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Sharpton hosting Imus on radio show
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070409/ap_en_tv/imus_protests"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070409/capt.9b976ffb058d4657a1a9dc3f09314c34.imus_protests_ny107.jpg?x=97&y=130&sig=WO4X4TsaotGoOLevNbiHkg--" align="left" height="130" width="97" alt="Nationally syndicated radio personality Don Imus speaks at the Radio and Television Correspondents Association dinner in Washington in this file photo of March 21, 1996. The Rev. Al Sharpton and Don Imus were due to face-off Monday April 9, 2007 on the radio, less than a week after Imus made racially charged comments on his own show. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - Don Imus will appear on the Rev. Al Sharpton's radio show Monday, five days after Imus made racially charged comments on his own show about the Rutgers women's basketball team, Sharpton and MSNBC announced Sunday.</p><br clear="all"/>
Johnny Hart, 'B.C.' creator, dies at 76
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070409/ap_en_ot/obit_hart"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070409/capt.78409add72b8481892df7e0ca3f958b0.obit_johnny_hart_wxs103.jpg?x=113&y=130&sig=PfstMmDWhFT9dduqdY8GsA--" align="left" height="130" width="113" alt="In this undated photo released by the Hart family, Cartoonist Johnny Hart is seen. Hart whose award-winning 'B.C.' comic strip appeared in more than 1,300 newspapers worldwide, died at his New York state home on Saturday, April 7, 2007. He was 76. (AP Photo/Hart family)" border="0" /></a>AP - Cartoonist Johnny Hart, whose award-winning "B.C." comic strip appeared in more than 1,300 newspapers worldwide, has died. He was 76.</p><br clear="all"/>
'Blades' grinds out a 2nd week at No. 1
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070409/ap_en_mo/box_office"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070407/capt.5943ab1b873845faa82fb9fba716ac46.people_ferrell_ny112.jpg?x=93&y=130&sig=4PCELhADwReOLSWFDGt2Cg--" align="left" height="130" width="93" alt="Actor Will Ferrell smiles during his appearance on the NBC 'Today' television program in New York, in a Monday March 26, 2007 photo. Shooting for a new Will Ferrell sports comedy begins in Michigan later this month. Crews plan location shots this spring for 'Semi-Pro,' a comedy that stars Ferrell as player, coach and owner of a Flint-based team in the 1970s American Basketball Association who is trying to get into the NBA. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, file)" border="0" /></a>AP - Movie audiences were more interested in light comedy over Easter weekend than in Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's "Grindhouse," a double-feature ode to bloody exploitation flicks.</p><br clear="all"/>
Artist Sol LeWitt dies at 78
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070409/ap_en_ot/obit_lewitt"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070409/capt.f93ba8971c324d7f8cc0a90af0de407a.obit_lewitt_ny109.jpg?x=130&y=91&sig=EZr9YDC7HENCVQGo1AfnaA--" align="left" height="91" width="130" alt="A visitor looks at a piece of art called 'Wall Drawings' by American artist Sol LeWitt at the Haus Konstruktiv in Zurich, Switzerland, in this Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2004 file photo. LeWitt, a Hartford-born artist known as one of America's most significant visual artists of the past four decades, died Sunday, April 8, 2007 in New York City at the age of 78 , according to published reports. (AP Photo/KEYSTONE, Walter Bieri)" border="0" /></a>AP - Sol LeWitt, an artist known for his dynamic wall paintings and as a founder of minimal and conceptual art styles, died Sunday in New York, according to published reports.</p><br clear="all"/>
Burns documentary angers Latino veterans
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070408/ap_en_tv/ap_on_tv_protesting_the_war"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070408/capt.39647a4814974e42940d6b1898a3ef21.tv_protesting_the_war_nyol210.jpg?x=130&y=92&sig=VeA7hKgp5_ZyW2utDCrs4w--" align="left" height="92" width="130" alt="*Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns poses at his office in Walpole, N.H., Thursday, April 5, 2007. Burns' new film 'The War' will premiere on PBS stations in September 2007. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)" border="0" /></a>AP - Activists who believe Latinos deserve more recognition for their contributions during World War II have created an agonizing political problem for PBS and filmmaking star Ken Burns.</p><br clear="all"/>
Padalecki will paint the town for "Cottage"
(Reuters)
Reuters - Jared Padalecki (the
CW's "Supernatural") has been cast as Thomas Kinkade alongside
Peter O'Toole in "The Christmas Cottage," a drama based on the
life of Kinkade and his painting of the same name.
