All the hot entertainment acts get to play The White House. It’s the equivalent of a Royal Command Performance.
Telegraph.co.uk video of Mumford and Sons at The White House
So when British Prime Minister Cameron showed up for a tent show on March 14th, President Obama invited the hottest British act – Mumford and Sons.
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Avatar 3D on Panasonic HDTV (click or larger image)
There is nothing in home theatre that compares with the excitement of watching a 3D movie.
Your next TV may be a 3D capable set, despite the naysayers in the media.
3D picture quality is superb and active 3D glasses are no longer a barrier to the 3D effect. Continue reading
When you subsidize an organization, it has no reason to be competitive. That’s the CBC.They are not really trying to keep up with the times.
The CBC Radio 3 Bucky Awards is a great idea to promote Canadian talent. Unfortunately Radio 3 don’t have the time or initiative to make their web page compatible with mobile devices that most of the audience use. Continue reading
22 Minutes Movember contest - Olivia Chow with what's his name (photo Facebook)
I was splitting my sides laughing after this week’s episode of 22 Minutes
The show is getting funnier despite being in its thousandth season. Eat your heart out Carl Reiner.
Flushed with optimism, I jumped on my computer and entered their Facebook Movember contest.
It’s one of those crazy things you do for fun not the prize. Grow a mustache and take your picture. Continue reading
PBS Guthrie Theatre HMS Pinafore
HMS Pinafore, Gilbert and Sullivan’s most popular and comedic operetta, kicks off the fall season at PBS today.
The satiric comment on British mores for pomp circumstance and class idiocy gets a broad and bawdy performance by the company at the Guthrie Theatre.
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Living in the Material World
Three versions of documentary will release on October 10, 2011 but only in UK and EU, pity!
Beatles and George Harrison fans will able to get three versions of Martin Scorsese’s documentary: DVD, Blu-Ray and Deluxe Edition Blu-Ray. Unless your player is all-regions you’re out of luck.
For North American fans, that source is not going to work since both the DVD and Blu-Ray formats are restricted to the UK, Europe, the ,Middle East and South Africa. The Blu-Ray disk will also play in Greenland, French territories, Africa, Australia and New Zealand. Continue reading
In a story entitled Ebert closes TED conference with emotional talk – and a laugh, CNN secretly calls the moment at the TED conference “ugly.”
Thanks CNN for perpetuating the discrimination against people with disabilities as “ugly” when they look different.
How do I know? Check out the original title for the story which is found in the permalink – roger-ebert-closes-ted-conference-on-ugly-note
That’s what Richard Galant, the writer who set the story up in WordPress, called his draft. Then he published the story with that ugly title. Continue reading