| Military draft would be Iraq wake-up call
For once, I agree with Jimmy Reed ("Military draft is worthy of debate," Nov. 30 letter), although I do not see how a secular progressive attitude has anything to do with the draft, as I know quite a few men in the military who do not espouse his Calvinistic version of Christianity. The draft can be a great tool for waking up the American population, which seems to be suffering from some sort of political wasting disease that has resulted in our focus centering on things like Brittney Spears, and other pop garbage, while our men and women fight and die in Iraq. If this country finds it necessary to go to war, the effort should be 100 percent. We should not embark on such endeavors unless the entire population is ready to tighten its belt. Not one American life is worth it, if not solidly behind it.
K-FED FM
Eugene - A local radio station is doing everything it can to get attention, including dedicating it's format solely to a celebrity rapper. For the past year, 94.9 FM has been a news talk radio station. But for the past three days, it's been making waves as K-FED radio. And those are the call letter for wannabe music artist Kevin Federline.The former Mr. Brittney Spears, is also known as rapper K-Fed and 94.9 has been playing his music, nonstop since Tuesday. "We decided Kevin Federline was underrated and we feel like we needed more of him," says owner Steve Masters.The new station has been getting a lot of responses: "Oh him? He's garbage," says Eugene resident Alex White. "We've gotten a lot of call saying, uh what's going on?" Explains Masters.So to find out what's going on, we went to the studios and asked them what happens when people get sick of hearing the same album over and over.
Focusrite confessions from the Madonna tour
UK - More than anything else, the recent Madonna tour was a triumph of technology, with a host of computers behind the scenes controlling everything from lighting to music. But one piece of essential technology, right up front, was a Focusrite Liquid Channel, used by vocal tech Sean Spuehler to help capture Madonna's vocals. Programmer and engineer Sean Spuehler says, "I worked with Madonna in the studio on some of her past albums. She likes her in-ear vocals to sound like the album as much as possible, so it just made sense for someone like myself to mix her vocal sound and effects live. I started doing live gigs with her on the American Life promotional tour, which I guess was an audition of sorts, and ended up doing The Re-Invention world tour in 2004. The latest Confessions World Tour is an extension of that.
Shakira, Marquez launch child poverty foundation in Panama
Washington, Dec 14: Pop star Shakira teamed up with fellow Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez in Panama City on December 12 to launch a child poverty foundation.
The twenty -nine year old Grammy winner and the 78 year old Nobel Laureate launched America Latina en Accion Solidaria (Latin America in Solidarity Action), aimed at fighting poverty in Latin America.
"We all have to do our part to fight against inequality," ContactMusic quoted Shakira, as saying.
The writer emphasised the startling statistics that 350,000 children under 5 die from causes linked to poverty, and 40 million minors work in the street "Latin America has some devastating statistics," he said.
The duo has also gained the support of Spanish singer Miguel Bose - who will serve as executive director.
From 'firecrotch' to Fed-Ex Federline, what we won't miss from 2006
(AP) - The entertainment world in 2006 was enough to make you long for a more genteel time - when ladies only flashed a mere breast to the public, not their entire nether regions. When stars only offered befuddled looks and mussed hair after a DWI - not diatribes from "Mein Kampf." And when you were acquitted of murder, you enjoyed your good luck in relative obscurity - you didn't write about how you would have done it if you did it.
But it seems the good folks in Hollywood have lost their moral centre. Let's hope in 2007, we can get back to better times - like when the paternity of a child was not the source of widespread media speculation, but handled with sensitivity, discretion and an appearance on "Maury."
TRAIN WRECK OF THE YEAR: With all the chemically imbalanced, anorexic and bulimic Hollywood starlets showing their private parts to the world, how to narrow it down to just one lost soul? But it was hard to top the queen of the ick factor, Anna Nicole Smith.
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