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Elvis Stojko, a two-time Olympic silver medalist, released the first single from his new album "100 Lifetimes" yesterday. It marks the beginning of the skating champion's music career.
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Every year at Halloween Taxi cab drivers on the Las Vegas Strip are paid a visit from ghosts from the Sin Cities past and get a fright on all hallows night.
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Yves Saint Laurent, the French fashion icon who passed away in June 2008 of brain cancer at age 71, earned more than Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley, Rodgers and Hammerstein, and J.R.R. Tolkien.
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More than 1,500 “axes” ground together to make music in Shreveport, La. Two great songs of Elvis, and memories of Presley, reincarnated with James Burton, his buddies and 1,500+ guitars.
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Step back in time to an era of juke joints, and it’s “White Night” in Natchitoches, Louisiana. Here in Elvis country are the old juke joints, where down-home blues birthed rockabilly music, making Presley its great king.
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Mariah Carey will perform in the intimate setting of the Pearl at the Palms for two separate weekends, one in September and one in October, in Las Vegas.
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The memorial for Michael Jackson featured a star-studded celebrity guest list and gold coffin. The King of Pop would have loved the circus atmosphere of the glitzy event, but he'll be remembered by the image of his crying daughter: "I love him so much".
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Joe Jackson, the father of pop star Michael Jackson is seeing dollar signs in the aftermath of his son's death. In interviews, he's showing his flair for salesmanship by promoting his new record company. Outwardly he shows no signs of grief.
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Lisa Marie Presley declares she and Michael Jackson were in love. She said she left the marriage because of his personal problems and quoted him as saying he would likely die like Elvis.
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Stress kills, science says. Living fast can cause early death, especially with stress added to medical problems or drugs, as with Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett. Like other entertainers and truckers, they lived fast, endured stress and died young.
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Springtime is blues time in Louisiana. The jazz festival took off in New Orleans last weekend. Natchitoches, the little New Orleans, has its own festivities going on throughout April and May. It’s the time of year to get lost in the blues.
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Theatre goers attending the Capital Centre in North Bay, Ontario last evening could be forgiven for thinking that Elvis had come back to life to entertain them.
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Religion has entered the digital world in major ways. Not only are there mega churches in Christianity, but now the Islamic and Jewish groups use the Internet widely. Some of these teach and convert, with moderate views.
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One of the most unique country fiddling pieces, part story, part miracle fiddle-playing turned up in Natchitoches at the jazz festival Saturday. Andre, whom Natchitoches knows by first name, with Serbian roots takes the music of the South and owns it.
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It's spring, and Natchitoches, Louisiana celebrates. The annual jazz festival brought visitors to town Saturday. Sophisticated rhythms, old-time blues, rock and roll and country tunes bounced off the riverbank where jazz ruled again.
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Britney Spears is making magic again. She will be all involved in it as part of her act in March. That magic is performing as a magician's assistant where she will be sawed in half as part of her performance.
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Fossils of 380 million year old fish found in Western Australia indicate sex started earlier than suspected. Seems it was all about the pelvic thrust and these fish were way ahead of Elvis.
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If Elvis lives and perform wedding ceremonies, can’t others whom we admire do the same? Albert Einstein, although dead for more than 50 years, now smiles, looks around and makes eye contact with passersby. Read on and watch the genius sort of at work.
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Elvis Presley was born 74 years and two days ago. Bet a lot of you forgot, didn’t you? But I didn’t, because you see I grew up with the young man, who stays in my mind with that image of eternal youth.
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I’m old enough to remember Elvis Presley and young enough to appreciate Celine Dion. Both together are magic, as critics maintain, and as evidenced in a great video that makes music what it should be—beautiful.
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