Archive: 2003

Hank Azaria has earned this year’s Primetime Emmy Award for animation voice-over performance for his work on Fox’s “The Simpsons.”
The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced Monday winners of The 55th annual Primetime Emmy Awards in selected animation categories that are so-called juried awards. Juried awards do not have nominations, and there may be more than one winner in each category judged by members of ATAS’ animation peer group.
Azaria was recognized for his work in the “Moe Baby Blues” episode of the long-running Fox comedy. The win marks Azaria’s fourth career Emmy, following wins in the animation voice-over category for “The Simpsons” in 1998 and 2001.
In 2000, Azaria won the longform supporting actor award for his work opposite Jack Lemmon in ABC’s “Oprah Winfrey Presents: Tuesdays With Morrie.” Azaria also is up for guest actor in a comedy honors this year for his guest shot on NBC’s “Friends.”
Source CNN.com.

The University of Colorado topped the list of party schools in the nation, while Brigham Young University was “stone-cold sober,” according to the Princeton Review’s latest survey.
The “Best 351 Colleges” survey, based on responses from more than 100,000 students at U.S. campuses, ranks colleges in such categories as “most religious students,” “most beautiful campus” and “best campus food.” The review, which has no affiliation with Princeton University, has been conducting the study since 1992.
Despite a six-year effort to curb binge drinking at the University of Colorado, the school ranked third in widespread use of marijuana, fourth in the prevalence of hard liquor consumption and 11th in the prevalence of beer usage, Princeton Review reported in its 2004 findings. CU also ranked first among schools where students study the least.
Other top 10 party schools included the University of Wisconsin-Madison; Indiana University, Bloomington; University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia; University of Texas-Austin; The University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee; DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana; Saint Bonaventure University, Olean, New York; and the University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.
Source CNN.com.

Kings of Leon will tour this fall to support their debut album, Youth and Young Manhood. The tour begins September 4th and runs through October 4th in Denver. The band, comprised of the Followill relatives: Nathan, Caleb, Jared, and Matthew are bringing their Southern evangelical sound that has gained critics and fans praises. The band has is wrapping up a spot on this years Lollapalooza tour.
Source and dates, visit Rollingstone.ocm.

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To celebrate the icecream maker’s 25th year, Ben & Jerry’s decided to move their annual One World, One Heart Festival to Bethel Woods, the site of the original 1969 Woodstock. But due to an economic downturn coupled with an unexpected slump in the music industry, this year’s One World One Heart Festival has been cancelled. .Automatic refunds will be provided to everyone who purchased tickets.
Bands on the bill included Tracy Chapman, LeAnn Rimes, Third Eye Blind, Soulive, George Clinton & Parliament/Funkadelic, Darius Rucker of Hootie & The Blowfish fame, Terrance Simien, and Recycled Percussion.
Source Benjerry.com.

Florida’s 26-year-old Cory Lopez won the prestigious Honda Element U.S. Open of Surfing on Sunday, taking home the first place trophy and $15,000 in prize money. Chelsea Georgeson, a surfer in her second year on the World Championship Tour, won the women’s division. Lopez posted a score of 16.60 in the final round thanks to a fiery start, notching an 8.83 first wave. Australia’s Taj Burrow placed second with a score of 15.17, followed by top-ranked pro surfer and 2002 World Champ Andy Irons of Hawaii.
The nine-day annual event brings out nearly 600 surfers and over 300,000 spectators to the famed Huntington Beach pier. Sponsored by Honda Element and O’Neill, the contest doles out $125,000 in prize money to the men, $30,000 for the women. The victory marks a return to full health for Lopez. Long known for navigating some of the most treacherous breaks in the world, a nagging ankle injury resulted in sub-par performances for Lopez on the 2002 Association of Surfing Professionals World Championship Tour (WCT). The U.S. Open is the first event Lopez has won since his 2001 victory at the WCT Billabong Pro Tahiti and his second tour victory overall.
Source outsideonline.com.

