Engadget:
It's been well over a year since we published our take on Yamaha's perplexing, beautiful and all-around intriguing Tenori-On concept, and evidently the masses have spoken out. This week, the company announced that it will soon be shipping a "more affordable" version with the name Tenori-On 'Orange,' with some vendors alread (Read More)
LA Times:
Richard Sherman co-wrote the music that made the Disney film soar. He also lent a hand with the stage musical coming to L.A. If Mary Poppins had a pied-à-terre in L.A., it would probably look something like Richard Sherman's home in Bever (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
In 1906 John Philip Sousa criticized the gramophone saying, "These talking machines will ruin the artistic development of music in this country." Nevertheless, because Sousa did not forsee user-generated culture proliferating alongside "mechanical music" he could not have been further from the truth. Not only have machine t (Read More)
CNN:
Illiteracy to Literature in the Enlightened South - Part I By NEAL MOORE OXFORD, MISSISSIPPI (CNN iReport) Known as the home of Nobel Prize-winning author William Faulkner, the University of Mississippi, and one of the finest independent book stores in the nation, Square Books, it came as a shock to learn Lafayette County’s (Read More)
Gizmodo:
The Tenori-On remains one of the most eye-catching, hypnotizing ways to make music, and Yamaha has a cheaper model coming in January. Problem is, it'll actually cost the same as the superior original does now. Confusing? Let me explain: The original (Tenori-On W) was $1200 when it arrived last year, but the official U.S. (Read More)
New York Times:
Mr. D’Lugoff’s nightclub, the Village Gate, was home to performers as celebrated, and diverse, as Duke Ellington, Allen Ginsberg and John Belushi.
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New York Times:
In “Itutu” at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on Wednesday, Ms. Armitage drags dance a few decades into the past, with her combination of ballet and African dance.
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VentureBeat:
Slide, which started in photo-sharing, moved into Facebook widgets and then raised funding at a reported $550 million valuation last year, shifted gears this year and went aggressively into virtual goods. The company’s looking to become a mainstream version of Second Life, where there’s a virtual economy at work of real pe (Read More)
Gizmodo:
When Apple TV 3.0 came out, we were unimpressed. Readers asked what else they could use to play their many videos. Here are five nice ones to suit different needs—nearly all cost less, and do more, than ATV. The goal here is simple: Play all the videos that I have ripped from DVD, downloaded from the web, shot with my own c (Read More)
Huffington Post:
Update 11/5:Last night the first family--the president, first lady, Malia, Sasha, and First Granny Marian Robinson--hosted an evening of classical music in the East Room of the White House. Judging from the pictures, actor Ed Norton, senior adviser David Axelrod and Secretary of Veteran Affairs Eric Shinseki were also there (Read More)
Crunch Gear:
Yamaha launched its so-called Tenori-on, an electronic musical instrument with a built-in sound module, in 2007 for a recommended retail price of $1,200. The device, which consists of a touch screen and lets you play music by running your fingers over a 256 LED grid, is being sold world-wide, but the price is obviously a pr (Read More)
Gizmodo:
Seriously, how messed up is this. Al Shabaab insurgents in Somalia (Al Qaeda's proxy in the region) are going around flogging teenagers for listening to music and watching videos on their phones. Not to mention the senseless killings and amputations. Fighting has killed almost 20,000 Somalis since 2007, and though some semb (Read More)
Gizmodo:
Before David Pogue wrote his review of the Droid, he had trouble deciding what to call the device. He argued that "smartphone" is an outdated label for the iPhone-like devices coming out and so he looked for a new one. Our Jason Chen discussed this issue in the past and coined the term "com," but here's Pogue's take: What (Read More)
Gizmodo:
If there's one wonderful thing about the newly announced Olympus E-P2, it's that it will probably make the E-P1 cheaper. If there are two or more wonderful things...well, read on. The Olympus E-P2 is less a sequel to the E-P1 micro four thirds camera and more a refinement of the original idea. It's basically the same size a (Read More)