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Post by HARD ROCK UNIVERSE on Aug 28, 2006 13:21:23 GMT -5
BEIJING (Aug. 28) - A woman in Hohhot, the capital of north China's Inner Mongolia region, crashed her car while giving her dog a driving lesson, the official Xinhua News Agency said Monday.
No injuries were reported although both vehicles were slightly damaged, it said.
The woman, identified only be her surname, Li, said her dog "was fond of crouching on the steering wheel and often watched her drive," according to Xinhua.
"She thought she would let the dog 'have a try' while she operated the accelerator and brake," the report said. "They did not make it far before crashing into an oncoming car."
Xinhua did not say what kind of dog or vehicles were involved but Li paid for repairs.
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Post by HARD ROCK UNIVERSE on Aug 24, 2006 22:43:39 GMT -5
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Post by HARD ROCK UNIVERSE on Aug 21, 2006 9:50:27 GMT -5
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Post by HARD ROCK UNIVERSE on Aug 11, 2006 10:28:06 GMT -5
Happy Belated Birthday Rush Cool that it was a great day
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Post by HARD ROCK UNIVERSE on Aug 9, 2006 9:51:05 GMT -5
SAN RAFAEL, Calif. - Mario Cipollina, a founding member of Huey Lewis & the News, has pleaded not guilty to felony counts of heroin and methamphetamine possession, court officials said.
Cipollina, 51, who played bass in the band, entered the plea Monday. He was being held in the Marin County jail without bail because the charges violated the terms of his probation for previous felony burglary and petty theft convictions, said Deputy District Attorney Linda Witong.
Cipollina was due back in court Aug. 21. He could face more than four years in prison if convicted, Witong said.
Sheriff's investigators allegedly found small amounts of the drugs in Cipollina's pocket during a random probation search at his home in Santa Venetia, said Sgt. Jerry Jones.
His probation stemmed from an August 2004 arrest for stealing about $5,500 worth of radio control cars from a San Anselmo store. While searching his residence, police allegedly found two automatic weapons, including an M-60 machine gun. Felony gun possession charges were later dismissed.
In September 1996, he was arrested after Novato police said they found heroin, methamphetamine, a knife and a revolver in his possession during a traffic stop.
Huey Lewis & the News had a string of hits in the 1980s, including "The Power of Love" and "I Want a New Drug."
Cipollina left the band in 1994.
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Post by HARD ROCK UNIVERSE on Aug 7, 2006 10:49:37 GMT -5
FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP, N.J. - A 15-year-old girl accidentally struck and killed her mother while being taught how to parallel park, police said.
Tina Rowe, 39, died Saturday after being pinned under a 1997 Chevy Cavalier driven by her daughter. Police believed the girl may have hit the gas pedal instead of the brake.
Police said the teen won’t face criminal charges.
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Post by HARD ROCK UNIVERSE on Aug 2, 2006 15:33:33 GMT -5
A Sudanese man has been forced to take a goat as his "wife", after he was caught having sex with the animal. The goat's owner, Mr Alifi, said he surprised the man with his goat and took him to a council of elders.
They ordered the man, Mr Tombe, to pay a dowry of 15,000 Sudanese dinars ($50) to Mr Alifi.
"We have given him the goat, and as far as we know they are still together," Mr Alifi said.
Mr Alifi, Hai Malakal in Upper Nile State, told the Juba Post newspaper that he heard a loud noise around midnight on 13 February and immediately rushed outside to find Mr Tombe with his goat.
"When I asked him: 'What are you doing there?', he fell off the back of the goat, so I captured and tied him up".
Mr Alifi then called elders to decide how to deal with the case.
"They said I should not take him to the police, but rather let him pay a dowry for my goat because he used it as his wife," Mr Alifi told the newspaper.
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Post by HARD ROCK UNIVERSE on Aug 3, 2006 0:05:05 GMT -5
Guess that dog wouldn't agree that Elvis was the King of Rock What the hell was a dog doing in a museum anyway?
