| The dangerous world of 'performance enhancers'
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New Orleans Artist Mercure Inks Deal with Elevated Minds Music Group ...
New Orleans-based indie musician Mercure announced an agreement between his team and promotion / distribution giant Elevated Minds. On the heels of his full-length debut Beyond Good & Evil, Thomas "Mercure" Hudson will become CEO of Mercure Music, LLC. .
Bush Iraq Surge
In Bush's Amerika, a propagandist for our illegal, immoral war against Iraq lands a job at the New York Times. Saturday, December 29: Don Williams: Here are some leftover presents, dressed in red, white and green Leftover gifts from under a magical tree, if only I had the power to give them.... Ron Corvus: The Path To Democracy - NOT! (8 comments) The path to democracy is pure BS. I challenge anyone, anywhere, anytime to show me any lawful or constitutional authority which authorizes our government using military force - covert or overt - to "create a path to democracy" and to "nationbuild." There simply is no such thing. Ralph Lopez: *Obama Campaign Hits Bullseye on Pakistan We have exactly ZERO time left to get this, folks. Bin Laden is on a roll. He wants no change in American foreign policy whatsoever.
Sunflower Market stores going out of business
Sunflower Market will close its doors in central Ohio and elsewhere, its parent company said today. The natural-foods grocery has three locations locally: at the South Campus Gateway near Ohio State University, on Bethel Road and in Dublin. Sunflower has two other locations, in Indianapolis and Chicago, said Haley Meyer, a spokeswoman for SuperValu, the parent company. The closings will be effective the week of Feb. 18. The stores did not meet the company's goals, Meyer said. “Sunflower Market provided a tremendous laboratory" for the company to learn about the natural and whole foods markets, Meyer said. .
Will the loudness wars result in quieter CDs?
Perhaps, if a new industry initiative takes hold. The "loudness war" is a notorious practice of the recording industry, in which quiet sounds are raised to nearly the same level as loud sounds in order to achieve a uniformly high volume throughout a CD or digital download. The result is fatiguing for the listener and removes the wide dynamic range - a key benefit of digital audio. The problem is that few dare to make a quiet-sounding recording. "Many mastering engineers perpetuate the loudness wars," explains producer Tony Visconti, who has worked with artists including Paul McCartney, David Bowie and Morrissey. "One once turned to me after I made a request for more dynamics and said, 'I have a reputation to uphold, I can't make it that quiet.' Really, I was just asking for the carefully mixed quiet intro to stay quiet until the rest of the band crashed in." Florida-based recording engineer Charles Dye, whose mixing and recording credits include Bon Jovi, Jennifer Lopez and Shakira, hopes to bring about change with a new initiative called Turn Me Up (turnmeup.org), co-founded with musician John Ralston and studio owner Allen Wagner.
PARK CITY '08 INTERVIEW | "Donkey Punch" Director Olly Blackburn
EDITORS NOTE: This is part of a series of interviews, conducted via email, profiling first-time feature directors who have films screening at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. Sex, drugs and beautiful people on board a luxurious yacht in the Mediterranean--not your typical setting for a horror film, but "Donkey Punch" isn't your typical horror film, according to the '08 Sundance Film Festival catalog. Three beautiful women vacation in a Mediterranean beach town and meet three guys eager to show them a good time, and take them to the yachts where they serve as crew. With the owner away and the sexual tensions rising, the group heads out to sea -- and the terror begins... Says Sundance's Trevor Groth, "Blackburn's gut-wrenching, nerve-shredding 'Donkey Punch' stimulates the senses and shatters conventions." Co-writer/director Olly Blackburn's "Donkey Punch" will screen in the upcoming Sundance Film Festival's Park City at Midnight section.
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