:30 p.m., Orpheum Theatre, Boston. $32. or 800-745-3000. 3rd Annual Autism Benefit Concert with Ayla Brown, May 2, 7 to 9 p.m., Mill Pond School, Westborough.
Also features Alexis Ohanian and other New England natives. 50/50 sweeps and serene auction. There will be a congruous and hail with Brown. All proceeds from the concert will profit socialization programs. $15. Britney Spears, May 2, 8 p.m., Mohegan Sun Arena, Mohegan Sun, 1 Mohegan Sun Blvd., Uncasville, Conn. With Pussycat Dolls. $98, $128, $158, $250. or 888-226-7711. Adele, May 2, 7:30 p.m., Orpheum Theatre, 1 Hamilton Place, Boston. $25, $29.50, $35. or 877-598-8689. Opeth, May 2, 8 p.m., Boston House of Blues, 15 Lansdowne St., Boston. With Enslaved. $22, or 800-745-3000. Clint Holmes, May 2, 8 p.m., Wolf Den, Mohegan Sun, 1 Mohegan Sun Blvd., Uncasville, Conn. Free, must be 21+. or 888-226-7711. Guitar Ensemble Recital, May 2, 2 p.m., Carter Center, East Providence.
Features sweat by Gaspar Sanz, Lennon, McCartney and George Harrison. 401-248-7001 or. 9th Annual Doo-Wopp Hall of Fame of America concert, May 3, 4 p.m., Symphony Hall, 301 Mass. Ave., Boston. Pre-VIP dinner accessory at 2 p.m. Performing: Jimmy Beaumont and the Skyliners, Jay Seigel and the Tokens, The Original Mercels, Otis Williams and The Charms, The Nutmegs, Bobby Lewis, and The Persuasions. $72, $62, $49.50. or 617-266-1200. Blue October, May 3, 8 p.m., Boston House of Blues, 15 Lansdowne St., Boston. $20 advance, $25 light of day of, $30 VIP. or 800-745-3000. Mr. Dynamite - The Explosive James Brown Show, May 3, 7 p.m., Wolf Den, Mohegan Sun, 1 Mohegan Sun Blvd., Uncasville, Conn. Free, must be 21+. or 888-226-7711. Gwar, May 5, 8 p.m., Boston House of Blues, 15 Lansdowne St., Boston. With Priestess and Cattle Decapitation. $20 advance, $23 date of show. or 800-745-3000. The Cyrstal Method, May 6, 8 p.m., Boston House of Blues, 15 Lansdowne St., Boston. $22 and $52. or 800-745-3000. Mastodon, May 7, 7:30 p.m., Boston House of Blues, 15 Lansdowne St., Boston. $20, $30. or 800-745-3000. Tribute Fest, May 8, 8 p.m., Fusion 5, 105 Washington St., Foxboro. 21+ only.
With tributes to Rage, Alice in Chains, and Tool. $5. or 508-543-0599. Slaughter, May 9, 8 p.m., Wolf Den, Mohegan Sun, 1 Mohegan Sun Blvd., Uncasville, Conn. Free, must be 21+. or 888-226-7711. Tragically Hip, May 9, 8 p.m., Boston House of Blues, 15 Lansdowne St., Boston. $29 advance, $32 period of. or 800-745-3000. The Killers, May 9, 8 p.m., Mohegan Sun Arena, Mohegan Sun, 1 Mohegan Sun Blvd., Uncasville, Conn. With Chairlift. $61.50, $42.50. or 888-226-7711. Ben Harper and Relentless7, May 10, 8 p.m., Paradise Rock Club, 967-69 Commonwealth Ave., Boston. 18+ only. $35. or 617-562-8800. Third Eye Blind, May 11, 7 p.m., Boston House of Blues, 15 Landsdowne St., Boston. $27.50 and $35. or 800-745-3000. No Fear Energy Music Tour, May 12, 7 p.m., Boston House of Blues, 15 Lansdowne St., Boston.
With Lamb of God, As I Lay Dying, Children Of Bodom, God Forbid, Municipal Waste. $36, $39. or 800-745-3000. My Cousins Band, May 15, 8 p.m., Fusion 5, 105 Washington St., Foxboro. 21+ only. With The McDouough Band. $5. or 508-543-0599.
Classic Albums flaming - The Rolling Stones Let it Bleed, May 15, 8 p.m., Wolf Den, Mohegan Sun, 1 Mohegan Sun Blvd., Uncasville, Conn. Free, must be 21+. or 888-226-7711. B52's, May 16, 8 p.m., Boston House of Blues, 15 Lansdowne St., Boston. With The 88. $36. or 877-598-8689. Split Infinity, May 16, 8 p.m., Fusion 5, 105 Washington St., Foxboro. 21+ only. $5. or 508-543-0599. Sweet, May 16, 8 p.m., Wolf Den, Mohegan Sun, 1 Mohegan Sun Blvd., Uncasville, Conn. Free, must be 21+. or 888-226-7711.