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Post by HARD ROCK UNIVERSE on Aug 2, 2006 14:59:00 GMT -5
LONDON, England (AP) -- A guard dog has ripped apart a collection of rare teddy bears, including one once owned by Elvis Presley, during a rampage at a children's museum.
"He just went berserk," said Daniel Medley, general manager of the Wookey Hole Caves near Wells, England, where hundreds of bears were chewed up Tuesday night by the 6-year-old Doberman pinscher named Barney.
Barney ripped the head off a brown stuffed bear once owned by the young Presley during the attack, leaving fluffy stuffing and bits of bears' limbs and heads on the museum floor. The bear, named Mabel, was made in 1909 by the German manufacturer Steiff.
The collection, valued at more than $900,000, included a red bear made by Farnell in 1910 and a Bobby Bruin made by Merrythought in 1936.
The bear with Elvis connections was owned by English aristocrat Benjamin Slade, who bought it at an Elvis memorabilia auction in Memphis, Tenn., and had loaned it to the museum.
"I've spoken to the bear's owner and he is not very pleased at all," Medley said.
A security guard at the museum, Greg West, said he spent several minutes chasing Barney before wrestling the dog to the ground.
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Post by HARD ROCK UNIVERSE on Jul 25, 2006 14:53:00 GMT -5
Police in France said they had thwarted an attempt by a group of marijuana smokers to roll the world's longest joint by seizing a work-in-progress measuring 80 centimetres (32 inches) in length.
"At some point, these young people had wanted to craft a joint of 1.12 metres to beat the world record in the discipline and get it officially registered," said a police officer in eastern France.
"We don't know who had the idea. Sometimes ideas are created in an astonishing way," he said.
During an investigation targeting a group of four smokers in the eastern Vosges area of France, police discovered the giant joint containing 70 grams of marijuana resin. It had not been finished because of a lack of tobacco.
One of the smokers of adult age is to appear before a court charged with drug use on October 19. Two minors will appear before a juveniles court on October 6.
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Post by HARD ROCK UNIVERSE on Jul 21, 2006 10:21:42 GMT -5
Happy belated birthday dude! Can't get much better than seeing Joe B on your birthday!! Or any other day for that matter ;D
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Post by HARD ROCK UNIVERSE on Jul 11, 2006 0:32:51 GMT -5
According to Deep-Purple.net, John Coletta — former manager of DEEP PURPLE and WHITESNAKE — died on July 9, 2006. Tony Edwards approached 35-year-old John, managing director of an advertising agency (in an office above his own), to help him launch DEEP PURPLE in late 1967. Coletta remained an integral part of the management of the band through the years 1968 to 1976, often touring with them. After the group split, the two managers set up their own operations but retained their interest in the band's back catalogue. John took on David Coverdale's WHITESNAKE, and managed them for many years. In recent years John lived in Spain, and was involved with concert promotion there until he became ill last year. He had also been working with Derek Lawrence on some record ideas. A photo of Coletta (center) with Jon Lord (then-DEEP PURPLE keyboardist) and Tony Edwards at the time of the "Concerto" in 1969 can be viewed at this location.
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Post by HARD ROCK UNIVERSE on Jun 23, 2006 8:59:18 GMT -5
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Post by HARD ROCK UNIVERSE on Jun 21, 2006 20:36:30 GMT -5
KIEV (Reuters) - A man shouting that God would keep him safe was mauled to death by a lioness in Kiev zoo after he crept into the animal's enclosure, a zoo official said on Monday.
"The man shouted 'God will save me, if he exists', lowered himself by a rope into the enclosure, took his shoes off and went up to the lions," the official said.
"A lioness went straight for him, knocked him down and severed his carotid artery."
The incident, Sunday evening when the zoo was packed with visitors, was the first of its kind at the attraction. Lions and tigers are kept in an "animal island" protected by thick concrete blocks.
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Post by HARD ROCK UNIVERSE on Jun 15, 2006 10:31:15 GMT -5
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Post by HARD ROCK UNIVERSE on Jun 6, 2006 1:00:07 GMT -5
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Sick and tired of souped-up cars with loud engines and pulsing music? Barry Manilow may be the answer.