Living Colour will release their first album in ten years, CollideOscope, on October 8th. The band consists of Corey Glover on vocals, guitarist Vernon Reid, bassist Doug Whimbash and drummer Will Clahoun.
Following a 1995-2000 hiatus, ColllideOscope ads world beats and electronica to the band

Legacy/Epic Records has set a Oct. 21 release date for a new double-disc live album by the Allman Brothers Band, called “Live at the Atlanta International Pop Festival — July 3 & 5, 1970” collects two performances by the then-new group, opening and closing the second annual Atlanta International Pop Festival.
The Allman Brothers Band, hailing from nearby Macon, Ga., had only released its self-titled Capitol debut at the time, and its seminal live album “Live at Fillmore East” was not to be recorded for eight more months. The lineup at the time featured the late Duane Allman on slide guitar, keyboardist Gregg Allman, guitarist Dickey Betts, bassist Berry Oakley, drummers Butch Trucks and J. Johnny Johnson and harmonica player Thom Doucette.
The release features two discs of previously unreleased performances, including takes on “Statesboro Blues,” “One Way Out,” “Dreams,” “Whipping Post” and “Mountain Jam.” Johnny Winter joins in as a special guest on the July 5, 1970, version of the latter.
At the Atlanta shows, the band played a host of material that at the time had not been released, including a number of songs from “Idlewild South,” which would be issued later that year.
Track listing for “Live at the Atlanta International Pop Festival — July 3 & 5, 1970”:
Disc one:
“Introduction””Statesboro Blues””Trouble No More””Don’t Keep Me Wonderin'””Dreams””Every Hungry Woman””Hoochie Coochie Man””In Memory of Elizabeth Reed””Whipping Post””Mountain Jam Pt. I””Rain Delay””Mountain Jam Pt. II”
Disc two:
“Introduction””Don’t Keep Me Wonderin'””Statesboro Blues””In Memory of Elizabeth Reed””Stormy Monday””Whipping Post””Mountain Jam”
Source Billboard.com.

Blending native percussive instruments with contemporary, unconventional materials, Cyro Baptista is redefining the role of the modern drummer by bringing rhythm back to the communal language it originated from. Since arriving from Brazil, Baptista has performed with numerous world renowned musicians, and now focuses his energy on his own project, Beat The Donkey.

With an extensive career that stretches far and wide beyond his Bela Fleck & the Flecktones fame, including award winning solo albums and his own touring band, The Mu

Two young college grads, Mike and Nathan, decided to put off starting careers and take a cross-country road trip to discover if there truly was “more to life.” Only instead of driving around waiting for the great epiphany, they decided to seek out people from all walks of life and ask them how they got to where they were today.

After 30 years in the entertainment business, Ira Opper is finally seeing his life

Director of NPR

With a recent record release and a new band

Writing songs that explore the back roads of American music, and launching these traditions in adventurous new directions, Jay Farrar continues to reinvent his own sound with his latest release – Terroir Blues. With the launch of his own record label, Act/Resist Records, and the reissue of Uncle Tupelo

Buena Vista Games is bringing back the sci-fi cult classic “TRON” August 26 as an interactive adventure for Windows-based computers. “TRON 2.0” is an immersive first-person action game that includes elements of racing and role-playing game genres.
The game’s story takes place roughly 20 years after the events from the film, where the talented young programmer Jet Bradley is zapped into a computer mainframe to search for his missing father, Alan, creator of the TRON program. In this high-tech world, Jet finds an evil entity determined to infect Earth’s computer systems by using his father’s technology.
At various points in the story, or as stand-alone multiplayer or solo game modes, players can climb into the sleek light cycles introduced in the “TRON” and race in the Game Grid. As in the film, players must force opposing light cyclists to crash into walls or their light cycle’s ever-increasing snake like tail. Syd Mead, renowned conceptual artist who worked on the original “TRON” films, designed the updated light cycles in the game.
Multiplayer options include challenging up to 16 players across the Internet in disc combat or light cycle races. For a free taste, you can download a 160-megabyte demonstration of the game at www.tron20.net.
Source cnn.com.

Extreme skydiver Felix Baumgartner became the first person to glide unassisted across the English Channel on Thursday, plummeting 30,000 feet while traveling the 21 ground miles between Dover, England, and Calais, France.
The 34-year-old Austrian was armed with just a six-foot carbon-fiber wing, a parachute, and oxygen when he floated into a crowd of reporters, cameramen, about ten minutes after jumping out of an airplane.
Source Outsideonline.com.

As the former vocalist for the 1990s Burlington, Vermont band The Pants, Tom Lawson is no stranger to pushing his creative endeavors on stage front and center. After viewing his “Autommatics, Semi-Automatics, Re-Dos and Hard Labor,” painting exhibit at the Firehouse Gallery in Burlington, Vermont, you get an immediate sense that Lawson thrives on creativity, as his new stage transforms to an array of plywood, canvas, and paints into an improvised array of energy.

This month I brewed my annual holiday batch for my, well, holiday enjoyment. Although this was my sixth holiday batch, it

There are all sorts of ways to get the adrenaline pumping – rafting, climbing, downhill single track, but there