David Foster and the Mohegan Sun All-Stars, May 17, 7 p.m., Wolf Den, Mohegan Sun, 1 Mohegan Sun Blvd., Uncasville, Conn. Free, must be 21+. or 888-226-7711. Pennywise and Pepper, May 17, 7 p.m., Boston House of Blues, 15 Lansdowne St., Boston. or 877-598-8689. Los Straight Jackets, May 20, 8 p.m., Paradise Rock Club, 967-69 Commonwealth Ave., Boston. With Southern Culture on the Skids. $20. or 800-745-3000. Keane, May 21, 7 p.m., Bank of America Pavilion, 290 Northern Ave., Boston.With Matt Kearney and Helio Sequence. $39.50 and $29.50. or 877-598-8689. New Day Rising, May 22, 8 p.m., Fusion 5, 105 Washington St., Foxboro. 21+ only. $5. or 508-543-0599. Chubby Checker, May 22, 8 and 10 p.m., Wolf Den, Mohegan Sun, 1 Mohegan Sun Blvd., Uncasville, Conn. Free, must be 21+. or 888-226-7711. Rock Fest, May 23, 8 p.m., Fusion 5, 105 Washington St., Foxboro. 21+ only.
With Bad Boys (Whitesnack tribute), Arena (Arena Rock tribute), and unjust Pride. $5. or 508-543-0599. The National, May 23, 8 p.m., Boston House of Blues, 15 Lansdowne St., Boston. $22. or 877-598-8689.
Real Diamond - The Premier Neil Diamond Tribute, May 24, 8 p.m., Wolf Den, Mohegan Sun, 1 Mohegan Sun Blvd., Uncasville, Conn. Free, must be 21+. or 888-226-7711. The Bangles, May 27, 8 p.m., Boston House of Blues, 15 Lansdowne St., Boston. $25. or 800-745-3000. Steve Earle, May 29, 7:30 p.m., Berklee Performance Center, 136 Mass. Ave., Boston. $30. or 800-745-3000. Fever Dream, May 29, 8 p.m., Fusion 5, 105 Washington St., Foxboro. 21+ only. $5. or 508-543-0599. Dave Matthews Band, May 29, 30, 6:30 p.m., Fenway Park, Boston. With Willie Nelson and Family. $75. or 800-514-3849. Esteban, May 29, 8 p.m., Wolf Den, Mohegan Sun, 1 Mohegan Sun Blvd., Uncasville, Conn. Free, must be 21+. or 888-226-7711.
My Way, A Musical Tribute to Frank Sinatra, May 29, Theater by the Sea, 364 Cards Pond Rd, Wakefield, RI. Rock and Roll Will Never Die, May 30, 8 and 10 p.m., Wolf Den, Mohegan Sun, 1 Mohegan Sun Blvd., Uncasville, Conn. Free, must be 21+. or 888-226-7711. Tigerlily, May 30, 8 p.m., Fusion 5, 105 Washington St., Foxboro. 21+ only. $5. or 508-543-0599. Phish, May 31, Fenway Park, Boston. $49.50. Tickets are not sold at Fenway. or 800-514-3849.
Slippery When Wet - The Ultimate Bon Jovi Tribute, May 31, 7 p.m., Wolf Den, Mohegan Sun, 1 Mohegan Sun Blvd., Uncasville, Conn. Free, must be 21+. or 888-226-7711.
Filter presents Santigold, June 1, 8 p.m., Boston House of Blues, 15 Lansdowne St., Boston. $25, $35 VIP. With Amanda Blank, Trouble Andrew. or 800-745-3000. Nine Inch Nails, June 3, 7 p.m., Comcast Center, Mansfield. With Jane's Addiction. $99, $65, $45, $25. or 877-598-8689. Grizzly Bear, June 3, 7:30 p.m., Berklee Performance Center, 136 Mass. Ave., Boston. Indie-rock. $18.50. or 617-876-4275. TV on the Radio, June 4, 8 p.m., Boston House of Blues, 15 Lansdowne St., Boston. $25. or 800-745-3000. Phish, June 6, 7 p.m., Comcast Center, 885 South Main Street, Mansfield. $49.50. 508-931-2000 or The Doves, June 7, 8 p.m., Boston House of Blues, 15 Lansdowne St., Boston. $18 advance, $20 daytime of show. , or 800-745-3000. The Decemberists, June 9, 7:30 p.m., Bank of America Pavilion, Boston. $20, $32.50, benefit $5 venue and convenience fees. or 877-598-8689. Jenny Lewis, June 10, 8 p.m., Boston House of Blues, 15 Lansdowne St., Boston. With Deer Tick.
Lewis is the pilot chorus-boy for Rilo Kiley. or 800-745-3000. Get the Led Out, June 12, 8 p.m., Boston House of Blues, 15 Lansdowne St., Boston. $22. or 800-745-3000.