Officials in one Sydney district have decided to pipe the American crooner's music over loudspeakers in an attempt to rid streets and car parks of hooligans whose anti-social cars and loud music annoy residents and drive customers from businesses.
Following a successful experiment where Bing Crosby music was used to drive teenage loiterers out of an Australian shopping center several years ago, Rockdale councilors believe Manilow is so uncool it might just work.
Councilor Bill Saravinovski said local authorities plan to install a loudspeaker and pipe in Manilow music, interspersed with classical pieces, over a car park favored by car "hoons," or hooligans.
"There are restaurants nearby and people can't park in the car park because they're intimidated by these hoons," Saravinovski told The Daily Telegraph newspaper Monday.
"Daggy music is one way to make the hoons leave an area because they can't stand the music," he said.
The Oxford Concise Australian Dictionary defines "daggy" as unfashionable, or lacking style, even eccentric or stupid.
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Post by HARD ROCK UNIVERSE on Jun 6, 2006 11:05:36 GMT -5
I ouldn't care less about whether this woman did porn or not. (You know where we can check it out? ) Since they have had no kids together or anything, she won't get too much. She's really not entitled to the what he amassed the 40 years before they were together. She'll get enough though, although probably not as much as she's asking. She only has one leg to stand on
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Post by HARD ROCK UNIVERSE on Jun 6, 2006 0:55:50 GMT -5
Pornographic photos of Paul McCartney's estranged wife, Heather Mills, have surfaced in the British tabloid The Sun and on newspaper's website, www.thesun.co.uk. The photos were taken for a hardcore German book titled Die Freuden Der Liebe--The Joys Of Love in 1988, five years before the motorcycle accident in which Mills lost one of her legs. The extremely explicit photographs reveal Mrs. McCartney posing nude, slathered with baby oil, as she engages in sexual acts with an unnamed male porn star. Other photos involve handcuffs and other bondage gear, strawberries and cream, and sex toys. Heather and Paul McCartney announced last month that they were ending their four-year marriage. The former Beatle has since taken great pains to defend his future ex-wife, insisting that she is not a gold-digger as the media has claimed. (Heather could win as much as $400 million in a divorce settlement, as the couple had no prenuptial agreement in place.) The Sun did not report if Paul McCartney had yet commented on the photos
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Post by HARD ROCK UNIVERSE on Jun 1, 2006 9:48:45 GMT -5
CHAMBLEE, Ga. - After attending more than 100 Widespread Panic concerts, Julie Stevens knew what she was talking about when she said a show this month at Atlanta’s Fox Theater was different.
“You can see a lot better and you can hear the music and there’s no smoke,” said Stevens, 27, of Atlanta, during a break between sets. “That’s cool because it’s been a long time since I’ve seen them up close.”
The difference? Stevens was watching this concert live on a big screen 12 miles away from the Fox at a movie theater in this Atlanta suburb.
Widespread Panic, the jam band from Athens, Ga., that has built a massive following based on the strength and carnival atmosphere of its live shows, joins acts like the Rolling Stones, Bon Jovi and Green Day who in the past year-and-a-half have rolled out concerts simulcast on big screens offsite. Sometimes way, way offsite.
Combining rock shows and movie theaters is an idea at least as old as 1970’s “Woodstock,” the movie version of the previous year’s legendary three-day festival. But advances in technology are making it easier to pull off events like the May 9 Widespread Panic show — when the concert was beamed live to 114 theaters around the country, from California to Florida.
National yet personal? And an increasingly competitive marketplace is making the special events attractive for bands looking to reach new audiences and offer something special for their existing fans.
“The artists, the managers, the promoters ... have all come to see there is a terrific value in bringing their music to movie-theater screens so fans can gather together to see them nationally — but in a very local and personal way,” said Dan Diamond, vice president of digital programming for Big Screen Concerts.
The Denver-based company is jointly owned by three of the world’s biggest movie theater chains — AMC, Cinemark and Regal — and has the capacity to broadcast concerts and other special events in as many as 850 theaters nationwide. Other companies have occasionally simulcasted concerts, but not as frequently and to as many theaters as Big Screen Concerts.