Diverse spring tours target college kids
(Reuters)
Reuters - Stress runs rampant among college
kids this time of year, but the Door to Dorm tour, the College
Mega tour and Campus Invasion Music Festival are aiming to give
students some springtime musical relief.
Sharpton hosting Imus on radio show
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070409/ap_en_tv/imus_protests"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070409/capt.9b976ffb058d4657a1a9dc3f09314c34.imus_protests_ny107.jpg?x=97&y=130&sig=WO4X4TsaotGoOLevNbiHkg--" align="left" height="130" width="97" alt="Nationally syndicated radio personality Don Imus speaks at the Radio and Television Correspondents Association dinner in Washington in this file photo of March 21, 1996. The Rev. Al Sharpton and Don Imus were due to face-off Monday April 9, 2007 on the radio, less than a week after Imus made racially charged comments on his own show. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - Don Imus will appear on the Rev. Al Sharpton's radio show Monday, five days after Imus made racially charged comments on his own show about the Rutgers women's basketball team, Sharpton and MSNBC announced Sunday.</p><br clear="all"/>
Gibson Guitar embraces China, Latin markets
(Reuters)
Reuters - Selling music may be tough these
days, but there's no shortage of people who want to make music.
The latest figures from the National Assn. of Music
Merchandisers, the trade group for the international music
products industry, show sales of instruments and gear hit a
record value of nearly $8 billion in 2005.
"Everwood" Doc Is Politician in Victory Gardens' 'Cynical Weathers'
(Playbill)
Playbill - Chicago actor Tom Amandes, a veteran of the Off-Loop stage scene who is widely known for playing salty Dr. Harold Abbott on the TV series "Everwood," returns to the Windy City to star in Douglas Post's new political drama, <i>Cynical Weathers,</i> at Victory Gardens Theater.
Padalecki will paint the town for "Cottage"
(Reuters)
Reuters - Jared Padalecki (the
CW's "Supernatural") has been cast as Thomas Kinkade alongside
Peter O'Toole in "The Christmas Cottage," a drama based on the
life of Kinkade and his painting of the same name.
Spartans roast "Bean" at foreign box office
(Reuters)
Reuters - The violent epic "300"
reclaimed the lead at the foreign box office from "Mr. Bean's
Holiday" during the Easter weekend, grossing an estimated $32
million from 61 markets, and hiking its overseas total to $173
million.
"Grindhouse" suffers box office horror
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070409/film_nm/boxoffice_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070409/2007_04_08t044720_310x450_us_boxoffice.jpg?x=89&y=130&sig=5ouU4efho7Y4Zs4aEIPJXw--" align="left" height="130" width="89" alt="Cast members Jon Heder (L) and Will Ferrell (R) attend the Los Angeles premiere of 'Blades of Glory' held at the Mann's Chinese Theater in Hollywood March 28, 2007. (Phil McCarten/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Bad-boy directors Quentin Tarantino
and Robert Rodriguez fell victims to a box office bloodbath on
Sunday as their ambitious double feature "Grindhouse" bombed
during its first weekend of release.</p><br clear="all"/>
Polish Holocaust heroine in Hollywood movie
(Reuters)
Reuters - A Polish World War Two
heroine whose efforts to save about 2,500 Jewish children were
largely covered up after the war, will finally have her story
brought to the screen.