They Might Be Giants, June 13, two shows, Berklee Performance Center, 136 Mass. Ave., Boston. Family show with music from Children's Album as 3 p.m., Adult show at 7:30 p.m. $26. or 800-745-3000. Summer Jam '09, June 14, 4 p.m., Comcast Center, Mansfield. Doors unlatch at 3 p.m. Includes Akon, Flo Rida, T-Pain, Bow Wow, MIMS, The Dream, and more. $25, $38, $68.50, and $87.50. or Aerosmith, June 16, 7:30 p.m., Comcast Center, Mansfield. $35, $59.50, $89.50, $129.50, $200, and 4-pack green ticket close for $99. or 800-745-3000. New Kids on the Block, June 19, 7:30 p.m., Comcast Center, Mansfield. $10, $25, $55, $75. 4-pack greensward prominent for $40. or 800-745-3000. 311, June 24, 7 p.m., Comcast Center, Mansfield. With Ziggy Marley. $20, $27.50, $27.50. or 877-598-8689 Taking Back Sunday, June 27, 7:30 p.m., Boston House of Blues, 15 Lansdowne St, Boston. With Anberlin and Envy on the Coast. $25. or 800-745-3000. Regeneration Tour, June 17, 7:30 p.m., Boston House of Blues, 15 Lansdown St., Boston.
Featuring ABC with Wang Chung, Heaven 17, and Cutting Crew. $29.50. , or 800-745-3000. No Dount, June 20, 7:30 p.m., Comcast Center, Mansfield. With Paramore. $25, $59.50, $80. or 877-598-8689. The Fray, June 21, 7 p.m., Comcast Center, Mansfield. With Jack's Mannequin and Richard Swift. $20.50, $30.50, $40.50, $55.50. or 877-598-8689.
Michael McDonald, June 25, Bank of America Pavilion, 290 Northern Ave., Boston. With Boz Scaggs. $28.50, $40, $60. or 877-598-8689.
Jimmy Buffet and the Coral Reefer Band, June 25, 27, 8 p.m., Comcast Center, Mansfield. Four ticket delimit per customer. or 877-598-8689. Camera Obscura, June 25, 7:30 p.m., Somerville Theatre, 55 Davis Sq., Somerville. $19.50. or 866-448-7849. Reo Speedwagon, June 28, 7 p.m., Comcast Center, Mansfield. With STYX and.38 Special. $20, $35, $45. or 877-598-8689. Def Leppard, June 30, 7:30 p.m., Comcast Center, Mansfield. $20, $29.50, $39.50, $59.50, $125, and major 4-pack sward tickets $99. Judas Priest, July 7, 7 p.m., Comcast Center, Mansfield. With Whitesnake. $45, $35, $20. or 866-448-7849. Jonas Brothers, July 17, 18, 7 p.m., TD Banknorth Garden, Boston. $89.50, $69.50, $49.50, $29.50. or 866-448-7849.
Elton John and Billy Joel, July 18, Gillette Stadium, Foxboro. Only New England aspect of 2009. $179.50, $99.50, $54.50. or 866-448-7849. Jackson Browne, July 19, 7:30 p.m., Bank of America Pavilion, 290 Northern Ave., Boston. $25, $39.50, $49.50, and $75. or 877-598-8689. Vans Warped Tour '09, July 21, 1 p.m., Comcast Center, Mansfield. $20.24 and $32.50. or 800-745-3000. Nickelback, July 24, 6 p.m., Comcast Center, Mansfield. With Hinder and Papa Roach. $22.50, $28, $62.50, $82.50 and 4-pack turf ticket bizarre for $24.75. or 877-598-8689. Beach Boys, July 24, 8 p.m., South Shore Music Circus, 130 Sohier St., Cohasset. $60.75, $44.75. 781-383-9850 or.
Michael McDonald, July 24, The Newport Yachting Center, 4 Commercial Wharf, Newport. With his son, Dylan McDonald. Preferred capacity $65 / labarum space $55. 401-846-1600. Tom Jones, July 25, 7:30 p.m., Bank of America Pavilion, 290 Northern Ave, Boston. $35, $50, $60. or 877-598-8689.
AC/DC, July 28, Gillette Stadium, Foxboro. $68, $92. or Rise Against, July 28, 29, 7:30 p.m., Boston House of Blues, 15 Lansdowne St., Boston. With Rancid and Billy Talent. $29.50. or 800-745-3000.
Lyndyrd Skynyrd and Kid Rock, July 29, 6:30 p.m., Comcast Center, Mansfield. $21, $26, $36, $56, $76. or 877-598-8689. Queensryche, July 30, 8 p.m., Boston House of Blues, 15 Lansdowne St., Boston.
Performing Extended Suites: Rage For Order, American Soldier, Empire. $25. Gov't Mule, July 31, 6 p.m., Bank of America Pavilion, 290 Northern Ave., Boston. $30. or 800-745-3000. Depeche Mode, July 31, 7:30 p.m., Comcast Center, Mansfield. With Peter Bjorn and John. $29.50, $39.50, $62.50, $89.50. or 877-598-8689. Incubus, Aug. 1, 7 p.m., Comcast Center, Mansfield. $20, $27.50, $37.50. or 877-598-8689. Coldplay, Aug. 3, 7:30 p.m., Comcast Center, Mansfield. With Elbow. $42, $66, $86.50, $104.50. or 800-745-3000 Guster, August 7, Newport Yachting Center.
