The Year My Parents Went on Vacation - movie review

If you were a ten-year-old boy in 1970 Brazil, you had one thing on your judgment: The
Brazilian football association football team acting in the World Cup. But for young Mauro (Michel
Joelsas), his exhilaration for Pel� is overshadowed by his parents' departure.



In that historic year, the Brazilian population wasn't just united by one the greatest
soccer teams ever assembled. It was likewise dealing with increasingly belligerent activity
by a absolutism eager to arrest whatsoever non-conformists. So while Mauro collects nat
ional squad trading cards and plays out matches with his tabletop soccer game, his
parents

Nbc - Ge Shares Plunge Analysts Urge Nbc Spin-off

Shares of Universal NBC parent General Electric plunged to their lowest point in
five years Monday after JPMorgan analyst C. Stephen Tusa cut his rating of GE stock
to neutral. Tusa, a longtime booster of GE stock, acknowledged that he was wrong
in his assessment of the company's performance. GE has been under pressure to spin
off its entertainment units, with analysts maintaining that GE chief Jeffrey Immelt
has little understanding of the business. Among other complaints, some critics say
that the company's strategy to remake its MSNBC cable channel into a platform for highly
opinionated broadcasters on the left, while improving the channel's ratings, is tarnishing
NBC News's reputation for balance and restraint.

17/06/2008

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Naomi Campbell lashes out at fashion industry

Supermodel Naomi Campbell has said the fashion industry is more racist than ever and has hit out at the lack of black faces on magazine covers and catwalks.
Speaking to The London Paper, the Streatham-born Campbell said: "Women of colour are not a trend. That's the bottom line. It's a pity that people don't always appreciate black beauty."
She added: "In some instances, black models are being sidelined by major modelling agencies. Fashion needs to go back to the way it used to be when wonderful designers like Yves Saint Laurent, Gianni Versace and Azzedine Alaia had a great line-up of beautiful women - white, black, Chinese, Hispanic."
Campbell, 37, admitted that her supermodel friends helped her career by taking a stand against racism.
"Linda Evangelista and Christy Turlington would go to big designers and say, 'If you don't pick Naomi to be in your show, then I don't want to be in it'", she recalled.
Talking about how she received one of her biggest career breaks in the fashion industry she said: "The only reason I got the cover of French Vogue was because Yves Saint Laurent called up and told them he'd pull his ads if they didn't."
The star spoke out after her former boss admitted racism was still rife in the industry.
Carole White, head of the Premier model agency, who represented Campbell for 17 years, said: "A black girl has to be perfect to get work. The bookers are told, 'Don't send any ethnic girls'."
She added: "I showed a picture of a new black girl to an agent in Milan, and he actually recoiled. He said, 'We don't have black girls in Milan. It's impossible.'"
Speaking about her former client she said: "Black models never make money. Even Naomi Campbell didn't make money like the white girls did, she was always offered less."

Herardo Nunes

   
Artist: Herardo Nunes

   Genre(s): 
Classical
   Folk
   

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Discography:


   
 Calima

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 10


   
 Flamencos En Nueva York

   Year: 1989   
Tracks: 15

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Ordinary Boys singer Preston back with ex?

Mighty Mighty Bosstones expand reunion plans

The Mighty Mighty Bosstones [ tickets ] continue to ramp up their return to active performing status with a new co-headlining run in July with the Dropkick Murphys [ tickets ].The ska/punk outfit, which returned from a three-year hiatus last year and has performed a handful of shows since last fall, will kick off the outing July 7 in Chicago. The Bosstones/Murphys tangle will stick close to home for the two Boston bands on the first part of the tour before closing with two California dates later in July.In August, the Bosstones will handle a slot at the Punk Rocks 2008 festival in Morrison, CO, along with NOFX, Bouncing Souls and others. All of the band's currently scheduled dates are included below.The group hasn't released a full-length album of new material since 2002's "A Jackknife to a Swan," which it toured behind extensively before announcing an indefinite hiatus late the following year. Vocalist Dicky Barrett became the studio announcer for ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live" late-night talk show, while bassist and co-founder Joe Gittleman recorded two albums with his side project, Avoid One Thing, before that band announced its own hiatus.The Bosstones recorded three new songs last year as part of a b-sides and rarities collection, "Medium Rare," which hit stores in December. The new tracks--"This List," "Don't Worry Desmond Dekker" and "The One With the Woes All Over It"--were all recorded last fall following the band's October reunion announcement.

Flobots Fight To Make The World, And Your Cubicle, A Better Place

Flobots Fight To Make The World, And Your Cubicle, A Better Place

You likely already acknowledge this, but "Handlebars" — the now-ubiquitous rock-radio

Mark Ronson label teams with Interscope

Mark Ronson label teams with Interscope

Newly York -- Manufacturer Mark Ronson has partnered with Interscope to
spread his Allido Records label. The first fruit of the roast
venture volition be an album from Washington-based MC Wale.

The go-go-influenced MC made a call for himself with the Internet
track "Nike Boots" featuring Lil Anthony Wayne and the mixtapes "Scion A/V
Presents: Wale vs. 45 Male monarch" and "C Miles & Running."

The doorknocker is besides prepping for release next calendar month "A Mixtape About
Cypher," inspired completely by the TV show "Seinfeld." Included
amid the music is a skit featuring an visual aspect by show principal Julia
Louis-Dreyfus.

Wale's as-yet-untitled debut is slated for outlet this year. "Weal
created his possess seethe," Allido co-owner Rich people Kleiman said. "He took
what he created in his hometown and became this unspoken prodigal
boy of Washington D.C., D.C. Everyone from Jay-Z to RCA sabbatum with Wheal
and loved him. Nix from D.C. has worked before, just Strake has
the core sound of D.C. with the commercial message appeal of
hip-hop."

Allido launched in 2004 as an freelance imprint. The troupe has
released several albums and served as music supervisor on a
compilation series for the Hard Rock Hotel Group and several films,
including the Academy Award-nominated "Half Nelson." But death year,
Ronson's fame grew exponentially after he produced Amy Winehouse's
multiple Grammy Award-winning "Back to Joseph Black" record album, which earned
him a producer of the class prize.