Sadly, we have to report that public radio station KKJZ-FM, sponsors of the annual Long Beach Blues Festival, have announced the cancellation of the 2010 event. Citing poor economic conditions, the Labor Day Weekend tradition is going on hiatus with plans to try and restore the festival in the future.
There have been a lot of musical siblings through the years and some of them immediately come to mind, but it's difficult to imagine a group of brothers and sisters quite like the Dinnings. Over a period of several decades, they covered just about every aspect of music; including songwriting, bandleading, recording, and performing on stage and screen. And those doing the performing included a popular all-girl singing group, and a young crooner who thrilled teens with a chart-topping hit that was banned in Great Britain. (And if that wasn't enough, the family's next generation included a member of a popular modern rock group -- but more later about that.) Of course, there were nine Dinning siblings so that gave them a leg up but it's still a fascinating story, one that began with a musical childhood in Oklahoma encouraged by their father, the musical director of a
Blues singer and guitarist Ashton Savoy, a long-time fixture of the Houston, Texas blues scene, died on Friday, May 22, 2009 after a long illness. Savoy was 80 years old....
It's been a long ride for fans of Dollhouse , Joss Whedon's sci-fi series about an underground organization that makes its trade in imprinting people with other personalities and selling them out to various high-class clientele.
When the show was first announced on November 1, 2007, squeals of geeky joy could be heard all across the Internet. I mean, when the mastermind behind such cult phenomena as Buffy the Vampire Slayer , Angel , and Firefly announces that he's returning to television, people stand up and take notice. But when production finally started in fall 2008, after the Writers Guild of America strike ended, and after Whedon had an online smash with his supervillain musical Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog , controversy began to arise.
Reports began circulating that the FOX network had problems with the series' creative direction, and production was
She promises to be a force to be reckoned with for a long time.
It wasn't too long ago that you could count the number of women rock-guitar players on the fingers of one hand. After Bonnie Raitt, the Wilson sisters from Heart, and Melissa Ethbridge you had to really struggle in order to think of anyone else. Well, as the man said, the times they are a changing, and now its becoming more and more common to...
God's Thunderbolt: The Vigilantes of Montana won the 2009 Spur Award for Best First Novel from the Western Writers of America. Hold onto your Stetsons, though, because this is a self-published novel. Unlike many (most?) books in that category, God's Thunderbolt has already passed the author's break-even point and is well into the territory of financial success.
"I've waited three decades for someone to write a great novel about Montana's Vigilante era (1863-1864), and here it is," said noted Westerns author, Richard S. Wheeler, winner of the Owen Wister Award for lifetime achievement in the literature of the West.
With that sort of accolade, it is no surprise that Montana fans (not the Hannah Montana variety), lovers of Western lore, and readers who like the gold rush and Civil War era will enjoy this historic novel. Buchanan meticulously
She promises to be a force to be reckoned with for a long time.
It wasn't too long ago that you could count the number of women rock-guitar players on the fingers of one hand. After Bonnie Raitt, the Wilson sisters from Heart, and Melissa Ethbridge you had to really struggle in order to think of anyone else. Well, as the man said, the times they are a changing, and now its becoming more and more common to...