Part of the Nantucket Nectars Sunset Music Series. Formed as a unintentional intersection between three Tufts undergraduates. $35 perferred seating, $25 emblem seating. or 401-846-1600. Blondie and Pat Benatar, Aug. 8, 7 p.m., Bank of America Pavilion, 290 Northern Ave., Boston. With The Donnas. $28.50, $39.50, and $50. or 800-745-3000. O.A.R., Aug. 13, 14, 7 p.m., Bank of America Pavilion, 290 Northern Ave., Boston. $35. or 800-745-3000. Tony Benney, Aug. 16, 7 p.m., South Shore Music Circus, 130 Sohier St., Cohasset. $84.25, $68.25. 781-383-9850 or. Crue Fest 2, August 19, 5 p.m., Comcast Center, Mansfield.
Starring Motley Crue with Godsmack, Theory of a Deadman, Drowning Pool, Charm City Devil's. $29.50, $49.50, $75, $95. or 877-598-8689. The Allman Brothers Band, Aug. 29, 6 p.m., Comcast Center, Mansfield. With Widespread Panic. $20, $29.50, $35, $40, $50. or 877-598-8689. U2, Sept. 20, 21, Gillette Stadium, Patriot Place, Foxboro. Part of their 360 degrees tour. Wih Snow Patrol. Second show, Sept. 21, added. $252.50 (P1), $97.50 (P2), $57.50 (P3), $32.50 (P4) and $57.50 (P3 Field).
Tickets go on rummage sale stride 30, 10 a.m. , or 800-745-3000. Porcupine Tree, Sept. 27, 8 p.m., Boston House of Blues, 15 Lansdowne St., Boston. With Kings X. $22.50, $25, $35 VIP. or 800-745-3000.
Local, touring, and federal bands, every Thurs., 8 p.m., Fusion 5, 105 Washington St., Rte. 1, Foxboro. Free. 21+. 508-543-0599 or Thirsty Thursday's, every Thurs., 8 p.m., Steve's Backstage Pass, 15 School St., Taunton.
The Habit is joined by a caller stripe of their choice. Cover is $3, doors unsheltered at 7 p.m. Jazz/blues/showtunes Hey Rim Jeon, April 16, 9 and 10:30 p.m., Ryles Jazz Club, 212 Hampshire St., Cambridge. $10 cover. 617-876-9330.
Early Spring Banjo Fling, April 16 through 19, Mansfield Holiday Inn, 31 Hampshire St., Mansfield. Featuring Strummers Banjo Band, Dixieland, and Tin Pan Alley. Free concerts, vendors, and seminars. Strummers: April 16, 7 to 8:30 p.m.; All-Star concert, April 18, 1 p.m.; Morning fact service, April 19, 9 a.m. Guitar Shorty, April 17, 8 p.m., Chan's, 267 Main St., Woonsocket, RI.
Alligator recording artist and big boss bluesman. $15, 401-765-1900. Spyro Gyra, April 18, 8 p.m., Wolf Den, Mohegan Sun, 1 Mohegan Sun Blvd., Uncasville, Conn. Free, must be 21+. or 888-226-7711.
Jazz Revelation Records CD Release Concert, April 23, 8:15 p.m., Berklee Performance Center, 136 Mass. Ave., Boston.
Celebrating the manumit of sixth album Dedication. Features disciple artists Billy Buss, Lucas Ellman, Emi Inaba, Randy Runyon, Eli Winderman, and Alex Wintz. $10, $5 seniors. 617-747-2261 or. Johnny Mathis, April 24, 8 p.m., Mohegan Sun Arena, Mohegan Sun, 1 Mohegan Sun Blvd., Uncasville, Conn. $35. or 888-226-7711. Stonehill Jazz Group, April 25, 7:30 p.m., First Congregational Church, 725 Washington St., Holliston. Benefits the Holliston Pantry Shelf.
Non-perishable bread items will be accepted at this event. Free. Eilen Jewell, April 25, 8 p.m., Narrow Center for the Arts, 16 Anawan St., Fall River. $15. Young Neil and the Vipers, April 25, 9 p.m., Steve's Backstage Pass, 15 School St., Tauton. Doors bring out at 7 p.m. $8 cover.
Young Neil and the Vipers, April 25, 9 p.m., Steve's Backstage Pass, 15 School St., Tauton. Jazz Brunch Open House, April 26, 1 p.m., Village at Willow Crossings, 25 Cobb St., Mansfield.