More movies to be offered in 3-D
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070409/ap_en_mo/3_d_movies"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070408/capt.4b4b4843e3a4438c8e90cb4a694b1dda.3d_movies_nyol217.jpg?x=130&y=71&sig=gC_WohRrH2kuiP5RZ4IYwA--" align="left" height="71" width="130" alt="This photo provided by Disney shows members of the Robinson family in 'Meet the Robinsons.' The film debuted March 30, 2007 earning $25.1 million (euoros 18.8 million) in its opening weekend. More than a quarter of that revenue came from the 581 screens across the country that showed the film in 3-D, the company said. (AP Photo/Disney)" border="0" /></a>AP - For real — or at least the cinematic version of real: 3-D.</p><br clear="all"/>
Retailers explore movie download options
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070409/ap_en_mo/online_movies"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070408/capt.fb1aaa0fa4a64843a9172d1a37e67ab6.online_movies_nyol219.jpg?x=130&y=85&sig=NznF.QPatmd7.5_62nzIuQ--" align="left" height="85" width="130" alt="Shoppers look at DVDs at a Best Buy store in Minnetonka, Minn., March 26, 2007, as employee James Hilgers, left, works in the DVD section. The shift of music online has hurt stores such as Best Buy, Wal-Mart and Circuit City, and some retailers are looking to avoid a repeat with movies. Wal-Mart has launched its own movie download service, Best Buy is said to be in talks to start one, and Blockbuster explored buying movie download company Movielink earlier this year. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)" border="0" /></a>AP - When movies shifted from videocassettes to DVD, retailers simply cleared the tapes off the shelves to make room for discs. That's not so easy now that movies appear poised to follow music onto the Internet.</p><br clear="all"/>
Imus set for Sharpton's radio show
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070409/ap_en_mo/imus_protests"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070406/capt.2749a4b9bffc4f34897940bbc398f377.imus_apology_nyr103.jpg?x=97&y=130&sig=ayT3n3hsqyzAh_S2IKQs4Q--" align="left" height="130" width="97" alt="Nationally syndicated radio personality Don Imus speaks at the Radio and Television Correspondents Association dinner in Washington in this file photo of March 21, 1996. Imus apologized Friday, April 6, 2007, for making racially charged comments about the Rutgers University women's basketball team after the National Association of Black Journalists called for his immediate firing. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - Don Imus will appear on the Rev. Al Sharpton's radio show on Monday, five days after Imus made racially charged comments his own show about the Rutgers women's basketball team, Sharpton and MSNBC announced Sunday.</p><br clear="all"/>
'Blades' grinds out a 2nd week at No. 1
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070409/ap_en_mo/box_office"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070407/capt.5943ab1b873845faa82fb9fba716ac46.people_ferrell_ny112.jpg?x=93&y=130&sig=4PCELhADwReOLSWFDGt2Cg--" align="left" height="130" width="93" alt="Actor Will Ferrell smiles during his appearance on the NBC 'Today' television program in New York, in a Monday March 26, 2007 photo. Shooting for a new Will Ferrell sports comedy begins in Michigan later this month. Crews plan location shots this spring for 'Semi-Pro,' a comedy that stars Ferrell as player, coach and owner of a Flint-based team in the 1970s American Basketball Association who is trying to get into the NBA. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, file)" border="0" /></a>AP - Movie audiences were more interested in light comedy over Easter weekend than in Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's "Grindhouse," a double-feature ode to bloody exploitation flicks.</p><br clear="all"/>
Staunton: 'Potter' role is no joke
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070408/ap_en_mo/people_staunton"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070408/capt.855b6bd975294dc78868f372dd4f44e7.people_staunton_ny113.jpg?x=86&y=130&sig=okOYXFf1K_X4NPxVtd11aQ--" align="left" height="130" width="86" alt="Imelda Staunton, nominated for outstanding performance by a female actor in a leading role for her work in 'Vera Drake,' arrives for the 11th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards in a Saturday, Feb. 5, 2005 photo, in Los Angeles. Oscar nominee Imelda Staunton wasn't exactly flattered when a friend first suggested she'd be perfect for the part of Harry Potter's first female villian, Dolores Umbridge. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, file)" border="0" /></a>AP - Oscar nominee Imelda Staunton wasn't exactly flattered when a friend first suggested she'd be perfect for the part of Harry Potter's first female nemesis, Dolores Umbridge.</p><br clear="all"/>
Blades Grinds Up Grindhouse
(E! Online)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/eonline/20070408/en_movies_eo/6ba2e16e8063_4136_ac08_ceabb0452396"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/eonline/20070409/capt.61beca0d52819bf71c64acb6ec480b4c.jpg?x=130&y=93&sig=gg1kuCgfZvwtYlspe5A_5w--" align="left" height="93" width="130" alt="Blades Grinds Up Grindhouse(E! Online)" border="0" /></a>E! Online - Apparently, the Easter bunny and machine gun-legged women don't mix.</p><br clear="all"/>
Diverse spring tours target college kids
(Reuters)
Reuters - Stress runs rampant among college
kids this time of year, but the Door to Dorm tour, the College
Mega tour and Campus Invasion Music Festival are aiming to give
students some springtime musical relief.