The company kicked off by offering recorded performances by bands like KISS, Rush and the Grateful Dead in 2003. But with changes in technology, the number of live simulcasts has steadily increased in the past two years.
Big Screen broadcast 21 concerts in 2004, including Phish, Jimmy Buffett and Prince, and 10 last year. They’ve done six already this year — most recently a May 16 show by Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour.
Tickets range from $10 to $20, depending on the group and whether the event is live or, as in still a few cases, recorded. And most concerts are scheduled for weeknights — when the vast majority of movie theater seats are typically empty.
“Clearly, we’re primarily focusing on nontraditional, non-peak nights,” Diamond said. “We’re not trying to compete with our core movie business.”
The company’s most successful event was a simulcast of the last concert by jam rockers Phish. About 40,000 tickets were sold for the August 2004 show.
Widespread Panic vocalist John Bell said simulcasting a concert allows the usually hard-touring group to still reach out to fans without the rigors of an extended tour.
He also called it a chance for the band, formed in 1986, to continue a tradition of exploration that has kept music-making exciting for the group’s members after two decades.
“The kids buy into the novelty of it, just the way we do,” said Bell, hours before their recent simulcast show. “It’s a new way to have that concert experience with your friends in your hometown — and you get to buy popcorn.”
Buck Williams, the group’s manager and agent, sees a different upside to the simulcasts in movie theaters. He said an estimated 25 million to 40 million people would see the band’s name on posters, trailers or other theater promotions for the concert event.
The Fox Theater May 9 broadcast marked the first time Widespread Panic performed in concert all the songs from “Earth to America,” its new album due for release June 13. The show also featured songs performed with full brass and string sections — which Bell said the band never would be able to bring along for an extended tour.
At Hollywood Stadium 24 in nearby Chamblee, a couple dozen fans geared up for the show by tailgating in the parking lot — lounging in lawn chairs and drinking cans of beer from coolers, as Widespread music blared from their car stereos.
When the band tore into “Pigeons,” a driving, groove-based rocker and the second song of their first set, the movie theater audience hooted and cheered. Pockets of fans danced in the aisles and in the back of the theater as others were content to sit in place — albeit cheering and clapping at the end of each song and, in some cases, even shouting out requests at the screen.
Several fans said they were enjoying themselves, but didn’t feel the same energy they feel when attending a concert in person.
“It’s nice seeing things I don’t normally see and hearing things I don’t normally hear,” said Jarett Bellini, 27, of Atlanta, who has seen the band live about five times. “That being said, I’d still rather be at the Fox.”
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Post by HARD ROCK UNIVERSE on Jun 1, 2006 9:43:42 GMT -5
CONCORD, N.C. - Those rumors about an on-screen reunion of Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong? Reefer madness, Marin says.
The 59-year-old actor — half of the Cheech & Chong comedy duo that embodied 1970s and 1980s marijuana humor — said there will be no future joint efforts with Chong.
“We’ve tried to do it a bunch of times and we always end up at the same place,” Marin said during a recent press tour to promote the new animated film “Cars,” set for release June 9. “All the old animosities resurface.”
In “Cars,” Marin voices Ramon, a vintage low-rider who befriends lead character Lightning McQueen (Owen Wilson).
“I’m real comfortable leaving Cheech & Chong right where it is,” Marin said. “I was a big Laurel & Hardy fan when I was a kid. I used to watch them on TV all the time and then one time I saw a Laurel & Hardy film they made when they were a lot older and it creeped me out. I just never wanted to do that.”
Marin said voicing roles in animated films such as “Oliver & Company,” “FernGully: The Last Rainforest” and “The Lion King” has given his career a second act. His screen credits also include roles in the “Spy Kids” movies and the TV series “Nash Bridges.”
“That was always a point of conflict with Tommy and I,” he said. “I wanted to kind of keep moving and do other stuff and he wanted to stay at that same thing. My natural inclination was to keep moving.”
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