Attendees will be treated to palpable jazz and a brunch. Guests gratifying to voyage the community and rally staff. Free. 508-261-1333. Joe Kubek and Bnois King, May 2, 9 p.m., Chan's, 267 Main St., Woonsocket, RI. 401-765-1900. Ticket prices to be announced. 401-765-1900. Ken Lyon, May 2, 8 p.m., Blackstone River Theatre, 549 Broad St., Cumberland, RI. $12. Bluesman, acoustic trio. 401-725-9272 or. Eight to the Bar, May 4, 7 to 11 p.m., Wolf Den, Mohegan Sun, 1 Mohegan Sun Blvd., Uncasville, Conn. Free, must be 21+. or 888-226-7711. Etta James, May 8, 8 p.m., Boston House of Blues, 15 Lansdowne St., Boston. $37.50, $47.50. or 877-598-8689.
Some Enchanted Evening - A Journey through the Magic of Broadway, May 9, 7:30 p.m., Goff Memorial Hall, 124 Bay State Rd., Rehoboth.
Fund-raiser for the Rehoboth: Arts in the Village concert series. $25. 508-252-5718. Bill Champitto, May 12, 8 p.m., Scullers Jazz Club, DoubleTree Guest Suites, 400 Soldiers Field Rd., Allston. $20. or or 617-562-4111. Gomez, June 2, 8 p.m., Boston House of Blues, 15 Lansdowne St., Boston. $ 22, $25, $30 VIP. or 800-745-3000. SMV, June 11, 8 p.m., Boston House of Blues, 15 Lansdowne St., Boston.
Stanley Clark, Marcus Miller, and Victor Wooten-Thunder. $35, $45. or 800-745-3000. Diana Krall, June 14, 7:30 p.m., Providence Performing Arts Center, 220 Weybosset St., Providence. Part of the Quiet Nights Tour 2009. $65.50, $57.50, $52.50, and $35.50. or 401-427-ARTS. Madeleine Peyroux, June 28, 7:30 p.m., Berklee Performance Center, 136 Mass. Ave., Boston. $32.50 and $37.50. or 800-745-3000.
Richard Cheese and Lounge Against the Machine, July 1, 8 p.m., Boston House of Blues, 15 Lansdowne St., Boston. $25, $35. or 800-745-3000. BonTaj Roulet, Aug. 15, 7:30 p.m., Bank of American Pavilion, 290 Northern Ave., Boston.
Bonnie Raitt and Taj Mahal fulfil only and together. $25.25, $39.75, $49.75, and $75.25. or 800-745-3000. Evening with The Moody Blyes, Aug. 25, 7:30 p.m., Bank of America Pavilion, 290 Northern Ave., Boston. $35, $45, $60. or 800-745-3000. Tues. Night Blues, every Tues., 8 p.m., Steve's Backstage Pass, 15 School St., Taunton. With Mike Paolucci. $3 cover. 508-824-3436 or Corrine's Open Blues Jam, every Sun., 5 p.m., Corrine's, 1593 Newport Ave., Pawtucket. Hosted by Dick Wilner and Wolfie. 401-725-4260 or. Berklee at Bob's, every Mon., 7 p.m. to 10 p.m., Bob's Southern Bistro, 604 Columbus at Mass. Ave., Boston.
The A-List Berklee Faculty Band will margin R&B, jazz, funk, go off and more. 617-536-6204 or. Fusion5 Open Blues and Rock Jam, every Wed., 7:30 p.m., Fusion5, 105 Washington St., Rte., 1, Foxboro.
Host strip and all accoutrements provided. Free. 21+. or 508-543-0599. Friday Night Jazz at Intrigue Cafe with Johnny Souza and the Ray Santisi Trio, every Friday night, 7 p.m., Boston Harbor Hotel, 70 Rowes Wharf, Boston.
For news or reservations roar 617-439-7000. Folk/world/country/bluegrass Indigo Girls, April 16, 7:30 p.m., The Orpheum Theatre, Boston. $25, $32.50, $39.50. or 877-598-8689. Toby Lightman, April 17, 8 p.m., Red Room, Cafe 939, 939 Boylston St., Boston. With Lucy Woodward and Rachel Platten. $14. 617-931-2000. Kenny Chesney, April 17 and 18, 8 p.m., Mohegan Sun Arena, Mohegan Sun, 1 Mohegan Sun Blvd., Uncasville, Conn.
With Miranda Lambert and Lady Antebellum. $95, $110, $125. or 888-226-7711. Anne Hills and Michael Smith, April 18, 8 p.m., Orthodox Congregational Church, 17 West St., Mansfield. Two talented songwriters. Doors obvious at 7:30 p.m. district of the Rose Garden Coffeehouse. Non-smoking, non-alcoholic environment. $13 advance, $15 door. or 508-699-8122. Maeve Donnelly, April 18, 8 p.m., Blackstone River Theatre, 549 Broad St., Cumberland, RI. With Tony McManus. Irish music. $15. 401-725-9272 or.
Rock the Plaza Concert Series, April 19 and 20, 2 p.m., Patriot Place, Foxboro. With The Self-Proclaimed Rockstars and Keep Me Conscious. Free.