Mexican rock act Kinky lands sweet soccer spots
(Reuters)
Reuters - Genre-busting Mexican band Kinky
has earned critical acclaim and a following among hipsters on
both sides of the border.
Vocal ensemble Chanticleer takes a Mass-ive step
(Reuters)
Reuters - Contemporary composers are often
recruited to write new music for celebrated San Francisco-based
vocal ensemble Chanticleer.
Esa-Pekka Salonen to leave L.A. Philharmonic
(Reuters)
Reuters - Finnish-born conductor Esa-Pekka
Salonen, who helped make the Los Angeles Philharmonic into one
of the leading U.S. orchestras, will leave as music director at
the end of the 2008-09 season, the Los Angeles Times reported
on Sunday.
U.K. indie ramps up roster with online discoveries
(Reuters)
Reuters - So what's a string of shows and
positive press at last month's South by Southwest music
conference in Austin worth to a budding act?
Review: Swenson gets warm Met reception
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070409/ap_en_mu/opera_giulio_cesare"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070408/capt.84ec5bed24fb4bbba77c2ba24326afdb.opera_giulio_cesare_nyr101.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=v7LGODF849tscTDeqY1x1A--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="In this photo supplied by the Metropolitan Opera, Ruth Ann Swenson performs in the final dress rehearsal of 'Giulio Cesare' in New York Tuesday, April 3, 2007. Swenson received rapturous applause on Friday April 6 following her performance as Cleopatra in the revival of Handel's opera. She was coming off chemotherapy treatment for breast cancer, and a day earlier she was quoted in The New York Times as saying she felt the Met was phasing her out. Four of her nine performances as Violetta next season have been taken away and given to Renee Fleming, she said. (AP Photo/Metropolitan Opera, Marty Sohl)" border="0" /></a>AP - NEW YORK (AP) — Criticizing management has its rewards.</p><br clear="all"/>
Cellist Ma: Cultural mixing essential
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070408/ap_en_mu/people_ma"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070408/capt.dbfb43924b1643cb8c29555d8df5058d.people_ma_nyol223.jpg?x=130&y=87&sig=lXNTl8oalM9htjGxWixvbg--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="Cellist Yo-Yo Ma speaks to music students during a workshop at Tel Aviv University, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Tuesday, May 23, 2006. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - The notion of cultural purity is a dead end, said famed cellist Yo-Yo Ma, who was born in Paris to Chinese parents and came to the United States as a child prodigy.</p><br clear="all"/>
Virtual museum sustains N. England music
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070408/ap_en_mu/apn_new_england_music"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070408/capt.b29ef4e626cf446db70f512d6d11de83.new_england_music_nyol221.jpg?x=130&y=82&sig=WZsKjRnRAOHqbF.Ds7U_0Q--" align="left" height="82" width="130" alt="Steve Nelson displays the online Music Museum of New England on a computer monitor at his home in Washington, Mass., Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2007. A handful of guys with deep roots in the region's music scene have set up a Web site to celebrate some of the area's greatest artists, with the goal to one day open a bricks and mortar museum. (AP Photo/Stephen Rose)" border="0" /></a>AP - From the power chords of Aerosmith to the jazz beats of Roy Haynes and the funky dance rhythms of the Tavares, New England has been home to a diverse and vibrant music scene for decades.</p><br clear="all"/>
L.A. orchestra's maestro to step down
(AP)
AP - The Los Angeles Philharmonic's music director, Esa-Pekka Salonen, announced Sunday he will step down at the end of the 2008-2009 season to concentrate on composing.
Kings of Leon take UK number one album crown
(Reuters)
Reuters - The Kings of Leon were crowned number
one in the British album charts on Sunday with their new
release "Because Of The Times."
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