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Free admission, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; family activities, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., Seattle Asian Art Museum, Volunteer Park, 1400 E. Prospect St., Seattle (206-654-3100 or www.seattleartmuseum.org). Kent Kids' Arts Day Hands-on art projects for ages 4-14, entertainment; 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Kent Commons, 525 Fourth Ave. N., Kent; $10/children, adults and kids under age 2 free (253-856-5050 or www.kentarts .com). Insect Safari Information and bug-collection display for ages 4 and older, 1 p.m., Kent Regional Library, 212 Second Ave. N., Kent (253-859-3330). Rollin' Rails Operating-model-railroad show for kids of all ages with hands-on layouts, Lego trains, scale layouts, by Swamp Creek and Western Railroad Association, 11 a.m.-4 p.m., Edgewood Baptist Church, 20406 76th Ave.
Omnifone Collaborates with Musiwave for MusicStation next ...
Omnifone, a UK-based mobile music company, today announced a collaboration with Musiwave, an Openwave company (NASDAQ: OPWV), the leading provider of mobile music entertainment services to operators and media companies worldwide, to distribute MusicStation, a revolutionary all-you-can-eat mobile music service, that works on all major music handsets. For a fee of only £1.99 per week* MusicStation provides subscribers with unlimited localised Over the Air (OTA) downloads to their mobiles from Musiwave’s end-to-end music platform. "Working with Omnifone enables us to complement our existing end-to-end service suite with a differentiating mobile music subscription service that works over the air and links with our music platform," commented Guillaume Decugis, vice president, Musiwave.
Society pays a high price to be entertained
People are in the throes of complicating their lives. They do not understand the benefits of, in God's word, living upright.
Since man does not live on an island unto himself, our lives do touch one another. All of society is affected by bad behavioral choices made by others.
Too often, those who have been given much squander their own lives before our eyes with devastating effects. Celebrity worship is bad for moral health, especially for vulnerable children and young adults.
Some celebrity behavior is not worthy of emulation. However, unfortunately, we can use their lives as teaching tools of what happens when people allow their lives to become totally undone.
It does not matter whether you understand the reason American's are influenced by stardom.
Fans snatch up pricey tickets to catch Korean pop star Rain in City
Over 70 per cent of the tickets for Korean pop star Rains concerts in HCM City on March 10-11 have been snapped up already with local newspapers describing it as unprecedented. The 4,000 best seats, each of them priced at VND2.5 million (US$156), were sold out by last week. Organisers of Rains shows, Viet Nams D&D Advertising Company and Koreas Enterone Entertainment Company, decided early this week to increase the number of tickets for each show from 20,000 to 24,000. Rain, also known as Bi, will perform as part of his Rain World Tour 06-07 and his foreign fans have bought some of the most expensive tickets. Over 1,000 Japanese fans have even booked rooms at the New World Hotel where Rain will check in on March 7. The superstar, one of the best-known male singers in Asia, will sing 19 Korean and English pop songs at each concert on what will be his second tour of Viet Nam.
Anna Nicole Smith Laid To Rest, At Least For Now
(March 2, 2007)—One-time Mexia resident Anna Nicole Smith was laid to rest Friday next to the grave of her 20-year-old son Daniel in the Bahamas, but the battle over her remains may not be over yet. A lawyer for her estranged mother says Virgie Arthur may continue her efforts to bury her daughter in Texas. The former centerfold has been at the center of a series of legal battles since her death on Feb. 8 in a hotel room in Florida. Friday a white hearse carried her body to a simple graveside service in the Bahamas, after a Baptist Church funeral that was a portrait in pink. There were pink roses on the pews and a rhinestone-studded pink blanket on the casket of the reality TV star who loved the color. Hundreds of fans cried out "Anna, Anna!" outside the church.
Magazines start studios to join online video craze
Add Time Inc. and TV Guide to the ranks of major magazine publishers looking to take advantage of public's fast-growing fascination with videos on the Internet. Time Inc. is launching an in-house studio to help its 130 magazines develop videos for the Web. Along with that plan, it will unveil a deal to work with Brightcove, a leading provider of Internet video production, distribution and ad sales services. The developments are designed to dramatically increase video offerings - starting with Time.com and closely followed by sites for other popular titles including Fortune, Money, Sports Illustrated and Entertainment Weekly. "We have at our disposal now a broad range of approaches for storytelling," says Time Inc. Interactive President Ned Desmond. "The biggest challenge for us is to understand how to use all of those different things well and to engage consumers that way." One thing the magazines plan to do right off is shine a spotlight on their most popular columnists.
Digital media to be focus of TechSouth Conference
Technology used for entertainment as well as the office will have a prominent place at this year's TechSouth Summit and Exposition. Organizers announced Friday that the first-ever International Digital In-Development Expo will be held in conjunction with TechSouth in May at the Cajundome Convention Center. The iDiDx, as it is referred to, will bring all aspects of digital media - from movies and music to video games and animation - to the annual technology summit. .
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