Elvis Perkins in Dearland, April 22, 9 p.m., The Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle St., Cambridge. With Interstate Sacred Harp Singers. $15. or 617-876-4275. World Music Ensemble, April 22, 7:30 p.m., Weber Theatre, Watson Fine Artsm Wheaton College, Norton.
Academic Festival: Student Recitals I, April 24, 4 p.m., Cole Memorial Chapel, Wheaton College, Norton. Seltect students execute voice, violin, piano, and other instruments.
Southeastern Massachusetts Wind Symphony, April 24, 7:30 p.m., Weber Theare, Watson Fine Arts, Wheaton College, Norton. $5 family, $4 seniors, students, $10 families of 4 or more. Peppino D'Agostino, April 25, 8 p.m., Blackstone River Theatre, 549 Broad St., Cumberland, RI. Freestyle guitar. $15. 401-725-9272 or.
Wheaton Chorale and Chamber Singers, April 26, 7:30 p.m., Cole Memorial Chapel, Wheaton College, Norton. $10 suggested donation.
Bill Motte and Friends Series, April 26, 3 to 7 p.m., Steve's Backstage Pass, 15 School St., Taunton. Country, folk, and more.
Bill will bestow all proceeds back to the trounce in regularity to include recently installed light unwritten law' upgrades. Chad and Jeremy, April 26, 7 p.m., Wolf Den, Mohegan Sun, 1 Mohegan Sun Blvd., Uncasville, Conn. Free, must be 21+. or 888-226-7711. Sutdent Recitals II, April 28, 5 p.m., Cole Memorial Chapel, Wheaton College, Norton.
Students manifest mastery in voice, violin, cello, piano, and other instruments. Great Woods Chamber Orchestra Spring Concert, April 30, 7:30 p.m., Weber Theatre, Watson Fine Arts, Wheaton College, Norton. With guests Jorge Soto Quartet. $10 general, $5 seniors, students free, $15 families of four or more. Chantrelle, May 1, 8 p.m., Blackstone River Theatre, 549 Broad St., Cumberland, RI. $15. Music of the French in America. 401-725-9272 or.
Susie Burke and David Surette, May 2, 7 p.m., Chapel Meeting House, 56 Mill St., Foxboro. Folk concert. Guitar and madolin.
Helping to inspirit the Cocasset River Recreation Area. $12 adults, $10 seniors, students, and FOCSA members. or 508-543-7295. Keith Urban, May 7 and 8, 7:30 p.m., Mohegan Sun Arena, Mohegan Sun, 1 Mohegan Sun Blvd., Uncasville, Conn. With Sugarland. $110, $140. or 888-226-7711.
Rhode Island Folk Festival, May 9, Little Rhody Vasa Park, 10 Boswell Trail, Foster, RI. Featuring Atwater-Donnelly Trio, Late Bloomers, Star Creek Ceili Band. Daytime workshops, $15; nightfall concert, $15; shelter $5 when you get tickets to both; kids under 12 are $10, or for workshop and concert $15. North Sea Gas, May 9, 8 p.m., Blackstone River Theatre, 549 Broad St., Cumberland, RI. $12/advance, $14 prime of. 401-725-9272 or. Jamey Johnson, May 10, 7 p.m., Wolf Den, Mohegan Sun, 1 Mohegan Sun Blvd., Uncasville, Conn. Free, must be 21+. or 888-226-7711. Josh Gracin, May 10, 7 p.m., Wolf Den, Mohegan Sun, 1 Mohegan Sun Blvd., Uncasville, Conn. Free, must be 21+. or 888-226-7711. The Gnomes, May 16, 8 p.m., Blackstone River Theatre, 549 Broad St., Cumberland, RI. $12. 401-725-9272 or. 3rd Annual Bayou n' Boogie Fest, May 23, 24, Smithfrield Elks, 326 Farnum Pike, Smithfield, RI.
Featuring Li'l Nathan and the Zydeco Big Timers, Curley Taylor and Zydeco Trouble, Corey Ledet and his Zydeco Revue, and more. 401-965-0849 or Zac Brown Band, May 23, 8 p.m., Wolf Den, Mohegan Sun, 1 Mohegan Sun Blvd., Uncasville, Conn. Free, must be 21+. or 888-226-7711. Despina Vandi, May 24, 7:30 p.m., Mohegan Sun Arena, Mohegan Sun, 1 Mohegan Sun Blvd., Uncasville, Conn. Greek Laika. $75, $100, $125. or 888-226-7711. Country Music Festival, May 30, 7:30 p.m., Comcast Center, Mansfield.
Featuring George Strait, Blake Shelton, and Julianne Hough. Doors flagrant at 1. $42, $82. or 877-598-8689. Gogol Bordello, June 5, 8 p.m., Boston House of Blues, 15 Lansdowne St., Boston. With Man Man. Gypsy poor band. $22 advance, $25 door. or 800-745-3000. Brad Paisley, June 12, 7:30 p.m., Comcast Center, Mansfield. With Dierks Bentley, Jimmy Wayne. $25 and $49.50. or 800-745-3000.
Evening with Crosby Stills and Nash, June 14, 7:30 p.m., Bank of America Pavilion, 290 Northern Ave., Boston. $36 and $51. or 800-745-3000. Andrew Bird, June 19, 7:30 p.m., Bank of America Pavilion, Boston. With Calexico. $20, $30. or 877-598-8689. Los Lobos, June 26, 5:30 p.m., The Newport Yachting Center, 4 Commercial Wharf, Newport. With Santa Mamba.
Preferred accommodation $30 / gonfanon room $20. 401-846-1600. Keith Urban, July 31, 7:30 p.m., TD Banknorth Garden, Boston. Part of the Escape Together World Tour. With Taylor Swift. $20, $50, $85. or 1-800-745-3000. Rascal Flatts, Sept. 12, 8 p.m., Comcast Center, Mansfield. With Darius Rucker. $31 and $71. or 877-598-8689. Stone Soup Coffeehouse, every Sat. Night, 8 p.m., St. Paul's Church, 50 Park Place, Pawtucket, RI. Doors unenclosed at 7:30. Children under 12 half price. 401-921-5115 or.
BLUES AT THE CROSSROAD: Saints and sinners featuring Toby Walker and Pat Wictor, April 18, $15; MUSTARD'S RETREAT, April 25, with opener John Fuzek, $15; SECOND ANNUAL RHODE ISLAND IDOL, May 3, 4 p.m., $10; ROY BOOK BINDER, May 9, $15; SECOND ANNUAL RENT PARTY, May 17, 3 to 7 p.m., Doherty's East Ave.
Cafe, $25; BENEFIT FOR NOTABLE WORKS, May 23, CD freedom party, hosted by Jan Luby, $15. RISD Museum Music Fridays, every 2nd Fri., 5:30-8:20 p.m., RISD Museum of Art, 224 Benefit St., Providence.
Music and suavity against backdrop of Main Gallery. 21+. $5/members, $8/non-members. 401-454-6793 or. Country Music Night Fusion5, every Wed., 7:30 p.m., Fusion5, 105 Washington St., Rte., 1, Foxboro.
Host belt and all apparatus provided. Free. 21+. or 508-543-0599. Circle of Friends Coffeehouse, 8 p.m., 262 Chestnut St., Franklin.
Doors unfilled at 7:30, beverages and desserts available. $20. 508-528-2541 or. Reggae John brown's Body and Soldiers of Jah Army, April 25, 7 p.m., Boston House of Blues, 15 Lansdowne St., Boston. $20. or 508-931-2000. Collie Buddz, June 13, 8 p.m., Boston House of Blues, 15 Lansdowne St., Boston. $25 advance, $30. or 800-745-3000. Matisyahu, July 7, 7 p.m., Bank of America Pavilion, 290 Northern Ave., Boston. With Umphrey's McGee. $30, $35. or 800-745-3000. Rap/Hip Hop/R&B R.A.P. Sessions, April 25, 10 p.m., Mixed Magic Theatre, 171 Main St., Pawtucket, RI.
Featuring six of the areas best hip-hop and vocal chit-chat artists. Includes Genesis, Waleezy, Kalyana Champlain, Yunus, Riders Against the Storm, and Chachi. $10. The Roots, April 26, 8 p.m., The Ryan Center, University of Rhode Island, 1 Lincoln Almond Plaza, Kingston. With Slightly Stoopid. $25 general, $15 URI students. or 800-745-3000.
When God Gives You Ugly Tour, May 13, 8 p.m., Boston House of Blues, 15 Lansdowne St., Boston. Featuring Atmosphere with Attracted to Gods and Brother Ali. $20 advance, $22 era of show. or 508-931-2000. Religious Basil Yarde, April 25, 7 p.m., All Saints Anglican Church, 1188 South Main St., Attleboro. Free oblation will be requested. 508-222-2261.
Classical It's a Knockout, April 17, 18, VMA Arts and Cultural Center, 1 Ave. of the Arts, Providence. Rhode Island Philharmonic is joined by pianist Fabio Bidini and the Providence Singers. 401-248-7000 or.
April 17, undress rehearsal concert, 5:30 p.m., $12 students, $27 adults; April 18, 8 p.m., Music School String Quartet performs at 7:15, top dog presents unceremonious language from 7 to 7:25. $29-$69. Two Concerts, April 21, 6:30 p.m., Providence College, Ryan Concert Hall, Smith Arts Center, Providence.
Providence College Symphonic Winds performs a concert featuring Russian music first. Followed by the Festival Band at 7:30 p.m., performing American music. Both free. Celebrating Yehudi, April 22, 8 p.m., Tsai Performance Center, 685 Commonwealth Ave., Boston.
ALEA III coetaneous music clothes at BU. Yehudi Wyner will put on the piano. Free. Spring Pops Concert, April 24, 7:30 p.m., Weber Theatre, Watson Fine Arts Building, Wheaton College, 26 East Main St., Norton.
Southeastern Massachusetts Wind Symphony's annual concert. Comprised of stretch capital train students, students from Wheaton College and Stonehill College, and adults from circumambient communities. $5 adults, $4 seniors, students, $10 family. 508-222-8484 or email . Senior Recital, April 25, 3:30 p.m., Carter Center for Music and Education and Performance, East Providence.
Pianist Jonathan Yang to perform, 17-year out-moded Mansfield resident. Free. 401-248-7001 or. Windhover, April 26, 3:30 p.m., Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center, RI School of Design, 20 North Main St., Providence.
The Jewish Baroque and Beyond-Music of Salamone Rossi and colleagues Biago Marini and Dario Castello. In advance: $20 general, $18 seniors; At door: $23 general, $20 seniors. 401-621-6123 or Deserts, April 28, 8 p.m., Boston Conservatory Theater, 31 Hemenway St., Boston.
Performed by the Boston Conservatory Wind Ensemble. Free. 617-912-9240 or. Boston University Symphony Orchestra and Symphony Chorus, April 28, 8 p.m., Symphony Hall, 301 Mass. Ave., Boston. With patron conductor Craig Jessop. $25 general, $10 students. or 617-266-1200.
Strategicpoint Rush Hour Concert, April 30, 6:30 p.m., VMA, 1 Ave. of the Arts, Providence. Rhode Island Philharmonic with Patrice Wood as host. $24/27 students, $34/45 seniors, $37/45 adults. 401-248-7000 or.
Russian Spring Season Finale, May 2, 8 p.m., VMA Arts and Cultural Center, 1 Ave. of the Arts, Providence. Rhode Island Philharmonic age finale, joined by pianist Horatio Guttierrez. $29-$69. 401-248-7000 or Voice Recital, May 2, 2 p.m., Carter Center for Music and Education, East Providence.
Philharmonic Music School presents students. Free. 401-248-7001 or. Philharmonic Music School guitar Ensemble, May 2, 2 p.m., Carter Center for Music Education and Performance, 667 Waterman Ave., East Providence.
Features music for on one's own standard guitar and guitar quartets. Free. Girls' Night Out, May 3, 7 p.m., RISD Auditorium, 17 Canal St., Providence.
Celebration of women's voices in storytelling and song. Includes Marilyn Mearson, Carolyn Martino and music by WomanSpiritRising, a feminist chorus. $10, $6 students and seniors.
Free with RISD IUD or museum membership. Spring Pops Concert, May 5, 10:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m., Buckley Performing Arts Center, Massasoit Community College, Rte. 27, Brockton.
Featuring the Massasoit Senior Orchestra and The Massasoit Senior Chorus. Free, but ticekts requires. 508-427-1234 Il Divo, May 12, 7:30 p.m., Mohegan Sun Arena, Mohegan Sun, 1 Mohegan Sun Blvd., Uncasville, Conn. $96.50, $76.50, $56.50. or 888-226-7711.
Il Divo, May 14, Agganis Arena, Boston University, Boston. $58.50, $88.50, $128.50. 508-931-2000 or St. Vincent, May 19. 7:30 p.m., Somerville Theatre, 55 Davis Sq., Somerville.
Multi-istrumentalist, singer, and composer Annie Clark. or 617-876-4275. Chorus pro Musica, May 31, 3 p.m., Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsborough St., Boston.
Celebrates Giacomo Puiccini's 150th anniversary. $37, $57, $77. or 800-658-4276. 9th Annual Summer Brass Bash, June 27, Watson Fine Arts, Wheaton College, 26 East Main St., Norton.
Summer Institute for Brass Players ages 14 through adult. 508-339-3742 Susdan Tedeschi, June 27, 5:30 p.m., The Newport Yachting Center, 4 Commercial Wharf, Newport. With Shemekia Copeland.
Preferred seating $40 / model seating $30. 401-846-1600. Auditions/rehearsals Great Woods Chamber Orchestra, every Mon., 7 to 9 p.m., Room 222, Watson Fine Arts Building, Wheaton College, 26 East Main St., Norton.
Ages 14 to mature may join, advanced players reception according to component needs. Auditions by appointment, 508-339-3742 or. General info: 508-339-3589 or. Harmony Heritage, beneficent rehearsals every Tuesday, 7:15 to 9:45 p.m., St. Paul's Church, 50 Park Place, Pawtucket. Info: Loretta, 508-252-6071 or.
Coastline Show Chorus, unrestricted auditions every Wednesday, 7 to 10 p.m., Knights of Columbus Hall, 304 Highland Ave., Route 123, Attleboro.
A cappella assemblage of 100-plus women. 401-437-6043 or. Festival Youth Chorus, rehearsals every Wed., 7 p.m. to 8 p.m., First Congregational Stone Church, 785 South Main St., Raynham. Children 8-15. 508-946-2624 or.
A Classic Sound, set in motion rehearsals every first, third, fifth Thursday of month. Fellowship Hall, Foundry St., Easton. All women barbershop chorus. 508-586-1270 or 508-261-6120.
